Product Manager

The Product Manager is responsible for product planning and assisting with marketing for selected products. This includes managing the product throughout its lifecycle, gathering and prioritizing requirements, clarifying the product vision, and working closely with Engineering and Sales to deliver winning products.

It also includes working with Marketing and support to drive revenue and customer satisfaction. They will ensure that the product and marketing efforts support the overall business strategy and goals. They are responsible for education, championing and implementation of Product Management best practices throughout the organization.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

• Gather and prioritize requirements with input from Customers, Support, Development, and other market sources.
• Assist in the identification of new opportunities based on knowledge of emerging technologies.
• Represent the customer: build strong customer relationships, develop deep insights on evolving customer requirements, be the champion and voice of the customer, bring the customers voice into the product development process.

• Collaborate with Engineering to develop and implement solutions to highly technical problems based on detailed knowledge of core product and platform technology.
• Build expertise on the domain, the market, and the trends.
• Evangelize our vision constantly so all stakeholders are aligned, have context and understand where we are going.
• Support the roadmap: support decisions to adjust based on engineering tradeoffs and customer feedback, help support development of business cases to support proposed investment priorities.
• Assist in briefing internal sales force and business partners on product releases, lifecycle, and policies.

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years experience as a Product Manager.
• Ability to ensure the confidentiality of sensitive information and thrive in a fast-paced, intellectually demanding and service-oriented environment.
• Ability to manage time and schedules to meet aggressive deadlines and influence through persuasive written and verbal communication.

• Demonstrated success defining and launching excellent products.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment.
• Domain knowledge of database and development tools.
• Effective presentations to customers.
• Excellent teamwork skills.

• Outstanding attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority.

Education:

Bachelors degree in Business, Computer Science or Marketing, or equivalent business experience.