Senior Associate, Product Manager

Overview LLR Partners is recruiting a Senior Associate of Product Management to join its Value Creation Team (VCT). The Senior Associate will work closely with VCT leadership and Portfolio Companies on various initiatives including: • Standing up portfolio-ready customer and market discovery programs (e.g., win/loss interviews, customer advisory boards, buyer/user research panels, and surveys). • Delivering rigorous market sizing and segmentation to define “where to play / how to win” investment theses. • Translating insights into fact-based product strategies and roadmaps that align corporate strategy with R&D investment. Accountabilities • This is an exciting opportunity that will help shape the success of portfolio companies from initial investment through exit planning. To support the portfolio company needs, this role will perform many different tasks, with a focus on the following accountabilities: • Design and launch standardized win/loss programs across portfolio companies, including interview guides, coding schemas, cadence, and insight readouts. • Establish and facilitate customer advisory boards and research panels; build and manage scalable survey programs; synthesize findings into recommendations and decisions. • Lead market sizing and segmentation (TAM/SAM/SOM) and derive segment-specific theses to inform strategy and resource allocation. • Build pricing and packaging hypotheses (e.g., good/better/best, usage metrics), test with customers, and partner with go-to-market leaders to operationalize. • Facilitate strategy-to-roadmap workshops; create prioritized, evidence-backed product roadmaps tied to R&D capacity and financial targets. • Implement product operating cadence: discovery backlog, experiment plans, stage gates, KPI dashboards, and post-launch reviews. • Coach product leaders (CEOs, CPOs/VPs Product, CTOs) in Pragmatic/SVPG methods; deliver templates, training, and playbooks to build durable capability. • Partner with Engineering on capacity planning and with Finance on ROI models; ensure investment decisions are transparent and tied to outcomes. • Create reusable assets across the portfolio: interview templates, survey banks, market model templates, roadmap formats, and executive readout materials. • Track and report value creation: improvements in win rates and retention, roadmap adoption, time-to-learning, and R&D mix shifts. Skills and Requirements • Bachelor’s degree or higher. • 5+ experience in B2B software product management with Director/VP scope; operated during scale from ~$10M to $100M+ revenue/ARR. • Formal training/certification in Pragmatic Institute, Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG), or similar frameworks. • Demonstrated experience leading hands-on discovery: win/loss programs, customer interviews, survey design/analysis, and advisory councils. • Proven ability to build fact-based product strategies and roadmaps aligned to corporate strategy and R&D investment; strong prioritization and trade-off decisions. • Analytical fluency: market models, pricing experiments, cohort/retention analysis, funnel conversion, and unit economics. • Executive presence with the ability to facilitate productive conflict and align CEOs/CTOs/functional leaders under time pressure. • Willingness to travel to portfolio companies as needed. • A commitment to a culture of trust, support, respect, humility, and innovation. • Excellent communication skills. About LLR Partners LLR Partners is a lower middle market private equity firm focused on investing in software and tech-enabled companies within the knowledge economy. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Philadelphia, LLR has raised over $7.5 billion across seven funds and has partnered with over 130 companies. LLR believes in creating value through partnership by providing flexible capital, strategic guidance and sector insight to help companies grow every day. For more information, visit www.llrpartners.com. LLR Partners is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at: [email protected]. Apply tot his job