senior Product Manager - (US-TX-Austin - 78799)

Compensation: $90K - $110K / Year
Minimum Education: Bachelors
Job Type: Full Time
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The Product Manager is a key, strategic position responsible for championing their respective products and expanding each product’s market presence. The individual must be comfortable working closely with development, QA, support, sales and marketing teams. This is largely an inbound product management role – though the strategic decisions made in this role have immediate impact on customer’s experience with our solutions.
The ideal candidate would have the following:

Understands and quantifies the market for their Products via market research, market analysis and customer/prospect feedback
Develops requirements and associated documents for each release of the Product
Develops and maintains the Product Roadmap, recommending feature set vs. cost and timing tradeoffs while ensuring it is consistent with Austin Logistics’ business and product strategies
Synthesizes competitive analysis and ensures that their Product Roadmaps takes competitive pressures into account
Works with Development to assess adjacent and complementary technologies that are appropriate for inclusion in their Products
Acts as a thought leader for their Products and represents their vision and roadmaps in public forums such as conferences, standards bodies, industry analyst meetings, etc.
Own their Product's positioning and messaging for all appropriate buyer personas
Create the requisite sales enablement tools and support materials
Manages the Beta test and launch/market readiness activities for new software products and version releases

Qualifications:

A minimum of 7 years of product management experience for enterprise software solutions
Deep domain expertise in providing software tools or commercial solutions for the Financial Services and Telecommunications industries
Experience with analytic (predictive, optimization, stimulation) capabilities a plus
A good working understanding of underlying enterprise software technology concepts, including: java / object technologies, relational databases, relational database design, application integration, service oriented architecture, application architecture, configuration and extensibility, modularity, performance, scalability, requirements gathering, etc.
Manage product performance (e.g., win/loss analysis) and operational metrics dashboards
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
A bachelor's degree in technology or business from a major university; MBA a plus

Skills and Abilities:

Ability to clearly define and communicate the vision, goals, and value proposition of the product from the customer perspective
Ability to understand customer requirements and to map customer requirements into product features
Ability to evaluate cost/quality/time-to-market trade-offs and to make appropriate trade-off decisions under uncertainty
Ability to effectively communicate with, tactfully collaborate with, and forcefully convince people in diverse functional areas
Ability to analyze data and trends to produce effective plans and accurate forecasts
Ability to deal with a fast changing environment, juggle competing demands on time and to prioritize activities
Personal skills: product passion, intellectual curiosity, communication skills, listening skills, negotiation skills, analytical skills, selling skill