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Current Job Postings
PM 185 Product Manager – Certifications – (Bay Area, CA)
PM 183 Senior Platform Product Manager – (Pleasanton, CA)
PM 182 Product Manager – (Albany, NY)
PM 181 Product Manager – (New York, NY)
PM 179 Product Manager – SaaS/Enterprise – (Baltimore, MD)
PM 178 Product Manager/Marketing Manager – (Danvers, MA)
PM 175 Product Owner (Ft. Worth/Dallas Area, TX)
PM 174 Senior Product Manager (Ft. Worth/Dallas Area, TX)
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PM 186 Director – Product Management – Certifications
Location: Santa Clara, CA or East Coast Remote Employee
Our client is a revolutionary and dynamic company creating next generation network security products. If you are a motivated, intelligent, creative, and hardworking individual who wants to contribute and make a difference, this job is for you!
Description
Our client continues to build a world-class product management organization and is looking for a Director to lead their Software Certifications team. This role requires a strong leader who will be responsible for developing a strategy and roadmap for certifications for their products, collaborating across the Organization with other product leaders, working with Sales to determine market opportunity after obtaining certification, interacting with certifying agencies, customers, and partners, and leading a team to deliver against the certification strategy.
This is where you come in! We are looking for a person with a unique blend of business, technical and product management skillsets. You need to understand the certifications space, be able to develop a strategy and roadmap for software certifications, communicate that strategy internally to build consensus, and determine optimal staffing levels to ensure delivery against the strategic roadmap. The ideal candidate shall be able to recruit and retain top level talent, develop talent internally to ensure team members have solid career paths, and communicate clearly and effectively to both internal and external stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for development of a certification strategy, roadmap, and vision
- Manage a team of specialists to deliver against the certification strategy
- Build consensus on the certification plan at the executive level working with Product Leadership and Sales Leadership to communicate the vision and roadmap
- Engage with certification authorities to ensure for each agency there is a plan for obtaining and maintaining certification
- Effectively track and manage multiple simultaneous programs
- Standardize common artifacts to improve efficiency across the various certifications
- Resolve issues surrounding conflicting resources and timelines among competing projects
- Raising appropriate visibility to the rest of the organization when needed
- Provide weekly status reports
- Develop deep relationships with product teams, certification authorities, and internal stakeholders
- Participate in Annual Planning and own the strategy and budget for planned deliverables
- Collaborate with other business functions to ensure resource needs to deliver against the roadmap are planned accordingly
Qualifications:
- Ability to run a team of evaluators and to present to customers and certification authorities
- Ability to understand complex business problems and interpret business and technical requirements
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Strong desire to take ownership of software certifications
- Drive to identify unique and improved ways to meet the project needs
- Domain expertise in network security service offerings is a plus
- Previous work with certification authorities and engineering teams
- Minimum 8-10 years in program management or equivalent
- Be a deeply critical thinker able to distill complicated topics into clear and concise communications
- Engage in direct conversations and negotiations with senior and executive leadership
- Be able to present and defend opinions internally to executive leadership
- Must be hands-on in style and approach to working
- Experience coaching and mentoring team members and direct reports
- Be able to organize and lead teams who do not directly report to you
- Demonstrable track record of success
- Able to quickly adapt to various technical and organizational environments
- Ability to coach other team members
- Thorough knowledge and experience with Common Criteria, SSAE 16 SOC, FedRAMP, or FIPS certifications
- University Degree (Equivalent to a Bachelor’s degree), preferably in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, Software, Security or a technically related discipline and 7+ years of related experience
- Strong track record and experience in Program Management
- Willingness to Travel extensively to meet with customers, partners, and certification agencies
Technical Competencies in one or more of the following areas
- Compliance Assessment Standards
- HIPAA – HITRUST
- PCI
- SSAE 16 SOC / ISAE 3402
- Risk Assessment
- Security and Compliance Frameworks
- FIPS
- ISO/IEC
- NIST
- FedRAMP
Education and/or Certifications
- BS/MS in a technical field or equivalent in experience
- MBA is desirable
- PMP or Agile certification
PM 185 Product Manager – Certifications
Location: Bay Area, CA
Our client is building a world-class product management organization and continues to look for top-notch product managers to expand the team. As a product manager of certifications, you will play an instrumental role in attaining many certifications across their product line. Certifications are of high value as they enable their products to be sold into many key markets including federal governments around the world. In this role, you will be responsible for coordinating all activities related to the product certifications, as well as individually contributing much of the content required to obtain these certifications.
