Product Manager

Role Overview

• Act as the subject matter expert for your market and understand how your product fits within it
• Project coordination, market research and needs analysis
• Research customers' business practices and needs relative to new integrations, products, features and modules
• Work directly with 3rd party partners to scope and implement API integrations to support the expansion of our Partner Network
• Propose solutions based on customer input, surveys, imaginative interpretation of user needs, market needs analysis, and known technological solutions
• Review all relevant sources of information, including analysts and industry thought leaders
• Keep in close contact with key customers and prospective key customers on the leading edge of the industry, including site visits
• Monitor competitors’ activities to determine possible future directions
• Participate in key sales situations, including contributing to RFP responses, and maintain a close relationship with sales team(s)
• Define, drive, and maintain the product roadmap and backlog
• Work with development, project management, marketing, and other applicable functions to prepare release objectives, milestones and schedules for all phases of product development and launch
• Assist with the prioritization of initial feature development and ongoing change requests
• Translate high level objectives from clients and partners into measurable functional requirements
• Work closely with Business Analysts and Interaction Designers to ensure designs meet requirements and customer needs
• Act as quarterback of the team and business owner for solution
• Work with Sales and Marketing to define the value proposition of offerings and how best to position them in the market to succeed
• Manage/update/communicate evolving requirements and feature development throughout the project life cycle

Requirements

• 3+ years in a product management or business analysis or project management role
• Bachelor’s degree
• Exposure to SaaS and ecommerce product development
• Experience implementing out-of-the-box API integrations with 3rd party platforms
• Proven track record of delivering projects on time, quality and budget
• Experience writing software/hardware functional requirements in agile environment
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Strong business acumen
• Knowledge/experience of various software development methods
• Ability to communicate with different personality types and roles (e.g., development, sales, support, customer, market analyst, executive) effectively and build strong relationships
• Comprehensive understanding of usability and interaction design
• Strong understanding of current web application design

Benefits

• Competitive compensation + benefits, including health, vision, dental, pet insurance and 401k with matching
• ACTIVEx, our award-winning employee participation program, will help you grow personally and professionally
• Hookups and discounts for races, events, tickets, activity gear, bike purchase program and more!