Senior Product Manager

Job Description

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The senior product manager provides direction to product development and the overall process of the product and services function. Builds products and services from existing ideas and helps to develop new ideas based on industry experience and contact with customers and prospects. Builds strong working relationships with marketing, sales, support staff, product development and vendors plus senior management and key customers.

What you'll own:

• Manages the process from product development to product launch, ensuring execution is in line with project plan, for small or moderately complex new product initiatives or existing product initiatives. In cases in which the product has a distinct PNL, the product manager has responsibility for managing a product's PNL to ensure profitability for product initiatives. For the International Business Segment, typical annual revenues for a small or moderately complex product initiative would be approximately $250k or less.

• Owns, manages, and communicates a product roadmap, including collaborating with industry analysts to form competitive analysis, and with delivery, sales, and relationship management teams to determine prioritization, development, and ongoing costs of delivery, and market positioning. Manages the details of product backlog and ensures continual enhancements to existing products.

• Develops the "go to market packaging" for existing products or smaller product initiatives and supports the "go to market" strategy on the new or more complex product initiatives. Collaborates with product marketing to develop product marketing strategies based on established product objectives, costs, and value proposition. Reviews research with product marketing to quantify value proposition for inputs to pricing analysis and marketing collateral. Defines pricing strategies for new and existing products considering competitive pricing models, target customer segment base, internal costs, value proposition metrics (e.g., savings to clients, process costs, etc.), and market acceptance and adoption rates. Participates in defining alternative models complete with benefits, and present final pricing recommendations to executive management for adoption.

• Develops business cases requiring minimal analytical skills for new product functionality to serve as inputs to decision-making, prioritization, pricing, and client value proposition.

• Collaborates with company business leaders, industry analysts, sales, IT, legal, strategic marketing and relationship management teams to define product goals, objectives, market positioning, and pricing strategies. Complies with established methodology for managing product strategy.

• Follows a structured, repeatable process for collecting and analyzing market research, to include industry publications, analyst research, experiential research, client surveys, etc. Supports the strategic planning approach for summarizing and communicating the results of aggregate research.

• Participates in product concept and requirements workshops with clients and internal development teams in pursuit of product requirements, objectives, and architecture decisions. Documents workshop results in a format suitable for consumption by all audiences, including interactive review and feedback from clients and internal parties.

• Supports the collaboration with product delivery and technology architecture to validate detailed design, particularly to ensure that product objectives and key requirements are met and aligned with the market needs and the business unit strategy. Completes required documentation and provides design direction, testing support, and general assistance to delivery team, as needed, during the execution phase of product development consisting of moderate complexities and scopes.

What you bring:

• Relevant Experience or Degree in: Business or Computer Science; Combination of relevant training and/ or experience in lieu of degree

• Minimum of six years relevant experience

• Experience in similar business product services and/or external customer/market experience

It's a bonus if you have:

• Experience in a software development environment or in a professional services role.

• Direct experience with software development, testing and/or business analysis.

• Experience with Agile software products and delivery methodology.

Compensation: