Product Manager

SALARY RANGE: $93,680-$117,096 

At Noble, we believe the health of soil, plants, animals, and humans is one and indivisible. We believe in rebuilding healthy soils and helping producers maintain a strong bottom line. Through these two actions, we can transform degraded grazing lands across the United States, benefiting the environment and society as a whole.

Our focus is to help farmers and ranchers apply regenerative ranching principles to the nation’s 654 million acres of grazing lands. This monumental undertaking requires thousands of producers across the U.S. to overcome significant barriers and change their current practices to work with nature, not against it.

Our Producer Guidance team is at the heart of our mission. They are the key link connecting our internal research discoveries and educational outreach activities directly to our customers. We live to find new ways to generate usable information so farmers and ranchers can leave their land better at sunset than at sunrise. Our education and outreach program is the inflection point for transformation. Education has always been a part of who we are, but we know new opportunities exist for us to expand our reach.

So, do you want to join us? We are looking for a Product Manager

As product manager, you will be responsible for strategic planning, development, and management of a specific product or product line (as part of a total curriculum portfolio) in collaboration with the product delivery team and product owner. Farming and Ranching is a business, and like any other business, growth and prosperity is the vision of our farmers and ranchers. Your contribution is key to the development of educational products that support the owners, managers, and stewards of U.S. grazing lands as they begin or continue their journey to implement regenerative practices in a profitable manner. The work you do can play a part in making a difference in a producer’s operation, their life and the society that depends on them.

You are:

• A life-long learner. First and foremost, you must be a passionate learner: personally professionally, everywhere, all the time. Your ability to lead product development stems from your desire to further your own knowledge and understanding.
• A visionary. You know that the motivating force in all that Noble does begins and ends with the farmer and rancher, and you strive to use your knowledge and skills to guide development of products to help them make profitable and healthy business decisions and improve grazing lands for the benefit of the land, animals, and society.
• A motivator. Your active listening skills and awareness of others and their behavior, enables you to strategically, plan, develop, and manage product development to deliver high-quality products that meet customer needs and achieve business objectives.
• A builder of relationships. You promote trusting relationships with open dialogue and an outward mindset. You identify, cultivate, and steward all relationships in an effort to support Noble’s objectives and help our customers achieve their goals. You are a conscientious teammate who works for the success of others.

You will be responsible for: 

• Strategic Planning and Development - Collaborate with Curriculum Manager and Strategic Product Team (SPT) to define product vision, goals, key performance indicators (KPIs), time and cost estimations, and budget. These may include the number of courses sold, customer satisfaction ratings, and lagging indicators such as customer application of course material, engagement in post-course activities, LMS and peer network participation, and repeat customer rates. Develop and execute comprehensive product strategy and roadmap that aligns with the organizational and product goals and market demands. Collaborate with Curriculum Manager and Product Managers to create a cohesive learning experience and complementary portfolio of products. Accelerate product innovation using new technology to advance user experience, streamline product delivery, and bring new functionality to customers. Contribute and leverage customer data, market research and competitive analysis to identify customer needs and opportunities for product innovation. Document and recommend these improvements to SPT.
  
  
• Product Lifecycle Management - Collaborate with Agile Delivery Leads to ensure execution of the entire product lifecycle for their assigned product(s), including ideation, design, development, and launch. Provide a vision for the product by defining the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and the definition of done fo