product manager Cambridge, MA
Job description
WHAT YOU WILL DO:
The Product Manager plays a key cross-functional leadership role in defining product and business requirements. The Product Manager is the internal product expert, designing and prioritizing product feature requirements, and establishing processes for effectively managing the entire product lifecycle - from concept, prototype, demo, to engineering, Q&A, and product launch. Specific deliverables include product requirements, competitive assessments and monitoring, market trends, product usability tests, prototype concepts, pricing strategies, release launch plans, and collateral content.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Proactively research market needs and competitive landscape to define market opportunities and business requirements for new offerings.
- Communicate with customers, prospects, partners, analysts, sales, and consulting to understand and document product requirements, and identify highest priority areas for future product investment.
- Build product prototypes and demonstrations to support both engineering and sales efforts.
- Define technical requirements, create actionable tech specs for engineering and consulting, establish product release processes, and plan release schedules.
- Coordinates and maintains pertinent product roadmap and milestone dates and provides necessary monthly updates to internal personnel.
- Review and evaluate development deliverables on a continual basis to ensure that requirements are properly addressed.
- Perform product demonstrations to customers, prospects, and partners to support sales initiatives.
- Creates demonstration scripts and provides product leadership and training to sales and sales engineers.
- Maintain comprehensive feature list with gap analysis to prioritize future enhancements.
- Create effective sales tools including value proposition, collateral, detailed features and benefits, what's new etc.
- Develop customer product bulletin content for regular customer communiqués.
- Maintain close relationship to customers for awareness of customer needs and perspectives and what works, what doesn't, and what more is needed to further their success.
WHAT YOU NEED:
- Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, sales, or marketing.
- Minimum five (5) years' experience in enterprise application software development and/or product management.
- Familiarity with database software design principles
- Ability to operate as a matrix manager in coordinating people and technical resources from multiple areas of a company.
- Exceptional communicator and presenter with high energy and confidence.
- Strong technical skills with the inquisitiveness to learn products, work with them, and constantly determine ways to improve them. This is a job for a technical 'tinkerer' who loves their product.
- A work style that emphasizes a disciplined and organized approach to defining products, prioritizing features, and activities, and driving execution.
- Flexibility and self-motivation - with a problem solver's attitude.
ABOUT OUR CLIENT:
Our client delivers personalized volunteer experiences for organizations from a virtual, hybrid or workplace-based environment. Their mission is threefold: give back to communities through non-profit partners, encourage employee engagement, and create meaningful experiences. Our clients' activities are designed with research backed methodology to help employees authentically build connection and positivity for employees and their teams. Their offerings are customized to fit each of their customers' interests and passions. Their primary focus areas are DEI Support, Health, Community and Environment.
ADDITIONAL INFFORMATION:
- Location: 100% Remote - anywhere within the US
- Culture: collaborative, progressive, engaging and growing!
- Position type: full time/exempt
- Benefits offered: this division is in the startup phase and EE Benefits are being developed! More to come!
