Product Manager

Ian Martin Group; United States; On-site; USD 76,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Raise is seeking a Product Manager to lead one of the company’s digital products with a strong emphasis on strategy and delivering the roadmap.

You will collaborate with business stakeholders, UX/UI, and engineering to define requirements, user stories, and go-to-market activities, balancing scope, feasibility, and timelines in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; MBA preferred.
• 3–5 years in Software Technology & Development.
• 3+ years in product management with SaaS products.
• Fluency in analytics; experience defining metrics.

Responsibilities

• Determine market demand for new products and extensions.
• Drive future product direction, roadmap, and strategy.
• Collaborate with partners to define the product roadmap.
• Interface with software development and sales/marketing for go-to-market plans.
• Research alternatives including external vendors to meet requirements.
• Study markets, competitors and trends affecting products.
• Assess usability and propose changes for better UX.
• Document buyer processes and decision drivers.
• Drive changes to sales and marketing based on learnings.
• Manage product lifecycle from ideas to Epics, Features and User Stories.
• Prioritize Features and User Stories with stakeholders.
• Plan software release schedules and coordination.
• Work with Marketing/Sales on campaigns and press releases.
• Demonstrate and train staff and clients on new features.
• Measure success of new product features.

Skills

Product Mgmt

ROI assessments

Analytics

SaaS product experience

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA preferred

Job description

Product Manager

• Pay Rate: $55 - $61.50/hour on W2
• Contract Length: 12 months
• Location: 50 miles within Phoenix/Beaverton (with strong preference for Beaverton Office)
• Work Schedule: Monday - Friday | 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM with flexibility
• Training Schedule: See above

Raise is an established hiring firm with over 65 years of experience. They’re expanding their team to meet growing needs, making this a unique opportunity to work with an industry leader.

Overview

• The Product Manager is responsible for managing one of the company’s digital products with a primary emphasis on product strategy and delivery of the roadmap. Specifically, the Product Manager develops each product’s feature set and acceptance criteria in collaboration with business stakeholders, while balancing strategic differentiation (scope), executional feasibility (resources), and deadline management (time). The Product Manager is a critical leader driving product ideation of business needs, and roadmap tradeoffs with Client Services, Operations, Marketing, and/or Sales stakeholders. Aligned with stakeholders, the Product Manager collaborates with UX/UI design and software engineering on requirements definition, design specifications, user story prioritization, and go-to-market activities. This role may involve market research, competitor research, 3rd party platform research, and return on investment analysis with a focus on revenue opportunities, or cost of revenue reduction. The successful candidate must have a professional background in bringing digital products to market, while successfully managing outcomes, KPI’s, and client relationships in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment. Knowledge of the settlement administration industry is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Work with industry thought leaders and clients to determine market demand for new products and product extensions.
• Drive future product direction roadmap & strategy.
• Collaborate with business partners to define the product roadmap.
• Closely interface with software development organization and business stakeholders in sales and marketing to ensure appropriate go-to-market plans are in place.
• Research alternative solutions including external vendor offerings that meet business requirements.
• Research markets, competitors, and merging trends (products & technologies).
• Gauge the usability of products and make constructive suggestions for change.
• Understand and document our buyer’s process, including where they get information, and the who, what, when, and why behind the decisions they make.
• Drive changes to our sales and marketing processes based on the learnings.
• Manage product(s) cycle through the following stages;
• Generating new product ideas.
• Establishing and documenting product requirements as Epics, Features, User Stories & Acceptance Criteria.
• Reviewing/prioritizing Features with business stakeholders.
• Reviewing/prioritizing User Stories with the product development team.
• Assist in planning the overall software release schedule.
• Working with marketing and sales to prepare press releases and launch campaigns.
• Working with sales to ensure the appropriate go-to-market collateral, objections lists, and channel approaches are in place.
• Demonstrating and training staff and clients on new and upcoming features.
• Measuring the success of a new product feature.

Top Required Skills

• Business education/certification in Product Mgmt. (BS, MBA, etc.),
• Mid tear Product Mgmt. experience –managed their own product with experience performing ROI assessments
• Software Product Manager experience for external customers
• Fluency in analytics – experience with reporting metric definition.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree is required, with an advanced degree (MBA) preferred.
• The successful candidate will have 3-5 years’ experience in the Software Technology & Development arena.
• 3+ years of product management experience with experience building and launching SaaS-based software solutions.
• The position will require significant exposure to and collaboration with major clients, sales prospects, users and stakeholders.
• The successful candidate will be a driven, accomplished product manager with a track record of success conceptualizing, developing and bringing to market innovative software solutions and new feature enhancements to drive sales and entries into new markets.
• Comfortable in high growth organizations.
• A hands-on leader, the ideal candidate will possess experience suited to an entrepreneurial and collaborative growth-oriented environment.
• Fluency in analytics; Ability to demonstrate ROI of all new product initiatives.
• Proven track record of successful collaboration with development, sales, marketing and finance.
• Strategic mindset with a passion for product delivery and user experience.
• A quick learner.
• Strong technical skills and knowledge of SaaS software and enterprise-wide systems.
• Experienced in agile and scrum development methodologies, and a committed partner to the product development team.
• Ability to understand technical product feature set.

Highly regarded qualifications, but not required:

• Usability and interaction design training or experience.
• Knowledge of legal software & services landscape.

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