Product Manager - Business & Market

Description And Requirements

Focused on a bold vision to deliver smarter technology for all, Lenovo is developing world-changing technologies that create a more inclusive, trustworthy and sustainable digital society. By designing, engineering and building the world’s most complete portfolio of smart devices, infrastructure, services and software we are also leading an Intelligent Transformation – to create better experiences and opportunities for millions of customers around the world. Join us in defining our world of tomorrow and creating smarter technology for all!

Who You’ll Work With

At Lenovo, we manufacture one of the world’s widest portfolios of connected products, including PCs (ThinkPad, Yoga, Lenovo Legion), tablets, smartphones and workstations as well as augmented and virtual reality (Mirage, ThinkReality) and smart home/office solutions (ThinkSmart). We are also building an innovative portfolio of software and services which are changing the industry. Lenovo is creating the capacity and computing power for the connections that are changing business and society.

About Our Team

This position is for a Product Manager – Business & Market in the Cloud and Software business.

What You'll Do

• Building industry recognitions
• Maintain product positioning relative to competitors
• Report on software performance: MAU, DAU, renewals, OSAT
• Maintain database of collaboration market intelligence
• Build collateral to support the software product launch based on development releases
• Report on product ARR, cost, development expense, gross profit and profit contribution
• Maintain software product pricing
• Meet with external customers and internal stakeholders to gather and prioritize requirements as input to product owners

Position Requirements:

Basic Qualifications:

• Customer focus: working externally (outside of Lenovo) and with internal customer / stakeholder groups to organize requirements and set development prioritization
• Bachelor's degree (B.S., B.A.)
• Bridging the software development release to the marketing launch process
• Self-starter, able to work in hybrid environment within a global team context
• 3+ years working experience in:
• Strong presentation skills, excellent written and verbal communication abilities.
• Agile software development teams (specific roles Product Manager, Product Owner, Technical Product Manager, Project Manager, Business Analyst)
• Mastery of Microsoft Office suite (in particular SharePoint, Teams, Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
• 3+ years working experience with Atlassian tools (in particular Jira, Confluence)
• Setting direction for software products, including pricing, positioning, gathering market intelligence, technical marketing, establishing go-to-market, routes to market and building industry recognition
• Building and driving enterprise SaaS software performance: MAU, DAU, renewals, OSAT
• Building and driving SaaS software business performance: ARR, cost, development expense, gross profit and profit contribution

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in leveraging and developing insights from software instrumentation tools (e.g. Pendo.io)
• Master’s degree in a technical related discipline
• 3+ years working experience in:
• The modern collaboration industry (Microsoft Teams Rooms, Zoom Rooms, Google Meet)

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any federal, state, or local protected class.

Lenovo adopted a COVID-19 Vaccination Policy for US-based employees. As a condition of employment, employees must adhere to Lenovo’s US Vaccination Policy and be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, subject to any applicable accommodations. To be fully vaccinated means individuals must receive the full series of a vaccine either approved by the FDA or WHO and listed by the CDC (e.g. two dose of the Moderna, AstraZeneca or Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines; or one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine). This applies to all US-based employees, contractors and interns, regardless of work location. As a condition of employment, you must provide proof that you are fully vaccinated or follow Lenovo’s accommodation process.

Additional Locations:

• United States of America - North Carolina - Morrisville
• United States of America
• United States of America - North Carolina
• United States of America - North Carolina - Morrisville