Digital Product Manager Jobs

Senior Digital Product Manager

Location: 100% Remote (Prefer Denver Metro area)

About the Client:

Our client is a technology company that transforms field service operations for utilities, with mobile map-first technology solutions that power business processes online or off. Customer-driven to their core, they build configurable solutions that solve the unique challenges their customers face every day, from the back office to the frontline.

Position Summary:

Seeking a highly skilled Senior Digital Product Manager to join the team. The ideal candidate has a strong perspective on how to own and manage the risk inherent in product “value and viability,” while working with a cross-functional team to manage the other key factors of product development (feasibility and desirability). Ideally, they have strong knowledge of our market and its typical customer needs, or they are equipped with the methods and product approaches to learn them quickly and dynamically.

The Product Manager is someone who can use their background to establish and own a product mindset and associated best practices, on a newly forming and eager Agile development and design team. As the organization modernizes its approach to digital product development, it needs a strong product leader to help it evolve its vision, use product methodologies to navigate through the ambiguity and dynamism of the future, and engage with the market using a “Sense and Respond” approach. Our preference is to have our team local to the Denver Metro Area, however, other remote work locations may be considered.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute adaptive product roadmaps that align with business objectives.
• Collaborate with the engineering team to ensure that the product (as envisioned and road-mapped) is technically feasible and scalable.
• Help evolve and drive the vision and strategy for our digital products by working closely with cross-functional teams including sales, engineering, design, marketing, support, and services.
• Work with the design team to ensure that the product has a user-friendly and visually appealing interface and that the engineering team incrementally evolves and improves the interface’s quality over time.
• Develop and maintain product Objectives and Key Results; communicate to stakeholders (internal and external to the organization) progress.
• Work with the sales and marketing teams to develop go-to-market strategies that drive customer acquisition and engagement.
• Conduct market research to identify and analyze market trends, competition, and customer needs.
• Use data and analytics to inform product decisions and identify opportunities for growth and improvement (e.g. customer feedback, product analytics, platform performance metrics, etc.).
• Manage the entire product delivery lifecycle including ideation, discovery, opportunity validation, development, launch, and monitoring.

Requirements:

• Ability to adapt to a changing environment and help the team prioritize with confidence.
• Strong fluency in the software development lifecycle.
• Experience in electric & gas utilities work processes.
• Experience with Agile product development and human-centered design methodologies.
• Bachelor’s, or Master’s degree, in computer science, software engineering, or a related field.
• Understand how to empower the team using outcomes-based thinking, not outputs-based thinking.
• 7-10 years of experience as a Business Analyst and/or Product Manager working on digital products.
• Proven record of developing and launching successful digital products.
• Know how to use an understanding of the application, customer needs, client commitments, the market, and competitors to drive prioritization of feature development, opportunity validation, and discovery.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Strongly persuasive and well-connected throughout the organization to understand client needs, prioritization, the impact of product evolution, and performance.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.