Product Manager - Remote
Accruent
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Posted:
August 22, 2023
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Remote
About the position
This position is within the Product Management team at Accruent. The team is responsible for driving the product strategy and direction to help customers manage their physical resources. The role involves conducting market analysis, leading user discovery activities, and supporting the transition between different stages of the product lifecycle. The ideal candidate should have experience in Agile software development, product management, and business intelligence/analytics. The position offers the opportunity to work remotely and requires occasional travel.
Responsibilities
- Conduct opportunity assessments and market analysis for portfolio and markets to support retention, organic growth, and cross-sell opportunities
- Be the lead advisor for portfolio and drive recommendations for the product lifecycle planning process
- Own the ideation and planning of user discovery activities to define business problems and test/validate solutions
- Drive analysis projects leveraging necessary data to transform findings into actionable information – ultimately feeding into strategic business planning
- Understand customer trends to lead and be personally accountable for building in the voice of the customer/user feedback throughout the product lifecycle
- Define, recruit for, and execute early adopter programs
- Support the transition from one lifecycle stage to the next by leading activities like fit/gap analysis, migration planning, end of life planning, etc.
- Serve as a subject matter expert and product spokesperson for product portfolio
- Clearly and confidently communicate via demos, feature summaries, and other artifacts to both internal and external audiences
- Establish key performance indicators across product to measure different objectives throughout the product lifecycle
- Support go-to-market activities focused on achieving identified outcomes for product such as win/loss analysis, roadmap planning, competitive analysis, pricing/packaging, and product launches
- Demonstrate an ability to prioritize across different focus areas of the roadmap to a release level, weighing the overall capacity of an engineering team and the ability to deliver against product priorities
- Work directly with Agile development teams to create, design, refine, groom, and complete work tickets that produce high-quality software.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a technical, human factors, or business field
- 5 years of work experience on an Agile software team
- 3 years of work experience in a direct product management role within a software company
- Proven application of agile software development practices (e.g., scrum, kanban)
- Proven application of user testing/prototyping paradigms and building business cases for investment
- A track record of successfully executing GTM strategies and taking new enterprise solutions to market
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Business Intelligence/Analytics- expertise in helping determine how to best present insights to customers to enable business actions
- Preferred Certifications: Agile, Pragmatic Marketing, Project Management, Scrum Master
- Occasional travel ~10%
Benefits
- Competitive base pay
- Opportunity to enroll in benefit programs
- Health insurance
- Flexible spending accounts
- Health savings accounts
- Retirement savings plans
- Life and disability insurance programs
- Programs for paid and unpaid time away from work