Staff Product Manager
About The Position
The Staff Product Manager owns business and user acceptance testing for simple products and features, represents technology requirements, and drives technology design outcomes. The role requires understanding product architecture, related services, database and cloud technologies, and competitor offerings. The position works with engineering teams and stakeholders to assess feasibility and risks and prioritize efforts, features, and capabilities. The position builds and owns product roadmaps, manages backlogs and priority tradeoffs, aligns stakeholders, and oversees product and feature rollouts, scaling, and iterative optimization. It researches customer needs, gathers feedback, maps customer journeys and touchpoints, addresses product-experience gaps and risks, and improves processes to increase customer satisfaction while delivering value within profitability and other targets. The role contributes to product vision and strategy by defining customer problems and requirements, exploring new areas for value creation, developing long-term vision, articulating problem statements and hypotheses, guiding prototypes, and communicating strategy, product economics, and go-to-market considerations. It monitors and evaluates data, supports exploratory analysis, communicates complex information, builds stakeholder consensus, prepares reports and materials, and identifies domain innovations, process improvements, and automation opportunities. The position requires experience across financial planning, analytics, financial close and consolidation systems, data and metadata management, cloud data platforms, programming and scripting, enterprise SDLC and compliance processes, project management, and forecasting models.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, plus 7 years of post-bachelor’s progressively responsible experience in product management or related experience; or a master’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, plus 5 years of experience in product management or related experience.
- Experience managing core financial planning processes, including budgeting, forecasting, financial close and consolidations, and variance analysis.
- Experience managing data validation, transformation, and remediation in OneStream and Hyperion environments.
- Experience designing and implementing FP&A systems leveraging OneStream Analytics, including planning and forecasting and CPM.
- Experience designing and implementing FP&A systems leveraging Oracle Cloud and on-premises applications, including Hyperion Essbase, Hyperion Planning, and EPBCS, and working with Hyperion financial reporting tools including IR, FR, and Predictive Planning.
- Experience designing and implementing financial close and consolidation systems using Oracle Cloud and on-premises applications, including HFM, FDMEE, and FCCS.
- Experience designing and implementing data and metadata management systems using Oracle Cloud and on-premises applications, including DRM, EDMCS, and ACM.
- Experience with data analysis using cloud-based datamart and data warehousing platforms (GCP/AWS) and proficiency in SQL/PL-SQL scripting.
- Experience coding and implementing object-oriented programming languages, including Java, VBA, VB.Net, Essbase Calc-Script, Groovy Scripts, and Python.
- Experience with enterprise SDLC, testing and migration protocols, and SOX-compliance processes using Service-Now, JIRA, and Confluence.
- Experience with program and project management concepts, including capacity and project planning, status reporting, work prioritization, risk management, roadmap management, change management, and strategic planning.
- Experience using forecasting models, including straight-line, time series, moving averages, and multiple linear regression.
- Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.
Responsibilities
- Own business and user acceptance testing for simple products and features.
- Represent technology requirements and drive technology design outcomes.
- Understand product architecture, services, and database and cloud technologies used.
- Use knowledge of competitor products and services for assigned products.
- Discuss feasibility and risks with engineering teams and stakeholders and prioritize efforts, features, and capabilities.
- Build and own product roadmaps with appropriate phasing.
- Communicate with cross-functional partners and stakeholders and build stakeholder alignment.
- Identify resources while navigating organizational constraints and dependencies.
- Manage backlog and priority tradeoff decisions and communications.
- Manage product and feature rollouts and scaling, and iteratively optimize products.
- Research and verify customer needs and expectations and deliver customer value within profitability and other targets.
- Build and maintain customer connections and solicit customer feedback.
- Create customer journeys, identify customer touchpoints, and address gaps and risks in product experiences.
- Simplify and improve processes to drive customer satisfaction.
- Own customer problems and product requirements; assist in building new ideas and products.
- Explore new areas for value creation, develop long-term vision, articulate problem statements and hypotheses, and guide team members toward prototypes.
- Communicate product strategy, vision, product economics, and go-to-market strategies and levers for user adoption.
- Monitor, collect, structure, and evaluate data; support identification and application of tools and techniques; and assist with exploratory data analysis planning, design, and implementation.
- Communicate in stakeholder meetings involving multiple teams, convey complex information, address ambiguity, and influence stakeholders with recommendations.
- Prepare clear, concise, logically structured reports and materials; seek and provide constructive feedback; anticipate needs and questions and respond appropriately.
- Compare product, service, and process maturity across industry subdomains; identify and share innovations with leadership; and drive initiatives.
- Recommend new processes, automation opportunities, and ways of working for subdomains.
Benefits
- Medical, vision, and dental coverage
- 401(k)
- Stock purchase
- Company-paid life insurance
- Paid time off, including sick leave
- Parental leave
- Family care leave
- Bereavement leave
- Jury duty leave
- Voting leave
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Education assistance, including company-paid college degrees
- Company discounts
- Military service pay
- Adoption expense reimbursement
- Performance-based incentive awards, including annual or quarterly performance incentives
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
