Job Description
Job Description
As Product Manager, you will work directly with customers, prospects, and internal teams to define and evolve the OpenSesame platform. You possess a blend of business and technical savvy: a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality. You thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative, agile environment and love working with a great technology team.
The Product Manager has a bias towards action and a keen understanding of how our customers work, think and buy. At the Product Manager level, candidates must have both a proven track record shipping enterprise products and a desire to be very hands-on in driving amazing new product capabilities.
Role Specific Job Duties
- Understand market needs, think strategically, and drive product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the product domain, in collaboration with business stakeholders and engineering.
- Cultivate customer empathy and develop deep insights into customer needs and how our products can help them achieve desired business outcomes
- Own end-to-end feature delivery, including conducting discovery research, honing user experience through designs and prototypes, authoring designs, creating and prioritizing user stories, and working closely with the development team.
- Track technology trends and validate product requirements and specifications in collaboration with colleagues, lead customers and channel partners.
- Develop market and competitive expertise to assist in outbound product positioning and inform internal development priorities
- Assist product marketing with core positioning and messaging for the product
- Work closely with internal customers to successfully launch new features, ensuring that sales & CSM, marketing, support and partner teams have what they need to be successful
- Measure product performance after a new feature is implemented.
- Analyze and report on the performance of features in production, reflecting on successes and identifying areas for continuous improvement.
- Help identify and establish key technology partnerships
Required Skills/Experience
- Bachelor's Degree in related field preferred.
- 5-7 years experience in enterprise SaaS platforms.
- Ability to think like a CEO to drive the success of your product area
- Leadership through influence rather than organization structures. Proven ability to motivate, lead, and collaborate with cross-functional product development teams and manage interactions across product areas
- Demonstrated success defining and shipping amazing products in an iterative manner, with a hands-on willingness to do whatever it takes from an execution perspective
- Experience transforming product strategy into well-articulated business requirements, as well as using qualitative and quantitative data effectively to inform product direction and prioritization
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, with an ability to handle both executive-level discussions as well as functional / technical deep dives
- Fantastic problem solving abilities, analytical horsepower, and attention to detail
- Passion for the market and opportunity OpenSesame is pursuing
