Principal Product Manager - New Markets Platform

Veeva Systems, Inc.; Pleasanton (CA); Remote; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cloud technology company seeks an innovative Product Manager to build its first horizontal application on a new enterprise software platform. The role involves extensive collaboration, market research, and design responsibilities to create an intuitive software solution that meets the demands of the life sciences sector.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible PTO and paid holidays

Retirement programs

1% charitable giving program

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience required.
• Strong understanding of enterprise software and SaaS is essential.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills needed.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with senior management to define new applications.
• Perform market research to design application features.
• Build data models and write specifications for developers.

Skills

Product Management

Communication

Data Modeling

SaaS Knowledge

User Experience Design

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $2B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.

At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We're not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming apublic benefit corporation(PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.

As aWork Anywherecompany, we support your flexibility to work from home or in the office, so you can thrive in your ideal environment.

Join us intransforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.

The Role

We're looking for a pioneering product manager to build our first horizontal application on our new enterprise software platform. You’ll be creating data models, defining application features, designing UX flows, and working with engineering to ensure the platform has the flexibility to support the needs of the application. Translate your own product research into functional requirements that result in a highly configurable and customizable enterprise application in one of the world’s largest software categories.

What You'll Do

• Collaborate closely with the SVP of New Markets and CEO to define a new horizontal enterprise application
• Research the market to identify and design a core set of application features
• Build the data model and write functional specifications for implementation by application developers
• Become an expert with our new metadata-driven enterprise software platform that will be used to build the application
• Work with the product and engineering teams to ensure the platform can support all of the application’s functional requirements
• Design UI flows and work with a designer to ensure the application is intuitive, fast, and visually appealing
• Create and maintain product roadmaps
• Work with customers to ensure the application meets business requirements
• Serve as the application’s evangelist, driving excitement and understanding internally and externally

Requirements

• 8+ years of product management experience, including defining a data model and leading successful launches of enterprise application platform features
• Strong understanding of enterprise software, SaaS data models, and metadata-driven architectures
• Strong product sense and knowledge of how a SaaS data model influences the features and user experiences built on the platform
• Familiarity with modern software development practices, APIs, and enterprise-grade technologies
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical audiences and translate complexity to simplicity
• Demonstrated empathy for end users as well as admins, with the ability to translate customer pain points into application features
• Enthusiastic yet pragmatic approach to applying AI to specific application features, with a focus on substance over style
• Located in the Pacific or Mountain time zones to facilitate collaboration during core working hours

Nice to Have

• Experience working on metadata-driven application platforms
• Knowledge of low-code or no-code development environments
• Familiarity with large-scale enterprise application categories like HR, ERP, CRM, etc.
• Exposure to agile methodologies and product management tools like JIRA, Confluence, or similar
• Experience building products for global, multi-language markets
• Background in a successful enterprise SaaS company, startup, or fast-paced environment where adaptability is key

Perks & Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance
• Flexible PTO and company paid holidays
• Retirement programs
• 1% charitable giving program

Compensation

• Base pay: $150,000 - $250,000
• The salary range listed here has been provided to comply with local regulations and represents a potential base salary range for this role. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range above or below, depending on experience and location. We look at compensation for each individual and base our offer on your unique qualifications, experience, and expected contributions. This position may also be eligible for other types of compensation in addition to base salary, such as variable bonus and/or stock bonus.

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Veeva’s headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries around the world.

Veeva is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristics protected by local laws, regulations, or ordinances. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need when applying for a role or in our recruitment process, please contact us [e-mail].