Product Manager for a Software Leader

This is your chance to join a leading organization as a Product Manager.

You have:

• 5+ years in functional Business Intelligence (metrics, KPI, scorecard, etc)
• 1+ year of experience in Product Management (with a Software Vendor)
• Excellent presentation, written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities:

1. Product vision, roadmap and advocacy
2. Product requirements specification
3. Customer interface: Handle problems, solicit needs and priorities, validate requirements, run beta programs, help develop references.
4. Sales support: Provide product expertise on sales calls, help close major deals, and train sales reps.
5. Consulting Services Support: Help develop training and methodologies for successful implementations.
6. Development interface: Review designs, test plans and documentation, and prioritize bug fixes.
7. Marketing support: Help Product Marketing with product positioning and messaging, competitive analysis, white papers and sales collateral, demos, webinars, conference presentations and analyst tours.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Functional experience with business methodologies such as Balanced Scorecard and Six Sigma, and knowledge of organizational development.
• Experience with business analysis—using metrics, KPI dashboards, business intelligence and/or OLAP—is desired.
• A background including finance, product marketing, pre-sales or post-sales consulting, or software development is a plus.
• Strong communication, negotiation, organizational and analytical skills.
• Strong requirements gathering, definition and prioritization skills – ability to understand and represent the customers’ point of view.
• Ability to drive the success of the product vision through the company and into the market.
• Broad enterprise software industry and technology knowledge, from multi-tier database application architecture, to competitive analysis, to working with system integration partners, to business methodologies.
• Ability to handle and defuse conflicting constituencies.
• Ability to understand our client’s broader product line and strategy and drive appropriate integration.
• Strong business data analysis skills.

Education:

BS required, MBA a plus.

If you're not interested, but know someone who is, please help a current or former colleague in their career development by referring them. In addition, we're happy to give you a $750 referral fee. Click here for more details.