Product Managers possess the deep product domain and market expertise needed to make strategic product decisions, develop the product roadmap, and determine product feature priorities. This position will analyze the total addressable market and competitive conditions and lay out a product vision and roadmap that is differentiated and delivers value based on customer demands and market drivers. This role will then act as the evangelist to build awareness and understanding while representing the company vision externally to our customers by attending conferences, customer visits and facilitating collaboration boards and other customer engagement sessions. This role will also represent the vision to sales, customer success and other internal key stakeholders
Additionally, Product Managers represent the company by having a presence with key customers and industry leaders to solicit feedback and create buy-in for the product vision. In order to maintain the big-picture vision, this role prioritizes the new products and features, and requires ranking against strategic goals and initiatives by making difficult trade-off decisions based on the value that new features will deliver to customers and to the business. Product Managers also ensure that feedback and requests are appropriately integrated into their product planning and development of features
Duties & Responsibilities
Manage the product development life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities
Stay on top of current trends and competitive threats impacting the product line and develop long term plans to ensure product success
Set product strategy, develop roadmap and create features by defining the why, when and what of the product line
Translate product strategy into high level requirements and prototypes
Create business case to include overall budget for development efforts and monitor to remain within budget requirements
Own the creative and analysis process of generating, developing, and curating new ideas
Drive the effort to determine which ideas should be promoted into features to push the product strategy forward - namely those that will achieve key objectives for the product line and business including financial and positioning objectives
Clearly define what the teams will deliver and the timeline for implementation based on the product roadmap
Create feature descriptions, provide guidance to Product Owners, and approve the product-related requirements/user stories using Agile methodology
Assist the Product Owner in managing the Agile team's User Stories and release milestones
Contribute to setting prices on products in the product line to meet revenue and profitability goals and track return on investment to ensure success
Clearly articulate the product's business value to the cross-functional team so they understand the intent behind the new product or new feature(s) in a release
Update key stakeholders on product releases and coordinate training as needed
Evaluate sales campaigns to ensure that they are consistent with product strategy and that the message is effectively conveyed
Actively participate in the development and execution of go-to-market plans
Analyze potential partner relationships for the product
Skills Required
Create roadmap, advocate trade-offs, and articulate rationale behind roadmap to stakeholders
Have a constant focus on solving user problems in the best way possible
Validate ideas and change assumptions
Ability to make analytical, data-driven decisions an effectively communicate the results
Conceptual product thinker that can connect strategy with execution
Understand and execute on the steps required to successfully launch a software release or application
Ability to influence cross-functional team without formal authority
Excellent time management, resource organization and priority establishment skills with the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment
Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with diplomacy and tact while managing a large group of stakeholders, including when responding to resistance
Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Qualifications Required:
Bachelor's degree in Business or related field
Demonstrated success defining and launching products
3+ years of prior software development experience as a Product Manager and/or 5+ years of Product Owner/Senior Product Owner experience
Qualifications Preferred:
Master's degree in Business or related field
Healthcare industry knowledge
Experience working in agile software development setting