Group Product Manager - Software

Responsibilities and Duties:

- Manage/mentor one or more product managers and be accountable for their success

- Collaborate with the entire business team, product team and Data Science team to create new revenue streams

- Analyze, identify and quantify opportunities for new markets, new product features and new ideas

- Prepare, present and implement business plans and business cases for existing and new product features/lines for new/existing markets

- Understand customer needs and develop product requirements in line with them

- Develop market requirements, business cases, product requirements and business plan documentation

- Work with the business to ensure quality product delivery

- Collaborate on product definitions and product roadmaps

- Make decisions, share or champion enhancements or new products for the product line supporting the overall business

- Ensure compliance needs are met and addressed in every aspect of the product implementation

- Conduct financial analysis - forecasting, tracking, analysis, and reporting of the product cost and revenue

- Set product positioning in the market and ensure competitive advantage

- Setup baseline product pricing, deployment requirements, and pricing market fit

- Continuously monitor competitor and industry development

- Act as a primary product knowledge source for the business

- Demonstrate extreme tracking capabilities, anticipate roadblocks in feature development

- Create marketing communication material

- Create and develop sales collateral, training material and presentations for promotional activities

- Have a data first attitude, define and monitor product launch readiness and success metrics.

- Provide product communication to a wide variety of audience, both external and internal

- Work closely with sales and marketing teams on going to market plans

- Act as the primary evangelist and champion for the product/product line

- Maintain expertise in the product, market and business trends

- Cultivate deep relationships with other department heads to enable smooth the flow of external market conditions/scenarios.

Qualifications:

- We are looking for product managers who are logical, data-driven thinkers. A candidate applying for this role must know how to -

- Be Transparent about their prioritization and roadmap process

- Be able to say "No", but explain why in terms that all stakeholders understand

- Be able to generate consensus among strong-willed leadership

- Be a brutal prioritizer while balancing the needs of customers and stakeholders

- Bring evidence-based decision-making to your communication

Education Level:

Bachelor's degree; MBA preferred

Experience Level:

- 5-8 years of proven experience as a product manager with demonstrated success in defining and launching an excellent product.

Specific Skills:

- Excellent written and oral communication skills

- Technical background in developing software products (B2B)

- Excellent teamwork skills

- Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without any formal reporting structure

- Must be open to travel

- Examples of effective documentation delivered in the past

- Ability to define tracking metrics on top of Kanban/agile tracking