Sr Product Mgr I

Sr. Product Manager I

About Team:

Brightmine LNRS is a forward-thinking company dedicated to revolutionizing the industry with cutting-edge technology and innovative solutions. Our mission is to empower businesses and individuals through data-driven insights and state-of-the-art products.

About Role:

The Senior Product Manager I will own a product or one or more product features within a complex product. He/she will be responsible for developing a commercially successful product strategy and lead project execution with minimal guidance that is based on qualitative and quantitative customer understanding. He/she will develop strong technology relationships looking for ways to address customer needs and will be seen as a critical stakeholder for feedback on new feature ideas. He/she will informally coach more junior PMs and interview and recruit new PM candidates.
 

Responsibilities:

Customer Focus

• Gathers, evaluates and has a solid understanding of customer use cases.
• Maintains close contact with customers to gain a sense for where the market is heading given multiple considerations.
• Creates processes that are adept at recognizing customer needs.
• Aligns/coaches the team to ensure customer needs are met.
• Understands competitors and regulatory environment.
• Segments markets and understands needs of those sub-segments in greater detail.

Data-Driven Decision-Making & Analysis

• Leverages metrics to track progress on customer needs and ensures that product efforts move those metrics.
• Is proficient at pulling and accessing data from multiple sources, and managing through data ambiguity.
• Considers various options to balance complex conflicting priorities.
• Identifies the most important data to consider and sets KPIs, priorities and dashboards.
• Develops multiple hypothesis-driven product evaluation strategies, including AB testing for interactive products, and assesses the expected efficacy of each.
• Is comfortable to take an analytical, data-driven approach for situations where rigorous data sets are unavailable.

Go to Market & Product Marketing Lifecycle

• Develops clear go to market launch plans through coordinated development with external customer facing teams such as marketing and sales.
• Drafts PR, marketing and sales collateral.
• Develops or supports pricing strategy, if applicable.
• Is independently accountable for portions of launch and strategy execution as assigned.
• Drives process and external communication for products that will be sunsetted, including plan for migrating customers.
• Supports and participates in business strategic planning, contributing to sales and business development strategy.

Product De

• Has a thorough understanding of the broader product experience and uses this knowledge to develop comprehensive prototypes.
• Drives key end-to-end lifecycle components, from planning to release.
• Has a thorough understanding of the company's SDLC processes, including agile processes.
• Helps drive solutions for complicated design challenges.
• Writes clear requirements for complex features or products and is responsive to requests for clarifications.
• Manages product without direct supervision, involving manager or other senior leaders only when appropriate.
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Strategy & Commercial Acumen

• Develops product vision and roadmap plan aligned with business strategy and communicates across all critical stakeholders.
• Understands and communicates the need to show a return on investment and prepares an operating budget for the product.
• Uses knowledge of competitors to inform product decisions and roadmaps.
• Writes or supports business cases for investment.
• Understands how to use data to drive commercial decisions and growth opportunities for the product.

Technical Skills

• Understands company technology stack at a high level, for the broader product.
• Utilizes or extend the company's platform and underlying technologies to create new product features.
• Speaks knowledgably with tech and data counterparts about development approaches in consideration.
• Learns about new technologies to support new product development efforts.
• Is comfortable analyzing data using existing software packages (e.g. Excel).

Requirements:

• Minimum experience between 6-8 years
• Education to Qualify: Bachelors or Masters degree in a technical subject (Computer Science or Engineering discipline) is preferred, but not essential.
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