What We DoJob Description Summary
Product Management defines, promotes and communicates the strategic roadmap for current and future products. Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to gather insights, understand current business process, challenges, and opportunities. Identify potential products and emerging markets; conduct market research; generate product requirements; determine specifications; create product roadmap; conduct competitive assessments and product positioning; and craft marketing strategies/campaigns for new product introduction/launch. Act as primary contact and product evangelist to build awareness, understanding, and user acceptance. Works with customers to develop and prioritize high level product requirements and ensure customer satisfaction and goals are met. Work closely with technology, sales and other cross functional teams to determine plans for product implementation, upgrades and deployments. Participate in creating and driving product positioning and customer messaging.
HOW YOU9LL CONTRIBUTE
- Translates product strategy into detailed requirements
- Drive the ongoing advancement and planning of the product roadmap by working with internal stakeholders such as Sales, Marketing, Development & individual clients to understand, identify, and define future needs and opportunities. Approves project scope and change requests.
- Execute the product roadmap by providing direction to the product development team for product evolution and priorities, ensuring that the experience gained from external market activities, usage analysis, competitive response, and market research is reflected in future product releases
- Understands customer needs, pain points, and opportunities by developing impactful positioning and customer messaging. Specifies research needed to obtain market information
- Builds deep product knowledge and articulates key product differentiators in an impactful way
- Recommends the nature and scope of present and future product lines by reviewing product specifications, requirements, risks, and appraising new product ideas and/or product changes
- Define high level customer requirements for the entire customer experience including product features and functions, target markets, and pricing. May participate in creating product collateral to articulate benefits and value proposition of Company product lines.
- Assess market competition by cultivating knowledge of competitor products to identify product gaps, assess and address competitive threats, and gain a competitive edge
WHAT YOU9LL BRING
Required Education, Experience, Certification/Licensure
- Bachelor9s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 5+ years9 directly related experience in product or services development
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES (KSAs)
- Leadership presence with strong communication skills and the ability to interact with and explain complex concepts to stakeholders and management
- Experience in product development, requirements and risk analysis, pricing, planning, competitive analysis, and financial planning and strategy
- Experience in working in cross functional highly matrixed environments
- Innovative and forward thinking
- Advanced knowledge of MS Office applications
- Sound decision making, creativity, analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to build relationships and ensure cooperation across First American product companies
- Project management skills
- Business acumen, strategic agility, influence outcomes and change and negotiate for resources
- Successful track record designing, developing, and executing a wide range of projects
- Drives and models customer loyalty, manages customer expectations, solicits customer feedback and ensures commitments are met
Pay Range: $112,400.00 - $149,800.00 Annually
This hiring range is a reasonable estimate of the base pay range for this position at the time of posting. Pay is based on a number of factors which may include job-related knowledge, skills, experience, business requirements and geographic location.
** Note that the following statements only apply to candidates who will be working from an unincorporated area within Los Angeles County. **
