Job Responsibilities:

User Story & Acceptance Criteria Definition: Create detailed user stories by collaborating with product managers, marketing teams, and engineering, ensuring clear and comprehensive acceptance criteria for each story.
Roadmap & Backlog Management: Work closely with Product Managers to develop and refine product roadmaps and maintain a continuously prioritized backlog of user stories.
Product Vision & Scope Communication: Engage with development teams to ensure a thorough understanding of the product vision and scope for each feature, and gather technical details for feature breakdown.
Customer Advocacy: Serve as the voice of the customer internally, ensuring customer needs and perspectives are represented throughout the development process.
Agile Participation: Actively participate in Agile processes as a team Product Owner, facilitating discussions and ensuring smooth workflow.
Impediment Removal: Proactively identify, remove, and mitigate impediments impacting the successful completion of Release or Sprint goals.
Customer Research & Feedback: Support Product Management in conducting customer research and gathering feedback from internal and external stakeholders on feature development.
Marketing Material Creation: Assist in creating compelling marketing materials such as datasheets and white papers that effectively communicate the benefits of product offerings to customers, reinforcing the company's position as an industry leader.
Product Ambassadorship: Act as a product ambassador and expert among all stakeholders, including engineers, managers, and technical support staff.
Customer Interaction Support: Support customer interactions, particularly when validating new functionality or collating information regarding enhancement requests or defects.
Competitive Data Collection: Collect and maintain competitive data for organizational reference and strategic planning.

Required Skills:

Product Management Expertise: Strong background and proficiency in product management practices.
Agile & Scrum Knowledge: In-depth knowledge of Agile software development methodologies, particularly Scrum, and experience with sprint planning.
Technical Background: A strong technical background, including experience developing and deploying complex on-prem and SaaS software products.
Product Development Architecture: Working knowledge of product development architecture.
Time Management & Attention to Detail: Strong time-management and prioritization skills, coupled with excellent attention to detail.
Communication Skills: Superior written and verbal communication skills in English, specifically for understanding and communicating product-related items to teams and stakeholders.
Team Collaboration: Ability to work effectively with large teams.
Design Quality: Understanding of design quality standards.

Good to Have:

SaaS Experience: Experience with SaaS products, including an understanding of SaaS architecture, business models, vendor licensing models, and implementation challenges.
Domain Knowledge: Knowledge in one or more of the following subjects: FinOps, ITAM, SAM, public cloud cost optimization, ITIL.
Matrix Organization Experience: Experience working in a matrix organization, influencing work across user experience design and software development functions.

Senior Director, Product Management

Product management, agile process, sprint planning Professional

Product Manager - Data Management