Senior Product Manager

Consilio LLC; Idaho; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Consilio, LLC is seeking a Principal Product Manager to define and drive the roadmap for proprietary software products. You will combine deep technical understanding with customer inputs to guide strategy and execution in a remote US setting.

You will own the lifecycle from ideation to market, collaborating with engineering, UX, data operations, and QA to deliver impactful software. This is a senior, fast-paced role requiring strategic thinking and execution excellence.

Qualifications

• Requires 10+ years of professional experience, including 8+ years as a product manager.
• Strong technical background with understanding of data structures, predictive analytics, enterprise web software, and database apps.
• Experience in an agile software environment in a Product Owner role with Scrum knowledge recommended.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; or equivalent experience.
• Ability to demonstrate depth of knowledge in the software development lifecycle.
• Ability to write clear business requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Excellent references.
• Nice-to-have: SaaS, AI/ML, big data, information governance or eDiscovery experience.
• Nice-to-have: experience as a full stack developer for enterprise software.
• Preference for experience in global operations and selling organizations.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate strategy conversations and maintain the product roadmap.
• Harvest and synthesize inputs into prioritized epic level requirements.
• Define customer voice and product positioning strategies.
• Backlog management and turning requests into actionable tickets for Eng/QA.
• Define business cases, scope, MRD, and success metrics for releases.
• Lead Agile processes with cross-functional teams across design, development, data ops, QA, and IT PM.
• Create rapid prototypes using AI to demonstrate UI and user flows.
• Support readiness activities for new products and releases across teams.
• Develop deep knowledge of buyers and user personas and buying criteria.

Skills

Strategic product thinking

Stakeholder management

Agile / Scrum

Customer insights

Technical background

Product lifecycle ownership

Communication skills

Data analysis

Leadership

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's in CS/Engineering or related

Tools

Jira

Confluence

SQL

Job description

Overview

The Principal, Product Management will help define, execute against, and bring to market the product roadmap for our various proprietary software product applications. This role requires a keen understanding of our external clients' and internal stakeholders' needs combined with a deep technical understanding of our products and how they are used, to be a keystone between the business needs and product capability. This highly technical role spans strategic thought as well as tactical programs execution. This US-based position is remote and will report to the VP, Product Management.

Responsibilities

For assigned software products, the Principal Product Manager will:

• Facilitate strategy conversations and be a caretaker of the business' product roadmap
• Harvest and curate both external client inputs and internal stakeholder inputs, and synthesize those into discrete, prioritized epic level requirements
• Act as the voice of the customer turning those various inputs into coherent product requirements, and product positioning strategy
• Manage the prioritized backlog of requests, ideas, and defects - and condition each into articulated tickets that are pushed into Engineering and QA
• Define business cases, scope, market requirements, and acceptance criteria/success metrics for releases within the stated scope
• Serve as the Product Lead through agile software development processes. Partner with the Technical Product Owner, UX design, development, data operations, architecture, QA, and IT Project Management to execute against organizational priorities.
• Create rapid prototype apps with AI to demonstrate front end design and user workflows
• Support cross-functional operations team readiness (training, certification) as new products and releases are brought to market
• Become a company expert on external buyers and user personas, including how they buy / use the products, buying criteria and market forces
• The ideal candidate must be a self-starter who can independently drive strategic product conversations, proactively gather and synthesize diverse inputs, and take full ownership of the product lifecycle from ideation through execution

Other Duties and Responsibilities:

• Evaluate 3rd party software providers' technology and product messaging
• Conduct and benchmark technical and positioning competitive analysis and communicate learnings across the organization
• Generate original authored, external client- and internal stakeholder-facing featured article, selling and training content consistent with our positioning and highlighting key product features
• Understand core usage metrics of all solutions within the defined scope. Understand core business metrics such as revenue, billed and unbilled labor hours, gross margins, rework, etc.
• Support RFP/RFI responses

Qualifications

Experience and Requirements:

• Must have 10+ years of professional experience, including 8+ years of progressive experience as a product manager
• Must have a strong technical background with understanding of data structures, predictive analytics, enterprise web software, and database applications
• Must have experience in an agile software development environment in a Product Owner role with working knowledge of agile processes (preferably experience with the Scrum framework).
• Must have Computer Science, Engineering, or related bachelor's degree; or equivalent experience
• Must be able to prove depth of knowledge in software development lifecycle
• Must be able to demonstrate effectiveness at writing business requirements
• Must have outstanding references
• Preference: experience with SaaS, AI / Machine Learning, big data, information governance or electronic discovery (eDiscovery) spaces
• Preference: experience as a full stack software developer for enterprise software
• Preference working in global operations and selling organizations

Other Requirements:

• The Principal Product Manager is someone who thrives amidst the challenges of a fast-paced, start-up style environment (within the larger Consilio entity) where there is perpetually more to do than time will allow. This individual will need to be comfortable with owning the responsibility to balance competing interests, formulate opinions and engage in those activities that are of top priority in that moment.
• This person will also need to exhibit a spirit of innovation and has a natural eye toward how to evolve the business' practices. This person must possess an entrepreneurial thread and must be comfortable pushing the boundaries beyond what has been historically done, and what others may be doing.
• The Principal Product Manager will be a positive change agent. Innovation comes with a responsibility to educate, convince, and drive adoption of new tools/technology and approaches. Thus, this individual will be a tireless agent of evolution as a champion for the new capabilities created through the software development engine. You are a strategic and highly progressive thinker with the with the ability to rapidly deliver quality analysis, content, and other deliverables when needed
• Must be excellent at prioritizing work to that which is most meaningful and impactful to our business
• Must show exceptional partnering skills, demonstrate ability to influence and facilitate change in a global organization
• Must exhibit comfort demoing product and presenting in front of discerning external and internal audiences
• Ability to rapidly master the understanding of complex markets and products
• Must exhibit excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Must be comfortable and poised when speaking with variety of internal and external client stakeholders, at various levels of seniority
• Must be able to assemble disparate data points into a unified, cogent vision of how the business ought to proceed
• Strong project management and organizational skills. Capable of balancing multiple projects and goals. Detail orientation where it matters.
• Must show agility; as business needs change, so too must priorities and direction - to this role will require a general comfort with ambiguity and vagaries that are natural within our business
• Must be accountable to the business for delivering excellent work product to the business, winning advocacy both internally and externally for the growth initiatives this role will champion
• Must show high level of professionalism

Location:

• This is a remote position within the continental US; on-camera presence required for most virtual meetings
• Must be able to travel up to 5% to Consilio offices, client meetings, events, or trade association events around the world

Consilio's True North Values

• Client Experience | Listen for the "why". Clearly define success. Be accountable. Go the extra distance to create moments that matter.
• Collaboration | Treat everyone with respect. Welcome diverse views. Partner across geography, generations, and teams. Rally around final decisions.
• Innovation | Always be curious (ABC). Challenge the status quo. Experiment and fail forward. Build for the future.
• Grit | Focus on what matters. Work with passion and persistence. Think like an owner. Deliver results you’re proud of.

Consilio, LLC isan EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

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