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with sales management and other product managers in the Certification team as well as across their broader team to devise an appropriate certifications strategy.
- Coordinate all aspects of the certifications projects from start to finish.
- Understand and write all product requirements for certifications – in coordination with peer product managers when needed.
- Build a solid technical understanding of the product line to speak fluently with consultants, certification agencies, and more to achieve certifications with as few additional resources as possible.
- Perform basic product testing and certifications documentation development to ensure success during certification process.
- Work with individual product experts, outside consultants and firms, certification agencies, and more to successfully complete certifications.
- Select outside contractors and certification agencies for certification projects.
Qualifications:
- Strong FedRAMP implementation experience.
- Experience with NIST 800-53 Rev4 security controls, assessments and SSP development.
- Provide in-depth knowledge of FedRAMP processes, controls, and compliance requirements.
- Experience in Common Criteria and FIPS 140-2 certifications.
- Must be hands-on in style and approach to working with very strong interest in technology products.
- Technical background in network security and cryptography.
- Strong initiative and ability to work independently with limited direction.
- Minimum 3-5 years of certification management experience.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Education:
- BS/MS or equivalent experience required
PM 183 Senior Platform Product Manager
Location: Pleasanton, CA
Our client designs and markets popular solutions and services used by their enterprise customers nationwide. Their value is delivered via a SaaS model and through live customer interaction. They are a leader in their space worldwide.
Our client believes that the role of Product Management is to deliver measurable business results through product solutions that meet both market needs and company goals. Their Product Managers (PMs) at are owners and drivers in their agile process.
As a Platform Product Manager you work with Engineering and Marketing to innovate and enhance their technology platform through data-driven detailed specifications that meet their platform goals, driving and delivering API and platform strategy.
REQUIREMENTS
- Identify issues and opportunities from technical and non-technical partners and internal stakeholders
- Collaborate to develop the business case for these and be part of the global prioritization process
- Identify platform and architectural enhancements and leverage in-depth experience of technology to execute initiatives and reduce technical debt
- Translate product ideas into detailed, clear requirements and user-stories that can be used to create product specifications, architecture, and marketing collateral for each feature
- Be informed of industry trends – developer tools, virtualization, containers, etc.
- Act as Scrum/Agile Product Owner for your areas including: proactively building and maintaining well-groomed, estimated and detailed backlog; working closely with UX/Dev/QA during the sprint cycle through standups, new feature testing, production rollout, etc.; ensure external rollout of features/products are fully integrated with stakeholder organizations including Sales/Marketing/Support/Documentation/Fulfillment/billing, etc.
- Work with product marketing to communicate feature releases and deliver products to market.
- Serve as the product subject matter expert and evangelist
CRITICAL CRITERIA
- Experience with SaaS and RESTful API-based services
- Ability to “speak API” in both partner-friendly and developer-friendly ways
- Ability to easily communicate with engineers about various aspects of a SaaS system, including API strategy and definition, SSO and other authorization/identity management solutions, integrations, e-commerce, etc.
- Managed several large projects, from gathering requirements to delivery, involving a variety of stakeholders – especially projects with significant dependencies on other providers
- Critical eye for and previous experience in designing a significant user experience
- Strong technical knowledge and an ability to influence engineering decisions
- Possess excellent communication and persuasion skills and have demonstrated success in building buy-in for your strategic vision
PREFERRED CRITERIA
- 5-7 years of product management experience in a SaaS B2B context
- Experience in Batch and Async support in frameworks
- Experience with mobile, particularly mobile-first apps
- Deep understanding of API platforms, integrations, SSO, e-commerce platforms
- Technical background – A degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
- Experience with applications with artificial intelligence and/or machine learning technologies
PM 182 Product Manager
Location: Albany, NY
Our client is a global “Fortune 500” technology leader. They are looking for a Product Manager to be responsible for a defined product line, including: product line global growth, product definition, forecasting, profitability, commercialization and product life cycle management. Work to meet these responsibilities includes coordination of tactical and strategic business activities with Sales, Service, Research & Development Engineers, Manufacturing, Quality, Customers, and Business Partners.
The Product Manager maintains expertise on relevant products and technologies through training, research, and proactive industry immersion. Using this expertise, ensures competitiveness of product line and designs multi-dimensional marketing campaigns to drive product line growth.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Ensures a product line that is healthy by employing a “portfolio view”: growing the product line in attractive areas, while minimizing personal and business effort on lesser attractive portions of the portfolio, resulting in profitable growth in the short and long terms.
- Leads a cross functional matrix team of manufacturing engineers, design engineers, quality associates, and purchasing to deliver PPV, VAVE, quality, OTD, first pass yield, obsolescence, and NPD targets for the product line.
