Senior Product Manager

Xplor Technologies powers experiences at the heart of everyday life through modern vertical software and AI-powered capabilities. The Senior Product Manager will take ownership of core product areas, shaping product vision and execution while driving meaningful outcomes that align with brand strategy and customer value.

Responsibilities:

• Owns planning, vision, and implementation of features for core business or multiple product areas
• Provide regular input on overall product strategy and how team initiatives align with the overall product strategy
• Develop an astute understanding of the industry including emerging trends, new available technologies, and addressable markets
• Engage current and prospective customers to understand and analyze their needs, business practices, and plans
• Establish and align product roadmaps with the broader product strategy and find balance in delivery between long term investments, shorter term wins, and tech debt
• Mentor and/or manage product colleagues and drive development of their key skillsets
• Identify areas of improvement with your existing product area and fresh opportunities to thrill the market
• Engage internal stakeholders to execute product releases and support the public narrative for product feature releases
• Deliver clear and comprehensive product requirements to provide guidance to the development team
• Own the management and grooming of a product backlog ensuring tickets are ready to be pulled into upcoming sprints
• Engage sales, marketing, and customer support to capture customer feedback and to ensure prompt and seamless delivery to the market
• Partake in the Scrum process and help drive effective scrum ceremonies including standups, grooming sessions, sprint planning, and retrospectives
• Identify key success metrics for initiatives and ties those metrics to overall business metrics
• Focus on customer value and identify MVP solutions that deliver on that value with the least amount of time, effort and risk
• Identify and raise opportunities and risks to management
• Contribute to customer-facing demos and sales and marketing initiatives with your deep product knowledge
• Engage with design, research, and development to clearly articulate customer pain points and build a process for effective problem solving

Requirements:

• 5+ years professional experience managing software products from inception through launch and iteration
• Ability to operate and engage with a product team with no supervision
• Experience mentoring junior team members and developing product management skillsets
• Ability to articulate and drive research and design needs in support of product decisions
• Experience working with senior leadership across other company verticals including sales, marketing, and customer support
• Proven ability to deliver initiatives on time and on budget
• Experience working in an Agile Scrum environment
• Empathetic: you have a talent for understanding what our customers are trying to achieve and why they are trying to achieve it
• Analytic: you can spot the commonalities in seemingly different customer requests and identify opportunities to address them with a unified solution
• Innovative: you have a flair for bold ideas that can potentially deliver game-changing competitive advantages
• Strategic: you can slice big projects into pragmatic MVPs that maximize customer value with the least amount of time, effort and risk
• Collaborative: you believe that a team works best when everyone is communicating daily about how each person's piece fits in the shared vision