DESCRIPTION:
The Product Manager is responsible for interacting with customers to drive product requirements, knowledge transfer of product functionality to teams throughout the organization, participation in sales/pre -sales process, solutions reviews, and application subject matter expert support.
The Product Manager ownes the strategic direction of his/her product solution, should be familiar with how solution in their buisness operations, and factor in market and competitor trends to ensure the product is successful.
Interact with customers, industry experts, and other product managers to capture business requirements and sculpt a solution.
Identify new product and market opportunities
Set Vision for owned products and develops product roadmaps
Develop product requirements based on strategic vision, customer needs, competition, and industry knowledge
Translate the product requirements into functional concept documents, including use cases and user interface mock-ups (typically with HTML)
Work with development to translate requirements into effective technical design.
Update documentation of user cases, product description and release plan/road map status.
Support sales by providing product expertise in sales cycle.
Educate support, sales, services, marketing, and other internal groups on new product updates and features
Assists with product focus groups
Sepak at industry events
Participate in Release Management meetings and develop problem statements to ensure the Release Plan accurately depicts Product deliverable schedule.
Manage product lifecycle from concept to sunset
Provide ongoing business requiremetn expertise to members of the application architecture, development and quality assurance teams
Educate others about the capabilities of newly developed product
Understand the technical implementation of the product, including the architecture and data model.
EXPERIENCE:
Undergraduate degree
4-10 years in Software Product Management, preferably with SaaS and/or experience in the Fuel Industry
Thorough knowledge and experience with Waterfall and Agile software Development Life Cycle methodologies.
Ability to communicate funcitonal concpets effectively to other staff members across all teams and to external clients
Ability to take initiative owning a problem or concept and driving to a solution
Works well in a team environment.
Ability to meet client travel requirements, when applicable (5% travel)
Excellent leadership, communication and interpersonal skills
MBA is a plus
**For immediate consideration, we welcome resumes via email to l.mattie@searchsvc.com. | 