- Develops a global product marketing roadmap that is the vision for sustaining the health of the portfolio, including target technologies, markets, price, positioning & competitive differentiation. Roadmap is to include strategic obsolescence and product exits.
- Justifies and wins internal support for roadmap priorities.
- Creates & provides technical and sales training for the product line to Field Sales and Service Organizations as well as Distributors and outside customers.
- Conducts on-going VOC and competitive analysis, generating selling tools that enabling company to differentiate the product line to our target customers.
- Leads new product commercialization, including launch and sales / customer training. Also responsible for product promotion plan including trade shows, product literature plan, product training plan and product distribution plan.
- Coordinates with global sales, service, manufacturing, quality, customers and standards (regulatory) organizations all tactical and strategic actions necessary for product portfolio health.
- Determines product pricing and recommend pricing policies based on established gross margin objectives and preparation of plans for margin improvement where necessary.
- Prepares competitive analysis and formulation of competitive counter strategies for all new and existing products. Supports sales organization with competitive share take strategies and up to date market intelligence.
- Drives problem solving and voice of the customer to assure strong positioning and product line growth. Assess customer experience and process technical support data collaboratively with development, product planning, sales and other internal personnel. Actively reviews product line performance on a regular basis and countermeasures misses for all value stream targets.
QUALIFICATIONS
- 5-7 years of industry and / or product line management experience required; 2-3 years of global product marketing experience, including New Product Introduction (NPI) Development and Execution strongly preferred.
- A fundamental understanding of electronics, especially electronic sensing and control technologies.
- Knowledge of process manufacturing environments and application of appropriate standards & regulations preferred.
- Ability & desire to work with customers, translating needs into products and solutions is a must; experience with Outcome Driven Innovation / Voice of Customer techniques preferred
- Demonstrated Ability to work effectively across functions (engineering, manufacturing, purchasing, sales, service)
- Formal training in pricing, leadership influence and forecasting desired
- Candidates with international experience preferred
- Excellent communications skills (oral and written) a must.
- Willing to travel up to 35% of the time.
PM 181 Product Manager
Location: New York, NY
This is a great opportunity for an experienced Product Manager to take the lead product position at a fast growing, VC backed, Digital Health startup.
Our client is a platform that connects Healthcare clinicians to local available shifts with large healthcare providers. Our platform has both consumer facing mobile apps and an enterprise SaaS offering that is deployed with large enterprises.
About you
Entrepreneurial, with strong and proven Product Management experience working for startups and taking new software products to the market.
Ideally you’ve worked on mobile applications, marketplace platforms and SaaS B2B products.
About the job
As the CEO of the Product you will work with Customer Success, Marketing, Sales and our customers and users to drive platform metrics and revenues. Specifically, you will:
- Build and maintain the roadmap, manage feature delivery from discovery to validation in production.
- Write the product management playbook and build a team of product managers and analysts
- Constantly come up with creative ways to add more value to our customers through new features, new business models, partnerships, technical innovation and optimization and implement them end to end (product, operations, whatever is needed…)
- Understand what the different parts of the business challenges are and find solutions within the product to these challenges where possible.
Your team will include a product owner, UX/UI lead and a QA team.
REQUIREMENTS
- 5-10 years of Product Management experience
- Experience in managing product for mobile platforms, B2b SaaS or online marketplaces/exchanges
- Prior experience working in an entrepreneurial environment, where your judgment and strategic thinking are key to success, where a “can do” approach and ability to roll up the sleeves and get stuff done is the number 1 requirement.
- Experience in creating new products and successfully taking them to the market.
- Prior experience working in an entrepreneurial environment, where your judgment and strategic thinking were key to success
- Demonstrated experience and skills in identifying, building and managing large product teams, in multiple companies, motivating people towards delivering top performance and outcomes
- Success taking complex products to market and proven results working cross functionally with Engineering and Sales, driving successful deliverables
- Strong analytical and organizational skills
- Leadership attributes with demonstrated integrity, passion and initiative
- BA/BS required; BS in Computer Science/Engineering/Mathematics plus, MBA preferred
BENEFITS
- The opportunity to be a key player and build your career at a rapidly expanding technology company
- Competitive base salary
- Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
- Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
- Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
- Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
- Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
- Free Food & Snacks
- Wellness Resources
- Stock Option Plan
PM 179 Product Manager – SaaS/Enterprise
Location: Baltimore, MD
Our client is a recognized leader in developing, deploying and supporting software solutions. They provide an integrated solution suite to their customers and are looking for a Product Manager to join their Product Management group. In this position you will be responsible for defining and communicating the strategic path for new product offerings and add-ons. To be successful in this role, you will need to have a solid understanding of and experience in Product Management disciplines and in software product development. Pragmatic Marketing or Optimal Product Management training/certification is preferred.
