Director, Product Management
We are looking for Director, Product Management, to join our fast-growing startup. We provide a SaaS solution for our customers to help speed-up and streamline their innovation and technology evaluation programs
Description:
As our Director, Product Management, you will be responsible for both product planning and product marketing.
This includes managing the product throughout the product lifecycle, gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, and working closely with R&D to deliver winning products.
Working with cross functional teams produce a deliver plan and roadmap, and Support to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met.
Your job also includes ensuring that the product marketing efforts support the company’s overall strategy and goals.
Responsibilities:
- Define the product strategy and roadmap
- Deliver MRDs and PRDs with prioritized features and corresponding justification
- “Own” the product’s user experience and feature set, and act as the product evangelist to build awareness within the company
- Perform product demos to customers & Partners
- Understand the company’s strategic priorities and drive product vision in alignment.
- Own and execute a product roadmap, using agile principles, through backlog management and user story development.
- Evangelize the product roadmap both with internal stakeholders as well as with customers.
- Use data and customer input to discover and design solutions that make our customers successful.
- Work closely with the engineering and design teams to build the next generation of Identity products.
- Collaborate with the marketing to develop strong go to market strategies and plans.
- Product and Roadmap briefings to Sales and Customer executives
- Prioritizes product requirements in alignment with company strategy and market window
- Establish timelines and product benchmarks
- Drive product alignment with company mission and goals
- Work with cross functional teams produce a deliver plan and roadmap
- Sales training and product positioning in line with company sales channels
- Competitive Analysis
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- 6+ years of experience in B2B technology product management
- Experience delivering software as a service (SAAS) technology, B2B, Customer acquisition & Enterprise S/W
- Experience in managing software products and solutions - Preferred
- Experience with cloud based services - Preferred
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent (MBA preferred)
- Passion for great user experience and design
- Demonstrated success defining and launching excellent products
- Ability to interface with internal and external clients in a professional manner
- Accustomed to working autonomously
- Hands on experience working in an waterfall/DevOps environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Travel for in-person meetings with customers and partners
Competencies:
- Passion for technology and the fast-paced environment of startups.
- Proven record of aligning cross-functional teams around a cohesive vision
- An analytical mind and the ability to make data-driven decisions
- Strategic thinking combined with tactical program execution
- Excellent teamwork skills
- Excellent time management, presentation, human relations and organizational skills