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From affiliates and influencers to content publishers, brand ambassadors, and customer advocates, impact.com empowers brands to drive trusted, performance-based growth through authentic relationships. Its award-winning products Performance (affiliate), Creator (influencer), and Advocate (customer referral) unify every type of partner into one integrated platform. As consumers increasingly rely on recommendations from people and communities they trust, impact.com helps brands show up where it matters most. Today, over 5,000 global brands rely on impact.com to power millions of partnerships that deliver measurable business results.\nYour Role atimpact.com :\nWe’re hiring a technical Associate Product Manager for the Action Processing (AP) and Contracting Squad - one of impact.com’s most foundational domains: how brands and partners define terms, commissions, lists, and contract workflows that power revenue on the platform.\nYou’ll partner closely with a Senior Product Manager and Engineering to ship customer value in a complex, data-heavy domain. This is not a “project coordinator” APM role. You’ll write crisp requirements fast, dig into how systems behave, use AI tools as part of how you work, and grow ownership quickly under structured coaching. Relative to a Product Manager role, the emphasis here is strong execution and learning velocity on a focused scope - with ownership and outcome accountability expanding as you prove out.\nTime to value matters. Shape usable Markdown requirements quickly with AI. Speed with rigor is the bar.\nSuccess looks like: clear requirements with short cycle time from ask → draft → eng-ready, strong eng partnership, reliable delivery on your slice, and rising fluency in how Contracting and Action Processing connect to other domains.\nWhat You'll Do:\nYou’ll own focused feature slices with coaching from your Senior PM, with scope expanding as you prove out execution and judgment.\nFeature execution & delivery\nDrive feature development for Action Processing (AP) and Contracting Squad initiatives (e.g. terms/commission behaviors, list and audience rules, contract workflows, and customer-driven requests).\nWrite customer and business requirements (user stories, use cases, acceptance criteria) that engineers can build from without ambiguity.\nPartner with Engineering through build: surface risks, blockers, and acceptance gaps early.\nWrite and iterate Markdown requirements that live adjacent to the GitHub repo (alongside eng context), and co-lead pre-spec and spec reviews - with short time from ambiguous ask to eng-ready draft.\nTechnical fluency & AI-native working\nBuild working understanding of how AP and Contracting systems behave: data flows, edge cases, dependencies, and failure modes.\nUse AI tools and agents as part of your daily craft to compress cycle time - drafting specs, synthesizing research, exploring prototypes, testing edge cases, and accelerating analysis - then validate outputs yourself. The point is faster time to a good requirement, not longer polish loops.\nGet comfortable reading technical context (APIs, schemas, logs, tickets, eng design notes) enough to ask sharp questions and write better requirements.\nProtect engineering focus: clear definition of ready, early pushback on late scope changes, and avoiding rework from unclear requirements.\nSquad partnership & operational excellence\nKeep a clear, healthy backlog for your scope (ticket clarity, prioritization hygiene, meeting facilitation, and request triage).\nSequence and clarify work in partnership with your Senior PM and Engineering leads.\nFacilitate working sessions with Engineering, Design, Customer Success / Technical Services, and adjacent PMs.\nHold regular alignment touchpoints with Product and Engineering leads to keep priorities clear.\nRoadmap, go-to-market & stakeholders\nContribute to clear communication of the squad’s planned roadmap within your scope.\nPartner with your Senior PM and Product Marketing on go-to-market activities for your launches.\nInvolve the right stakeholders; escalate tradeoffs with crisp options.\nContribute near-term input to vision and strategic initiatives in the domain.\nDomain, craft & how we work\nBuild deep fluency in Action Processing (AP) and Contracting domain mechanics and adjacent dependencies.\nDefine and track success metrics for your work; make progress visible to your Senior PM and product leadership.\nBuild stable, trusted working relationships internally; participate actively in team forums.\nDemonstrate impact.com’s Operating Principles consistently (customer focus, ownership, trust, getting the right stuff done, innovate & simplify, get better every day).\nWhat You’ll Bring:\nEarly-career product experience (internships, APM/PM rotation, technical PM adjacent roles, founder/builder experience, or equivalent impact) - or strong evidence you can operate at this level from a technical background.\nDegree in engineering or computer science (or a closely related technical field), with a strong academic record.\nTechnical orientation: you are curious about how systems work, not only how tickets move. Comfortable running basic analyses from source data and using the insights to inform decisions - not only consuming reports others produce.\nAlready using AI tools in real work - drafting, research synthesis, analysis, light prototyping, or workflow automation. We want someone who has started this shift, not someone who treats AI as a novelty.\nFast time to value on requirements: you can get to a solid first draft quickly, iterate with feedback, and avoid over-shaping before eng can react.\nBias to execution: you get the right stuff done. You prioritize ruthlessly, close loops, and ship outcomes over activity.\nExperience writing structured requirements in Markdown (or similar) - user stories, acceptance criteria, lightweight specs - including comfort working near a codebase/GitHub context (coursework, internships, side projects, or prior roles count).\nClear written and verbal communication; ability to turn ambiguous asks into structured requirements and acceptance criteria.\nComfort working with engineers and designers in an agile delivery environment.\nComfort with complex / lightly documented systems and learning by immersion.\nStrong organization and follow-through: you track owners, dates, and open questions without dropping balls.\nCuriosity, coachability, and a bias to learn by doing; you ask good questions and incorporate feedback quickly.\nCustomer empathy: interest in how brands and partners experience contracting, action processing, terms, and monetization workflows.\nNice To Have:\nPersonal projects, prototypes, or scripts you’ve built with AI agents / coding assistants that show you ship, not just discuss.\nExposure to marketplace, fintech, SaaS monetization, contracting, or partner/platform products.\nExperience triaging customer/support requests or working with Customer Success / field teams.\nSalary Range: $85,000 - $95,000 per year, plus an additional 5% variable annual bonus contingent on Company performance and eligible to receive Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) grant. *This is the pay range the Company believes is equitable for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time.\nBenefits and Perks: \nAt impact.com, we believe that when you’re happy and fulfilled, you do your best work. That’s why we’ve built a benefits package that supports your well-being, growth, and work-life balance.\nMedical, Dental, and Vision insurance\nOffice-only catered lunch every Thursday, a healthy snack bar, and great coffee to keep you fueled \nFlexible spending accounts and 401(k)\nFlexible Working: Our Responsible PTO policy means you can take the time off you need to rest and recharge. We're committed to a positive work-life balance and provide a flexible environment that allows you to be happy and fulfilled in both your career and your personal life.\nHealth and Wellness: Your well-being is a priority. Our mental health and wellness benefit includes up to 12 fully covered therapy/coaching sessions per year, with additional dependent coverage. We also offer a monthly gym reimbursement policy to support your physical health.\nA Stake in Our Growth: We offer Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) as part of our total compensation, giving you a stake in the company's growth with a 3-year vesting schedule, pending Board approval.\nInvesting in Your Growth: We’re committed to your continuous learning. Take advantage of our free Coursera subscription and our PXA courses.\nParental Support: We offer a generous parental leave policy, 26 weeks of fully paid leave for the primary caregiver and 13 weeks fully paid leave for the secondary caregiver.\nTechnology Financial Support: We provide a technology stipend to help you set up your home office and a monthly allowance to cover your internet expenses. \nimpact.com is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace. 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