Key Job Responsibilities
- Conduct market analysis, create a Business Case and Return on Investment model for the Collections/Audit product.
- Conduct customer and market research to validate business needs and market problems.
- Define product strategy and product roadmap with clear objectives and long-term vision.
- Create a product backlog with prioritized features (Must Have, Nice to Have, Future Release).
- Partner with Technology Team (Engineering, QA, Project Management) to communicate product requirements and determine viable development strategies, deliverables, and release dates.
- Contribute to high level Requirements documents.
- Run Voice of the Customer or alpha/beta programs and capturing early customer feedback.
- Define value positioning to assist other areas of the organization in marketing and positioning of the product.
- Competitive analysis for use internally at the company.
Requirements
- Bachelors, with preferred focus in Business, Information Technology, Marketing, or
equivalent experience - 5+ years of business or systems experience pertaining to software development products
- 5+ years of product management experience
- Product Management training/certification preferred
- Energetic, self-motivated, strong leader who can prioritize well and communicate clearly
PM 178 Product Manager/Marketing Manager
Location: Danvers, MA
Our client is looking for a Product Manager. In this role, you will be highly involved in helping define and implement the strategic direction for product in North America. He/she will lead their customer segmentation and Voice-of-Customer (VOC) initiatives to identify market insights/trends and turn them into new product commercialization opportunities that support their strategic objectives. This role will also be responsible for actively managing the product portfolio, implementing pricing initiatives, identifying and developing marketing and sales tools to maximize the effectiveness of their sales team, and working with other key functional areas to achieve growth targets.
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Employ marketing best practices such as VOC, customer segmentation, product portfolio management, competitive positioning, market assessment, pricing, and new product development.
- Define, structure and execute VOC initiatives to identify market needs and opportunities that result in a strong product road map for their business.
- Obtain deep understanding of markets to define target customer segments. Position both current and new products to address needs of target market segments.
- Create business cases for new product opportunities, work with cross-function teams via the stage-gate process to take these opportunities from concept to commercialization. Successfully launch new products to deliver on NPI metrics.
- Analyze market trends/opportunities and manage product life cycle to recommend product portfolio changes and improvements.
- Devise value proposition across the different segments, and train commercial team and channel partners to effectively deliver value proposition.
- Maintain competitor/market information up-to-date to support strategic planning and business development.
- Develop, expand and maintain Market Maps to understand relevant industries and competitors, and recommend initiatives to drive competitive differentiation.
- Develop and execute product training and support to sales, customer service, technical support, distributors and customers to drive growth.
- Define and manage creation of marketing content and collaterals for both print and digital platforms.
- Devise and create marketing campaigns to drive lead generation and conversion, lead nurturing, and brand awareness.
- Manage trade shows to maximize booth traffic and manage lead capture on site; support channel partners on trade shows with marketing collateral and product positioning.
- Promote, support and adhere to all safety, environmental and quality related policies and procedures.
- Utilize the ITW Toolbox (80/20, PLS, MRD, USa) to drive successful penetration in market segments.
Skills and Competencies:
- Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry or related field from four-year college or university. MBA preferred.
- 5+ years’ experience working in B2B business. Specialty Chemical industry experience preferred.
- Proven track record of delivering business growth in a Marketing Manager or Product Manager role.
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills, and able to make strategic and operational decisions.
- Ability to read, interpret and write technical documents, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
- Familiarity with the popular Microsoft products, proficient in MS Office.
- Domestic travel required – typically ~25%.
Preferred Attributes:
- The successful candidate must be creative, intellectually curious and have a strong work ethic. The individual must be an independent thinker and self-starter with the bandwidth to multitask and work on several projects at a given time. It is important that the individual have superior interpersonal skills with an ability to work with people at multiple levels both inside and outside of Danvers.
- Ability to analyze complicated issues and boil down to the key points, develop action plans and bring to a successful conclusion.
- Effective in a fast-paced environment.
- Structured, organized individual who is capable of successfully handling multiple tasks and quickly grasp complicated situations. Attention to detail is important.
