Product Manager-API Full Time

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND BASIC DUTIES

As a Product Manager, you will be responsible for supporting market opportunities, including go-to-market strategy, as well as driving customer immersion, customer requirements, and overall product strategy, roadmap, and vision. You will partner closely with the development organization to deliver the product to market. 

Your primary duties include:

• Create bold visions and strategies for an API/Marketplace for IoT products, identifying forward-thinking opportunities
• Establish and lead cases for change, visions, strategies, roadmaps, and business models
• Deliver customer-data-centric strategies that drive revenue, conversion, engagement, and retention
• Assess market segments of interest and analyze the competitive landscape.
• Identifying problem statements and addressing that need in the market.
• Assessing revenue and growth markets for products.
• Build product roadmaps.
• Work with customers to understand their needs and ensure strategies will be effective in the markets
• Get consensus from leaders and stakeholders
• Facilitate cross-business sharing of opportunities and best practices
• Build and enhance important internal and external relationships
• Define strategic opportunities for large-scale product partnerships/alliances with external/internal parties/vendors
• Develops go-to-market strategies to take products from ideation to scale

Required qualifications:

• 10+ years of professional work experience and 5 years of experience in Product Management
• Experience building solutions on private and/or public cloud environments – AWS preferred
• Understand 5 Key elements of IoT & Telematics
• Having built out and commercially launched an API portal, a Marketplace is a plus
• Previous experience in transportation & logistics is a plus (TMS, WMS, FMS)
• Excellent program management skills to lead cross-functional teams
• Thorough understanding of the strategic direction of the function within the business, combined with a solid conceptual/practical grounding in the area of expertise
• Excellent communication skills in order to influence a wide range of audiences
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
• Familiar with product lifecycle management, software development lifecycle
• Understands and practices agile development philosophies – SCRUM, SAFe

QUALIFICATIONS:

ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS:

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Required:
  • BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of proven Project Management experience managing software and/or hardware engineering projects; Team management experience.
  • 5+ years experience with leadership and direction of co-located, remote, and nearshore/offshore teams
  • Knowledge of IoT, including sensors, connectivity, cloud, analytics, and user interfaces
  • Experience with Lean, Agile, iterative development, SAFe
  • Demonstrated experience in estimation and WBS development
  • Strong communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills
  • Travel up to 20% on an as-needed basis
• Desirable:
  • Project management certification (PMI)

SKILLS AND TRAITS

• Strong analytical, strategical, and creative problem-solving skills
• Business, financial, and technology background, and acumen
• Focus on results and outcomes
• Effective communication with key stakeholders and influencing skills to gain alignment and support
• Experience mentoring, coaching, developing, and inspiring people and teams
• Teamwork
• Visionary, entrepreneurial mindset, passion for innovation, and drive to create business impact
• Understanding how new technologies can shape companies, innovate and deliver growth
• Passion for cloud and mobile technologies to generate strategic differentiation
• Cross-functional collaboration and leadership skills, with the ability to make critical decisions and influence
• Business owner mentality, willingness to roll up your sleeves and do whatever is necessary
• Adaptable and able to work under pressure
• Demonstrated ability to influence and promote change
• Strong organizational, alliance, and project management skills
• A firm sense of accountability and ownership for end-to-end alliance and project lifecycle
• Proven experience releasing software and hardware products to market successfully
• Ability to understand technical subjects and emerging technologies and relevance to the marketplace
• Good understanding of the wider objectives of the alliance
• Ability to work positively with a wide range of individuals and stakeholders
• The ability to find innovative ways to resolve problems.

Rate/Salary: 180,000