Product Mgr II - Gen

Nextens•Alpharetta, GA

19h•$90,500 - $190,500

About The Position

The Product Manager II owns one or more product features and leads project execution. The role owns product development plans and represents feature areas within cross-functional teams, proposing feature ideas that address customer pain points based on a deep, firsthand understanding of customers. The Product Manager prioritizes and communicates production customer issues and defects using relevant data to support timely resolution, and leads demonstrations for key stakeholders at program milestones. The role spans customer research and market analysis, data-driven product decisions, go-to-market support, product discovery and delivery, and feature strategy. It includes developing prototypes and business cases, managing portions of the product lifecycle, and working with customer-facing, technical, and commercial teams. The Product Manager is expected to understand the feature area and relevant technical architecture, make informed trade-offs, and contribute to product direction and commercial viability. The posting suggests 4–6 years of product management experience. Critical experience includes owning a product or multiple features, leading and releasing improvements with customer satisfaction or commercial impact, thorough product development knowledge, and successful participation in customer engagements. A bachelor's or master's degree in a technical subject such as computer science or engineering is preferred but not essential. The position is eligible for an annual incentive bonus. The U.S. national base pay range is $95,300–$158,800, with geographic differentials for specified locations.

Requirements

Suggested minimum of 4–6 years of product management experience.
Recognized ownership 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.
Ability to gather and analyze information from multiple sources, identify problems, and propose solutions.
Ability to make product capability trade-offs and evaluate hypotheses quantitatively, including A/B testing for interactive products.
Proficiency with technologies used for day-to-day work, such as Excel, Balsamiq, Tableau, Python, and SQL.
Firm grasp of data and technical architecture principles and best practices.
Ability to work effectively with customers, cross-functional teams, and stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Interact frequently with customers, generate customer requirements, anticipate customer needs, and prioritize them for the organization.
Analyze market activity, including competitive announcements and events, and anticipate short-term market changes and product implications.
Balance customer expectations with the commercial viability of the product.
Gather customer, market, sales, revenue, and other data to inform solutions to consequential business problems.
Make trade-off decisions between potential product capabilities and evaluate product hypotheses quantitatively, including A/B testing for interactive products.
Manage day-to-day issues and problems independently and identify product insights by analyzing product data.
Support go-to-market strategy by communicating customer requirements and timelines to stakeholders.
Coordinate launch plans with external customer-facing teams, including marketing and sales.
Answer sales and customer questions about feature functionality, pricing, packaging, value proposition, and competition.
Deliver Train-the-Trainer sessions to support operations for market rollout and assist with sales demonstration and customer-event collateral.
Define milestones, outcomes, and deliverables during go-to-market and product strategy planning.
Solve customer issues with product features that achieve business goals and metrics.
Develop a deep understanding of the feature area and create prototypes.
Participate in product discovery for new product development and manage portions of the product lifecycle.
Apply software development lifecycle approaches identified by management, such as agile processes.
Determine the strategic vision and priorities for a feature area and champion future product direction.
Use competitive analysis to independently inform product direction and strategy.
Understand, 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 data and technical architecture principles.
Develop competencies through feedback and self-development; solve problems, analyze issues, and experiment with new ideas.
Communicate effectively, collaborate across teams, build relationships, share expertise, support colleagues, and contribute to team results.