PM 175 Product Owner
Location: Ft. Worth/Dallas Area, TX
The Product Owner will be responsible for owning the process leading to the delivery of specific products or product lines throughout the product life cycle to optimize profit and meet client expectations, marketing, financial, and corporate growth objectives. They will work closely with a Product Manager to translate high-level strategic decisions into actionable and understandable deliverables for development, quality assurance and customer service to create new products, or enhance existing product(s) or product line(s).
Key Responsibilities
- Gather business requirements from a variety of sources, such as customers, account Owners, and sales. Document, elaborate on and work with business leadership to prioritize these requirements as part of the overall product roadmap.
- Own product backlog keeping at least 3 months of work ready for development
- Serve as subject matter expert in relevant product domains assisting with customer UAT, defect triage and mitigation efforts
- Partner with stakeholders to define minimum viable product
- Inspect, accept or reject completed development work
- Communicate work in progress and upcoming work to key internal and external stakeholders
- Collaborate with software development to build great solutions for existing and potential customers
- Develop an understanding of the target market and user bases which will then guide decisions on product backlog and prioritization
- Contribute to the business cases created by project managers as necessary to justify proposed solutions and business investments
- Stay up to date on the latest technology and customer trends to ensure AudaExplore’s solutions stay ahead of the market
- Collaborate with peers and leadership to define cross-product strategy within Claims platform
- Conduct customer, market, and competitive analysis to identify industry trends, market gaps and unmet customer needs
Required Skills
- 4-year degree or equivalent experience
- 1+ years of relevant Product Management, Product Owner, Business Analyst, or Beta Analyst experience in software product development environment
- Ability to support Agile Scrum methodologies or waterfall methodologies
- Experience in a role with strong requirements elicitation (Business Analyst, Technical Product Manager, consultant, etc.), and proven writing skills including the ability to write concisely and clearly for different audiences
- Experience with customer support and bug tracking
- A minimum of three to five years of related experience in software development.
- Experience with auto physical damage claims highly desired.
- Bachelors degree required, preferably with a major in business, marketing, economics, computer science or a related field.
- Experience and proficiency with business management tools JIRA, Aha, and MS suite.
PM 174 Senior Product Manager
Location: Ft. Worth/Dallas Area, TX
Our client is a global leader in digital technologies with a workforce of over 5000 and an entrepreneurial culture of success.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Product Strategy: Analyze market to develop product strategy. Includes (market sizing, competitive analysis, customer value proposition development, etc.)
- Roadmap development and execution: Develop product roadmap to effectively deliver strategy. Ensure execution of roadmap through development, product launch, delivered results and tracking.
- Industry/Product Expert: Be an expert on the product and market. Provide expertise to sales, customers, executives and others through product demos, documents/videos, presentations etc.
Additional responsibilities of the role include:
- Work closely with multiple local and global stakeholders to ensure we deliver differentiated and innovative solutions that maximize the value delivered to our clients and partners.
- Effectively document, prioritize and communicate market, business and customer needs in tight collaboration with the design, engineering, support and sales teams, to maximize our output and competitiveness.
- Chart the direction of the existing product lines as well as determine the strategy for new solutions, potentially even entering new markets
Qualifications
- Minimum of 3 years software Product Management experience with proven results
- Agile product management and/or agile coaching training/experience
- Experience working within an enterprise environment but entrepreneurial teams and mindset
- Experience with B2B service models & interactions
- BA/BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Business or related technical field. MBA/MS a plus
- Capable of assisting in driving the development and delivery of solution strategy including end to end designs and business requirements within an agile development framework, reinforcing focus on defensible and quantifiable delivery of business value
- Track record of delivering product innovations leveraging customer feedback, deployment experience, competitive positioning, and market thought leadership
- Track record of building out strategic and tactical product roadmaps from the ground up
- Ability to partner with the business to produce revenue plans, product pricing, product positioning
- Able to work closely with users, engineering, support and commercial teams to oversee and participate in user experience testing and product feedback sessions to capture key feedback that feeds product development
- Demonstrated success working with engineering teams to plan, develop, refine, and launch successful software products on-time and with high quality
- Ability to take complex business and technical problems and distill them down to actionable responses for mitigation and resolution by both technical and non-technical teams
- Experience building and executing product go-to-market launch plans, partnering with sales, marketing and support for execution.
- Analytical capabilities to track, monitor and quantify solutions usage and delivered value
- Professionally presentable, well-spoken and articulate for the delivery of internal and external product presentations
- Quantifiable value proposition and value-based pricing experience
*Referral fee of $1,000 will be paid for any candidate currently not in the 280 Group candidate pool who is referred to the 280 Group for a full-time position that we have posted and accepts the position if offered from our client. Referral fee will be paid when we we receive our fee.
