Senior Product Manager

Job Summary

Our Senior Product Manager will be responsible for developing, launching, and managing the lifecycle of a diverse product portfolio within the data center cooling space. This person will lead, plan, and track all phases of the product’s life cycle, from inception through introduction into the marketplace. They will develop design briefs for new product ideas, including specifications, sketches and/or models to present clear, focused concepts that will attract customers and create marketing campaigns for products.

Job Responsibilities:

• Keep up with market and industry trends to understand current and future customer needs for assigned product(s).
• Conduct market research and competitor analyses.
• Collect and interpret Voice of Industry and Voice of Customer data.
• Develop and maintain DCC product strategy. Communicate often and clearly using product roadmap(s) that encompass complete product lifecycle(s) and product specifications that direct product development activities.
• Develop business case(s) for VAVE, product feature additions and new product development.
• Participate in populating an innovation funnel based on market and industry trends, customer feedback, lessons learnt, etc.
• Actively engage in priority setting for product additions or improvements and in bid decisions for existing products or new product development.
• Lead product commercialization activities and engage resources for the completion of key tasks such as creation of product literature, tools and pricing.
• Post launch, continue to own and action the product roadmap and establish activity schedule accordingly (e.g. Case Studies, VAVE, Catalog Expansion, Feature Additions, etc.).
• Create product metrics, measure product success, define follow up actions, etc.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Ability to work collaboratively and effectively with cross functional teams and be comfortable in leading through influence.
• Proven ability to work well independently as well as part of a team.
• Ability to review and interpret data from multiple varying sources to make decisions and recommendations.
• Risk management expertise at all stages of a product life cycle and the ability to identify and, if necessary, drive process improvement initiatives to address identified gaps.
• Excellent communication skills to efficiently share the product strategy to all stakeholders.
• Effective at prioritizing setting and time management.
• Results oriented with proven ability to accomplish goals.

Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in marketing, business, engineering or a related field.
• 7+ years of relevant work experience, with experience in the Data Center industry preferred.
• Demonstrated experience with product development product management practices.
• Experience in a start-up environment a plus.

Who we are:

Nortek Data Center Cooling is a Madison Industries company.  Madison Industries is one of the large