Product Manager

Insight Global; Oakdale (MN); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading staffing firm in Oakdale, Minnesota, is seeking a Product Manager to develop product roadmaps and manage lifecycles from start to finish. The ideal candidate will liaise with various stakeholders and ensure successful alignment across projects. Required qualifications include a Bachelor’s degree and over 5 years of software product management experience, along with strong communication and analytical skills. This role offers an opportunity to impact product development significantly.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience in software product management.
• Strong strategic thinking, analytical, and research skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Solid understanding of Network Infrastructure (Local and Cloud) & SaaS
• Familiarity with TL dev stack: Visual Studios (.net), SQL, Azure,…
• Understanding of integrations for APIs, web services and peripheral device hardware

Responsibilities

• Develop product roadmaps and functional requirements.
• Manage product lifecycles from inception to end-of-life.
• Liaise with stakeholders to define development vision.
• Create user stories and act as a link between sales, business goals, and technical development to meet objectives and timelines
• Ensure development alignment across projects and related departments

Skills

Strategic thinking

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Network Infrastructure understanding

TL dev stack familiarity

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Visual Studios (.net)

SQL

Azure

Job description

The Product Manager is responsible for developing product roadmaps and functional requirements, creating and communicating development schedules w/backlog, and managing product lifecycles from inception to end-of-life. The Product Manager regularly communicates, effectively and accurately, the value proposition about complex concepts and schedules to non-technical stakeholders and ensures development alignment across each development project and related department(s).

The Product Manager will, on an established and regular basis, liaise with internal and external stakeholders to understand the competitive landscape in order to define the development vision, create user stories, acting as a link between sales, business goals, and technical development to meet company objectives and delivery timelines.

Core Responsibilities

• Visibility, accuracy and advancement of the Product Development schedule
• Cross-functional collaboration with work centers for product/development analysis

Required Skill Sets

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with 5+ years' relevant experience in software product management and related
• Strategic thinking, analytical and research skills to achieve company objectives
• Communication and interpersonal skills to exchange information with the Product Marketing Manager, Hardware Manager and development stakeholders
• Solid understanding of Network Infrastructure (Local and Cloud) & SaaS
• Familiarity with TL dev stack: Visual Studios (.net), SQL, Azure,…
• Understanding of integrations for APIs, web services and peripheral device hardware