Senior Product Manager
We are looking for a Product Manager to help us plan our future product direction and bring those features and products to the market. Our client’s vision is to solve the world’s edge data problems. Their software helps customers store, protect, and use data where and when it is most valuable. They’ve been around long enough to have proven products and thousands of customers, yet they’re small and nimble enough to have new tricks up our sleeves. The client is uber-focused on the fastest growing segment of the market and seen as a visionary in the industry. This is a perfect role if you have lots of technical experience, great business acumen and you thrive in an entrepreneurial environment. You will own your products – from cradle to grave – and the company will depend on you to ensure the products you manage have the best opportunity to succeed in the market. If you love technology, working across departmental boundaries and have a knack for product planning – we’d love to talk to you.
Requirements:
- Minimum 5 years of professional work experience as a Product Manager
- Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience with virtual servers and storage. Ideally, product experience with server virtualization, hyper-converged infrastructure and virtual SAN software
- Proven ability to develop product and marketing strategies and effectively communicate recommendations to executive management
- Proven track record of managing all aspects of a successful product throughout its lifecycle from roadmap planning through launch
- Proven ability to make tradeoffs between features, schedule, and costs based on their relationship to customer needs, business goals, software architecture constraints, and software development team capabilities
- Demonstrated ability to write internal and externally facing documents (MRDs, Launch guides, white papers, etc….) as well as detailed product requirements
- Have led development teams using an agile process, writing requirements, using Jira and helping to ensure all involved parties are aligned with releases and dates
- Ability to work cross-functionally and lead on multi-team projects with varied stakeholders such as engineers, sales, and marketing staff
- Self-motivated: work from home, disciplined and organized
- Be data-driven, with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with strong attention to detail
- Upper-Intermediate or Advanced English
Good to have:
- University level degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent
- Understands licensing and pricing strategies and has successfully launched products with commercial success
Responsibilities:
- Product vision – Help us define our product vision and shape the short- and long-term product roadmaps. Gain a deep understanding of customer experience, identify and fill product gaps and generate new ideas that grow market share, improve customer experience and drive growth
- Roadmap development – Research markets, gather customer requirements, talk to analysts, understand the competition, work with engineering on “what will it take” and use your knowledge and experience to propose roadmap ideas for approval by the executive team
- Product Planning – For new products on the roadmap, scope and prioritize features based on business and customer requirements as well as the capacity of the development team. Work closely with engineering to ensure they have necessary product requirements to execute on time and with high quality
- Product Launch – Provide all the product info needed by the rest of the company to drive and execute world-class global launches and lead the cross-functional team to execute
- Product Expert – Act as a product evangelist to build awareness and understanding and support the sales team by interacting with customers and partners, writing white papers and solution briefs – representing the company and our products to help drive revenue
We offer:
- Competitive salary with regular review
- Flexible working schedule, fully remote work opportunities, office in the very center of Kyiv
- PE 5% Taxes compensations, accountant assistance
- Medical Insurance after probation period (3 months)
- Vacation (up to 20 working days)
- Paid sick leaves (10 working days)
- Online English courses
- Direct cooperation with the customer
- Great working environment and team spirit
- Teambuildings, corporate parties and company trips abroad
