Product Manager — Telecom Growth & Roadmaps

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

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.