Product Mgr II - Gen

LexisNexis Risk Solutions•Alpharetta, GA

About The Position

The Product Manager II owns one or more product features and leads project execution. This role owns product development plans and represents its feature area within a cross-functional team, proposing new feature ideas based on a deep, first-hand understanding of customer needs. The Product Manager prioritizes and communicates production customer issues and defects using relevant data, and leads demonstrations for key stakeholders at program milestones. The role requires close customer engagement, market and competitive analysis, quantitative and data-driven decision-making, and participation across product discovery, development, delivery, and go-to-market activities. It also shapes feature strategy and direction, develops business cases and product plans, and works with customer-facing and technical teams to deliver customer and business outcomes. The position calls for 4–6 years of product management experience. A bachelor's or master's degree in a technical subject such as computer science or engineering is preferred but not essential. The job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus. Compensation varies by location; the listed base pay ranges include a U.S. national range of $95,300–$158,800 and location-specific ranges.

Requirements

4–6 years of product management experience is suggested.
Experience as the recognized full owner of a product or multiple features.
Experience identifying, leading, and releasing changes or enhancements that improved customer satisfaction and/or commercial impact.
Thorough product development knowledge, including the ability to develop related business cases, content, and product plans.
Successful participation in customer engagements.
Proficiency with technologies used for day-to-day tasks; examples include Excel, Balsamiq, Tableau, Python, and SQL.
Firm grasp of data and technical architecture principles and best practices.
Ability to gather and analyze data from multiple sources and make quantitative product decisions.
Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with customers, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams.

Nice To Haves

A bachelor's or master's degree in a technical subject, such as computer science or an engineering discipline, is preferred but not essential.

Responsibilities

Own one or more product features and lead project execution.
Own product development plans and represent feature areas within cross-functional teams.
Propose feature ideas that address customer needs, based on first-hand customer understanding.
Prioritize and communicate production customer issues and defects using relevant data for timely resolution.
Lead demonstrations for key stakeholders at program milestones.
Interact frequently with customers, generate customer requirements, anticipate customer needs, and prioritize them for the organization.
Analyze market activity, news, incidents, competitive announcements, and events; predict short-term market changes and implications for the product.
Gather data from customers, market analysis, sales, revenue, and other sources to inform solutions to business problems.
Make trade-off decisions between potential product capabilities and quantitatively evaluate product hypotheses, including A/B testing for interactive products.
Support go-to-market strategy by communicating customer requirements and timelines to stakeholders.
Assist with launch plans in coordination with customer-facing teams such as marketing and sales.
Answer sales and customer questions about feature functionality, pricing, packaging, value proposition, and competition.
Offer train-the-trainer sessions to support operational market rollout and assist with sales demonstration and customer-event collateral.
Outline milestones, outcomes, and deliverables during go-to-market and product strategy planning.
Solve customer issues through product features that achieve business goals and metrics; develop prototypes and participate in product discovery.
Manage portions of the product lifecycle and work with SDLCs identified by management, such as agile processes.
Determine strategic product vision and priorities for a feature area and champion future product direction.
Use competitive analysis to inform product direction and strategy; formulate and budget operating costs required to deliver revenues.
Create product development plans, including opportunity assessments and business cases.
Consider high-level technical approaches when prioritizing functionality and apply technical and data architecture principles.
Seek feedback and take actions to develop capabilities and improve performance.
Ask effective questions, collect facts from multiple sources, analyze problems, and propose solutions.
Brainstorm and experiment with new ideas and approaches to processes and tasks.
Communicate effectively, share relevant information, and participate in team presentations.
Promote cooperation, seek team input, facilitate discussion, help resolve conflict, and identify opportunities for cross-team collaboration.
Build respectful working relationships, handle difficult situations, motivate others, and lead by example.
Share specialist knowledge, buddy new team members, and provide feedback to others.
Work toward objectives and commitments, collaborate on joint goals, and overcome barriers to performance.