Product Manager

Clearfield, Inc.; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 75,000 - 112,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

Disability insurance

Life/AD&D insurance

BTA insurance

EAP

401K match

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

PTO + holidays

Job summary

Clearfield, Inc. is seeking a product leader to drive new product development, define product vision, and coordinate across Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and Operations to meet revenue and customer satisfaction goals.

The role involves developing product requirements and roadmaps, engaging customers, analyzing market data, and collaborating to launch successful products with strong pricing, documentation, and website content.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree – Engineering, Business or Marketing preferred.
• Five years of P & L experience demonstrating success defining and launching products.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills, and ability to articulate complex concepts to a broad range of internal and external audiences.
• Proven ability to effectively communicate with several types and levels of staff and external contacts, both in writing and verbally.
• Ability to work simultaneously on several, frequently changing priorities.
• Experience with formal Product Lifecycle methodologies in ISO environment.
• Strong proficiency in MS Office Suite – Excel, Word, and Power Point.
• Strong understanding of telecommunication fiber networks, including both at a system and component level.
• Knowledge of competitive position and industry market dynamics is desirable.
• Safety Mindset

Responsibilities

• Define product vision and drive new product development with cross-functional teams to meet revenue and customer satisfaction goals.
• Develop access product requirements and roadmap to align with key market drivers.
• Field, analyze, champion, and respond to key tactical customer requirements.
• Engage customers and manage customer expectations.
• Analyze problems and recommend solutions involving multiple elements of program planning.
• Transfer customer, sales, and marketing input into action items and follow through accordingly.
• Maintain knowledge of industry and market developments and be alert to competitive information.
• Recommend potential product enhancements.
• Voice of customer – Ensures products are developed to specs that market demands.
• Integrator – leads collaboration as center point across R&D, Sales, and Operations.
• Supports technical analysis and cross-referencing for RFPs/RFQs.
• Identify and recommend action plans to manage EOL issues.
• Ensures marketing requirements and objectives for the program are being addressed across all functional areas
• Gather and prioritize product and customer requirements.
• Analyze market data and provide forecast data for product line.
• Developed and executed product road map and launch plans.
• Work with marketing to create sales enablement material including product value propositions and technical promotional materials.
• Develop technical product requirements, documents, product literature, and drawings.
• Develop pricing strategy price using market-based pricing methodology.
• Maintain correct and accurate content for company website.
• Facilitate product rollout commitments to the Sales organization.
• Communicate project schedules and status at all levels of the organization.
• Drive issue resolution and track action items.
• Identify and mitigate risks including key tradeoff decisions for the program.

Skills

Adaptability

Analytical Thinking

Data Literacy

Organizational Savvy

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/Business/Marketing

Tools

MS Office

Job description

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

Utilize a structured product development process to drive new product development, defining product vision and working cross-functionally with Engineering, Sales, Marketing and Operations to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met.

• Develop access product requirements and roadmap to align with key market drivers
• Field, analyze, champion, and respond to key tactical customer requirements
• Engage customers and manage customer expectations
• Analyze problems and recommend solutions involving multiple elements of program planning
• Transfer customer, sales, and marketing input into action items and follow through accordingly.
• Maintain knowledge of industry and market developments and be alert to competitive information
• Recommend potential product enhancements
• Voice of customer – Ensures products are developed to specs that market demands
• Integrator – leads collaboration as center point across R&D, Sales, and Operations.
• Supports technical analysis and cross-referencing for RFP’s/RFQ’s.
• Identify and recommend action plans to manage EOL issues.

Ensures marketing requirements and objectives for the program are being addressed across all functional areas

• Gather and prioritize product and customer requirements
• Analyze market data and provide forecast data for product line
• Developed and executed product road map and launch plans
• Work with marketing to create sales enablement material including product value propositions and technical promotional materials
• Develop technical product requirements, documents, product literature, and drawings.
• Develop pricing strategy price using market-based pricing methodology
• Maintain correct and accurate content for company website

Facilitate product rollout commitments to the Sales organization

• Communicate project schedules and status at all levels of the organization
• Drive issue resolution and track action items
• Identify and mitigate risks including key tradeoff decisions for the program

COMPENTENCIES:

• Adaptability – Adjusts plans, goals and priorities quickly as opportunities and risks change
• Analytical Thinking – Breaks down complex situations, weighs alternative explanations and fills information gaps to keep moving
• Data Literacy – Makes sound, defensible decisions with incomplete information and involves the right stakeholders
• Organizational Savvy – Reads stakeholder dynamics to build alliances and time actions for the best outcome.

POSITION QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree – Engineering, Business or Marketing preferred
• Five years of P & L experience demonstrating success defining and launching products
• Analytical and problem-solving skills, and ability to articulate complex concepts to a broad range of internal and external audiences
• Proven ability to effectively communicate with several types and levels of staff and external contacts, both in writing and verbally
• Ability to work simultaneously on several, frequently changing priorities
• Experience with formal Product Lifecycle methodologies in ISO environment
• Strong proficiency in MS Office Suite – Excel, Word, and Power Point
• Strong understanding of telecommunication fiber networks, including both at a system and component level
• Knowledge of competitive position and industry market dynamics is desirable
• Safety Mindset

BENEFITS for full-time:

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits.
• 100% company paid Short-term and Long-term disability insurance coverage.
• 100% company paid Basic Life and Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) insurance coverage.
• 100% company paid Business Travel Accident (BTA) insurance.
• 100% company paid Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Additional voluntary benefits are offered.
• 401K plan: Maximum match is 4.5% of the first 6% of contribution.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan:
• Clearfield's Time Off Policy includes Paid Time Off (PTO) beginning at three weeks annually, accrued on the first of the month, starting on the day of hire. The policy also includes nine paid holidays each calendar year, and one 8-hour day of Volunteering Time-Off.

SALARY RANGE:

$74,766 - $93,457 - $112,149; Bonus Eligible

An offer of employment will be extended at a level consistent with the experience and qualifications of the candidate. This information reflects the anticipated salary range for this position at the time of posting. Please note that this range represents the full base salary range for the role, and hiring at or near the top of the range is uncommon. The salary range may be modified in the future, and actual compensation may vary from the posting based on various factors such as geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level.