Nucleus Software - Product Management

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Product Strategy

2. Alignment of product roadmap with market and competitive trends and customer demands

3. Internal stakeholder management

4. PDLC management

5. People Management

Product Strategy

- Understand the company's current and evolving business goals and translate them into a maintainable product vision and roadmap

Alignment of product roadmap with market and competitive trends and customer demands

Lead and develop:

- Product strategy and end state planning in partnership with customers

- Pricing strategy

- Competitive product positioning

- Market & customer analysis, competitive / benchmarking analysis and feature parity analysis

- Business plans, partnership plans, GTM plans and the associated financial projections across new and existing solutions

- Drive Gate 1, 2 and 3 for PLM process Product Profitability - 40%

Internal stakeholder management

- Act as main point person between customers and Nucleus. Know the customers- strategies, how to navigate their organizations, how to get information, and develop processes for effective communication

a) Work with new and potential customers to understand their needs and the business value that they will derive from using our products

- Work closely with Customer Services, Sales and Marketing teams to help identify trends and new business opportunities

- Evaluate third party companies and solutions and drive build vs. buy vs. partner decisions

- Build industry presence through participation/presence in industry for a, technology/domain panels to enhance Nucleus- market-presence, contribute thought leadership as well as seek information on changing trends and best-practices

- Support pre-sales and sales team during RFP response, sales training, product capability demonstrations and pilot implementations

- Evangelize products and become the subject matter expert for internal audiences, external customers, and market facing communications

Technical responsibilities:

PDLC management

- Establish and deploy robust requirement-gathering processes to define product requirements as well as build continuous feedback mechanism to ensure that the business requirements are comprehended and translated in an accurate manner

- Recommend the development of new products and ways to enhance existing products. Develop industry-level, region-level and module-level roadmaps

- Proactively identify issues impacting the product line and recommend next steps/solutions

- Support and lead the common PDLC tools and processes that the Product Management organization will adopt

- Continuously improve the product development process, incorporating lessons learned and best practices

- Create Product and feature collaterals including product layout, user experience, value proposition documents, case studies, white papers, FAQs etc.

- Coordinate closely with internal and external stakeholders to ensure product features meet identified and agreed upon exit criteria - Product Quality - 15%

- Product Roadmap adherence - 15%

People responsibilities:

People Management

- Lead a team of product management professionals, to ensure successful product launch, positioning and Selling

- Enhance productivity through training and tools

- Drive a high level of employee engagement by effectively communicating company strategy and product vision

- Evangelize a product management culture within the organization, including establishment of product development gating processes, best practices, and policies

- Mentor and coach the team members and drive internal convergence where necessitated through consultative leadership - Employee training and engagement plan adherence - 15%

- Attrition % - 15%

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS/ CERTIFICATION/ EXPERIENCES

- MBA from a premium institution

- High-energy, creatively-driven, hard-working. impeccable integrity

- Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills. Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences

- Proven ability to understand complex business and technical concepts and to be able to make good judgment when faced with trade-offs

- Excellent analytical skills with strong attention to details

- Extremely good at multi-tasking

- Team player with excellent interpersonal skills

- Excellent collaboration skills - leading execution across teams, influencing across organizations, respected, experience of working across organizational boundaries; consensus builder

- Ability to establish and maintain relationships with people at all levels of the organization and external clients and partners

- Ability to excel in dynamic, fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment

- Strong results orientation with demonstrated track record of success

- Creative and out of the box thinking to drive compelling solutions to problems

- Experience leading a global, diverse and cross-functional teams