The Product Management Director's overall objective is to maximize revenue and margin growth of assigned solution sets or product divisions. He/she directs, establishes, maintains, and plans the overall direction and goals of their product portfolio. As the product champion and managing product champions both within and outside the company, he/she will be viewed as the expert for accurate and credible information on the product portfolio. The Director of Product Management drives the product roadmap and backlog activities while owning and enforcing profit and loss responsibilities for a multi-million-dollar solution set.
How will you make an impact
- Discuss priorities and direction with internal business executives to align vision and strategy.
- Pull together your Product Manager team to understand hot spots and provide guidance
- Proactively seek feedback from customers and prospects.
- Continue to refine roadmaps on product portfolio and align business needs and outcomes
- Analyze profit and loss of assigned product/solution sets.
- Evaluate and recommend new component, tools, technical partnerships required for successful product development which will require budgeted funds.
- Analyze cost analysis and market research to determine the impact a new or revised product will have on the market and our overall sales.
- Ensure Product Management processes are followed and supported to bring solutions to market on time and on budget. Works with one or more budget lines.
- Analyze, document, and communicate intelligence regarding competitor's capabilities, key strengths and weaknesses, pricing, and competitive positioning.
- Facilitate collaborative cross-functional team meetings to research and document product development ideas and concepts across multiple departments.
- Plan, document, and communicate new product development and product improvement projects with accompanying revenue opportunity documents, use cases, features and requirements, interaction design stories, and launch plans.
- Perform analyses and make decision regarding feature improvements and new feature developments.
- Act as and lead other Product Managers as subject matter experts expected to know and understand new features and feature improvement.
- Work with sales, sales engineers and SMEs to assist with sales opportunities.
- Day to day project management, coordination, and delivery of projects related to assigned products.
- Occasional travel for client visits, tradeshows, and sales support.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Have you got what it takes
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field or equivalent work experience required. Bachelor's degree preferred. MBA or similar a bonus.
- 20+ years of work experience with strong at least 8+ years of product management background with formal product management techniques, tools, and principals involved in planning and delivering new software products and services.
- In-depth knowledge in and experience with agile & SCRUM development methodologies.
- Demonstrated leadership of product management organization or similar.
- Experience with P&L accountability.
- Demonstrated ability to understand and translate non-technical feature descriptions into structured use cases, requirements, and specifications for technical audiences.
- Requires interaction with customers, prospects, sales, executive management, and technical engineering resources, adjusting communications to the situation and successfully understanding and communicating product capabilities and priorities to each audience.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English including vocabulary, spelling, composition, and grammar.
- Reading and comprehension and understanding technical information well enough to convey in original written communications to multiple audiences.
- Personal interaction with technical resources and listen carefully, taking time to understand the points being made, and asking questions where appropriate.
- Excellent skills with specialized computer software for drafting and producing documents and diagrams
- Driven self-starter; detail oriented, clear, logical thinker, technical thinker, bright and energetic
- Works well in fast paced, high pressure environments with the ability focus on goals and objectives
- Experience with public cloud technologies and infrastructure like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure; if you don't have experience with cloud the strong desire to gain it may suffice.
