Friday, January 16, 2015

[KITlist-Tech] Senior Director of Product Management (Sunnyvale/Palo Alto area, CA)

 

Please direct your responses to: mike@fowlerplacement.com

 



Come join this expanding software company who's SAAS offerings are changing the scope of planning in the business world today. The company continues to receive accolades and has been rated as one of the fastest growing companies in their space. We are currently seeking a talented and highly motivated strategic product leader to provide leadership in the development of these cutting-edge products for this exciting opportunity:

Position title: Senior Director of Product Management

Location: Sunnyvale/Palo Alto area

Position details:

This is a very strategic role within the company as you will be a key leader of the Product Management team, you will provide leadership in the evolution of the company's leading-edge products and their capabilities. This means helping to increase the growth of existing market-leading products and being instrumental in the development of new offerings. Your responsibility will be to develop the product plan by leveraging your business and technical background and interfacing with internal teams and customers. This role requires the qualified candidate to be a dynamic presenter that can communicate well with company teams that you will work closely with including the marketing organization to develop external communication and promotion of these products.

Position responsibilities:

• Managing the entire product line life-cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities. This includes creating and maintaining of a three-year product strategy, as well as guiding near term product enhancements.

• Working closely with engineering to provide the input needed to guide the architectural evolution of the product.

• Developing business cases as needed for major new product initiatives.

• Specifying market requirements for current and future products by conducting market research supported by on-going communications with customers, non-customers and with internal customer-facing organizations.

• Developing and implementing company-wide go-to-market plans for product releases, working with all impacted departments to execute.

• Creating and implementing product enhancements and other initiatives designed to improve product usability and increase customer usage. This includes maintaining the feature request database, prioritization of requirements, creation of release content proposals and collaboration with engineering on features specifications in the process of release packaging and functional specification finalization. It also includes final acceptance of releases from engineering.

• Working with other internal groups to design an exceptional customer experience by taking responsibility for the whole product.

Required skills:

• Senior product management professional with 10+ years of relevant product management experience with recent financial planning-centric and/or performance management software offerings such as those from companies like IBM/Cognos, SAP/Business Objects, Oracle/Hyperion, etc. or others in the space.

• Hands-on expertise with strategic product planning and authoring detailed MRD/PRDs

• Some experience with a SaaS offerings

• Experience with agile product development processes

• Strategic thinker with the ability to complete tasks at a detailed level

• Excellent presentation and communication skills

• Enough technical competence to understand the implications of product architecture on product application and evolution

• Collaborative personality/team player who is comfortable with and can drive action in a consensus-oriented culture

• Bachelor's degree. MBA preferred.

For consideration send resume referencing job#TTY100 to: mike@fowlerplacement.com

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