Product Manager / Program Manager

The Product Manager will be responsible for the multiple aspects of the product lifecycle including helping develop product strategy , messaging, roadmap, and ensuring that product requirements are accurately translated into fully functional end user products:

Responsibilities include:
• Contributes to strategy development and execution for company products including short and long-term technology decisions
• Owns Roadmap - Planning and Execution
• Defines GTM scenarios
• Translates customer and market requirements into product features
• Is the product expert for others inside & outside of the company
• Prioritizes product initiatives based on how well they meet business objectives including time-to-market
• Writes clear market and product/functional requirements for all product initiatives
• Works with product development to design and launch products that meet requirements, drive profits & delight customers
• Performs competitive analysis
• Creates marketing materials in line with company messaging
• Determines pricing models
• In the product owner role, within an agile development process, responsibilities include creating sprint stories, prioritizing stories, managing the sprint and product backlog
• Responsible for answering questions and providing clarifications to the engineering team through the scrum process
• Responsible for helping to define scalable user interface definitions through wire frames, write ups or prototypes that explain expected behavior of functionality
• Responsible for constantly validating product functionality and behaviors of completed features in a sprint to provide immediate feedback. The validation includes self validation or through interaction with a customer user group
• Works closely with development leads to validate design translation
• Manages supported ISV partner programs
• Manages beta programs

Required Qualifications/Experience:
• Must have a strong background in enterprise or infrastructure software product management and product marketing
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including presenting to large, diverse audiences
• Strong relationship skills, including the ability to work with both partners and customers on both technical and business issues
• Self-directed; requires minimal supervision on work products and be able to effectively lead cross functional product strategy, prioritization and planning activities
• Ability to think strategically and define strategic plans that benefit Bocada and the ability to drive execution of the tactics that ensure the strategic plans are achieved
• Experience with the Agile process, preferably in the role of product owner
• Ability to articulate product requirements to development and work to validate results are in line with customer requirements
• Strong interpersonal skills with a focus on teamwork and the ability to foster/maintain relationships internally and externally; strong credibility and follow through
• Self-starting, self-managing, execution-oriented leadership; ability to manage a broad set of responsibilities with minimal support