Associate Product Manager (Contracting/Action Processing)

<p><strong>About </strong><a href="http://impact.com"><strong>impact.com</strong></a><strong>:</strong></p> <p><span id="m_3155747505414539622gmail-docs-internal-guid-20eb061a-7fff-8173-6ef0-eaf76dc586da">i<a href="http://mpact.com/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://mpact.com&source=gmail&ust=1792776650377000&usg=AOvVaw1o_gi7SlfyDp34L8L140Fg">mpact.com</a> is the world’s leading commerce partnership marketing platform, transforming the way businesses grow by enabling them to discover, manage, and scale partnerships across the entire customer journey. From affiliates and influencers to content publishers, brand ambassadors, and customer advocates, <a href="http://impact.com/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://impact.com&source=gmail&ust=1792776650377000&usg=AOvVaw0F8ELsmnkRxeeisRLj6Two">impact.com</a> 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, <a href="http://impact.com/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://impact.com&source=gmail&ust=1792776650377000&usg=AOvVaw0F8ELsmnkRxeeisRLj6Two">impact.com</a> helps brands show up where it matters most. Today, over 5,000 global brands - including Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, and Fanatics - rely on <a href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fimpact.com&esheet=54399906&newsitemid=20260120914149&lan=en-US&anchor=impact.com&index=38&md5=c467739484a5a8610aff0747572ac8cb" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id%3Dsmartlink%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fimpact.com%26esheet%3D54399906%26newsitemid%3D20260120914149%26lan%3Den-US%26anchor%3Dimpact.com%26index%3D38%26md5%3Dc467739484a5a8610aff0747572ac8cb&source=gmail&ust=1792776650377000&usg=AOvVaw0R-8X3zYNLJDBBM9amPX2V">impact.com</a> to power more than 350,000 partnerships that deliver measurable business results.</span></p> <p><strong>Your Role at </strong><a href="http://impact.com"><strong>impact.com</strong></a><strong>:</strong></p> <p>We’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.</p> <p>You’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.</p> <p><strong>Time to value matters.</strong> Shape usable Markdown requirements quickly with AI. Speed with rigor is the bar.</p> <p>Success 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.</p> <p><strong>What You'll Do:</strong></p> <p>You’ll own focused feature slices with coaching from your Senior PM, with scope expanding as you prove out execution and judgment.</p> <p><strong>Feature execution & delivery</strong></p> <ul> <li>Drive 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).</li> <li>Write customer and business requirements (user stories, use cases, acceptance criteria) that engineers can build from without ambiguity.</li> <li>Partner with Engineering through build: surface risks, blockers, and acceptance gaps early.</li> <li>Write 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.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Technical fluency & AI-native working</strong></p> <ul> <li>Build working understanding of how AP and Contracting systems behave: data flows, edge cases, dependencies, and failure modes.</li> <li>Use 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.</li> <li>Get comfortable reading technical context (APIs, schemas, logs, tickets, eng design notes) enough to ask sharp questions and write better requirements.</li> <li>Protect engineering focus: clear definition of ready, early pushback on late scope changes, and avoiding rework from unclear requirements.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Squad partnership & operational excellence</strong></p> <ul> <li>Keep a clear, healthy backlog for your scope (ticket clarity, prioritization hygie