Lithium Technologies - Product Manager - Social Engagement Platform

Product Manager - Lithium Technologies (5+ years of Product Management experience)

Role :

Lithium Technologies is seeking a Product Manager to join our team building the best social engagement platform known to the modern world. The Product Manager will collaborate across the company to help develop strategies and lead key phases and dimensions of the product management process around product features used by millions of people on Lithium-powered products every day.

The Product Manager will interface with customers, customer-facing roles at Lithium, user experience designers, and end users to understand, develop, and prioritize product needs and requirements. He or she will collaborate with product marketing resources (and potentially with business partners) on competitive analyses, go-to-market strategies, planning, and execution. He or she will develop key product strategies and participate with agile scrum teams writing and prioritizing user stories based on the needs of our customers, partners, and other product teams working across the product portfolio. One of the most important aspects of the job is to develop and drive priorities for our feature development based on business value to the marketplace and revenue for Lithium. This includes improving customer retention, increasing the profitability of existing products, and potentially developing new products for the company. You will help define products based on existing ideas, and you'll help develop new ideas based on your industry experience and your contact with the market. You must possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy; a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality.

Lithium is the leader in developing software that powers the social customer experience as well as the place to build your career in social. Come on, get up close and social with us!!!

Responsibilities :

- Consult with internal and external customers and partners to identify business needs and define requirements for the product features and user stories

- Manage the Product Backlog and work with stakeholders to lead product discovery and design, help identify and describe requirements, and align the team's backlog to the longer term road map

- Engage in bug triaging, product planning, visioning, road mapping, and release planning

- Manage customers and partners, users and other stakeholders to clarify and document scope, requirements, and deliverable for suggestions coming into the backlog

- Work with Architects and Engineers to develop the long term technical strategy

- Collaborate with delivery team and Scrum Master to perform release and sprint planning, execution, retrospectives and present at sprint reviews

- Effectively present product ideas, strategies, designs, and go-to-market plans to small and large groups and to senior executives

- Contribute to cost/benefit and ROI analyses for product planning with other product owners and management stakeholders

- Contribute to documentation for release notes, training manuals, and other departmental administration

- Perform demonstrations of the product for customers, sales staff, & internal team Requirements

- At least 5 years in a product management or business analyst role delivering successful consumer oriented web-driven mobile products, with SaaS experience preferred. Totally 10+ years

- Entrepreneurial, with excellent ability to help define and understand what drives a mobile applications strategy, as well as an understanding of how thriving online communities work.

- Proven ability to partner with developers to deliver releases to the market in a timely, agile manner. Team player with track record of building strong, cross functional working relationships and focused on team performance, rather than individual success

- Technical aptitude and exposure with modern mobile web application design, architecture, distributed systems with massive scale & data volumes.

- Passion for the customer and exceptional user experience.

- Experience working with social media, including social media management systems, social marketing programs would be a plus

- Able to truly embrace and embody the Lithium Values: Take Customer Success Personally, Build Products We- re Proud of, Play with Excellence for the Team, Learn Fast, Be Real

- BS/BA or higher, preferably in a design and/or technical discipline or with extensive exposure to technical curricula. Successful candidates are likely to have a degree in business, user experience design, computer science, or related discipline.

About Lithium:

Lithium's software helps companies reinvent how they connect with their customers. We work with more than 300 of the world's best brands- including AT&T, Best Buy, Indosat, Sephora, Skype and Telstra - to respond on social networks and to build trusted content on a community they own. Now with Klout, Lithium reaches more than 500 million consumers across 10,000 specific interest areas to establish trust and reputation. Together, we represent one of the biggest collections of data on consumer attitudes, preferences and digital activities. Our 100% SaaS-based Lithium Social Customer Experience- platform enables brands to build and engage vibrant customer communities to drive sales, reduce service costs, accelerate innovation and grow brand advocacy. We are experiencing rapid growth and are recognized as a leader by top analyst firms, including Gartner and Forrester. And because our culture is as exciting as our products, we- ve been ranked as one of Glassdoor's Best Place to Work. Come check us out! At Lithium we encourage our employees to be real. In keeping with this philosophy, we appreciate diversity and welcome all qualified applicants regardless of race, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, genetic information or criminal history.