Senior Product Manager - AI

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The Senior Product Manager has a key role in establishing NICE’s vision, strategy, and product roadmap for NICE’s Customer Experience Analytics solutions. The role requires a high-energy individual who excels at working with cross-functional teams in a technical space and is comfortable in leading a team effort, as well as influencing others to achieve company objectives.  

The Senior Product Manager is the champion for their products throughout each product's lifecycle, from strategic definition to technical design to end-of-life planning. The core objective of the Senior Product Manager is to optimize product profitability by maximizing customer satisfaction through timely delivery of appropriate and useful products/features, with clearly articulated product positioning that effectively communicates the value proposition of the NICE solution. The Senior Product Manager represents customer needs in product definition documents and on cross-functional program teams, ensures product acceptance in the market, and plans orderly transitions of products from one version to the next. Together with Product Marketing and Development, and other members of the Product Management team, the Senior Product Manager will help the company develop a product roadmap that ensures NICE offers highly competitive solutions to its customers.  

Essential functions of the Senior Product Manager include developing market and product requirements for the NICE product/solution offering, based upon customer, competitive, technical, and market information. The Senior Product Manager defines the roll-out plans for delivering the individual products to market, develops product positioning, packaging, and pricing strategies, and champions the product launch process for and within NICE, including with potential customers.  

The ideal candidate has a background in requirements definition, as well as experience working on cross-functional teams and interfacing with customers. This may be from prior roles as a Product Manager, Business Analyst, User Experience professional, Quality Engineer, or others.  This individual has demonstrated ability to grasp, and then articulate, business and technical concepts to a wide variety of audiences.  The ideal candidate can influence various parts of an organization with the necessary excellent interpersonal skills to quickly gather and distill information, build relationships with strategic customers and vendors outside of NICE (as well as with key people within NICE), and champion their ideas and products both inside and outside of NICE. The ideal candidate also possesses strong technical and business analysis skills to quickly assess and remain abreast of the state of the industry. This includes synthesis of any promising new technologies, new applications of technology, standards activities, changes in buyer behavior and expectations, competitive vendor positioning or moves, etc.  

NICE CXone is currently seeking a senior-level individual with high energy and drive to join our team as a Senior Product Manager for the ElevateAI product.  Focus on building innovative PLG API based product

A Typical Day Might Include the Following:

• Work with partners, customers, and NICE sales to understand business’ needs regarding interaction analytics with the contact center.  

• Develop and maintain appropriate “Product Requirements Backlogs” detailing the business and technical requirements for each release.  

• Assist with the development of the functional/technical design for the features and functions called for by the product requirements.  

• Manage relationships across functional groups and influence cross-functional groups without direct hierarchical ownership of teams or products.  

• Prioritize and update defects, improvements, and enhancements.  

• Design / Storyboard and develop product demonstration scenarios within the application.  

• Participate in customer-facing sales meetings, events, and user conferences as a product expert.  

• Perform competitive analysis and become the reference point for knowledge of the competition’s relevant product(s).  

• Communicate the value of the Nexidia solutions to a wide range of audiences, including internal employees (primarily sales, services, and support), customers, prospects, and partners.  
• Communicate in an effective and professional way with customers in and outside of NICE CXone