Manager - UI Product Management

Job Overview :

As a Leader in UI Product Management you will be responsible for the direction, design and delivery of the UI & user experience for industry-leading enterprise business software platform. You will differentiate products from those delivered by traditional enterprise stack vendors and smaller start-ups. You will be involved throughout each stage of the product life cycle (conception, definition, development, release, and post-release activities) working as an integral part of a larger cross-functional team that spans Engineering, Marketing, Sales and Service. You will help us drive our vision for the future. You will be managing set of Product Owners and Designers.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following :

Product Ownership

- Maintain a product backlog of top priority user experience-related content.

- Translate market needs, customer requests, and corporate goals into clearly defined project requirements and functional specifications.

- Identify trends in the industry as they relate to web development, user experience design, BPM, and enterprise application development.

Product Evangelism

- Present product strategy, future direction, and currently available features and functions to customers, partners, industry analysts and other areas of the organization. This includes speaking engagements, webinars, and customer visits.

Competitive Product & Market Analysis

- Evaluate competitive market offerings and deliver on differentiation, positioning, and communications.

- Research innovative approaches to solving similar problems, remaining current on all related front-end technologies.

Cross-functional Work

- Team with Sales, Service, Support, Marketing, Product Development and Product Management to define, develop, market, sell and deliver our products.

Required Qualifications:

- Minimum of 16 years UI Product Management or Web Application Development experience.

- Knowledge of web technologies with an emphasis on HTML, CSS, JavaScript and UI architecture.

- Familiarity with the various technical landscapes of multi-channel business architectures; including CRM, web, mobile, legacy and 3rd party software systems and the key linkages between them.

- A solid understanding of basic software design principles, best practices and dependencies.

- Interest in participating in the design process for all user-facing components.

- Strong client-facing interpersonal skills and superb oral and written communication skills.

- Strong desire to learn and develop additional skills and expertise over time.

- Demonstrated ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative, team-oriented, cross-functional environment.

- Demonstrated ability to apply thought leadership and influence others.

- Demonstrated ability to set up ongoing procedures for collection and review of pertinent information necessary for the management or monitoring of projects.

Additional Preferred Qualifications:

- Direct work experience as a product manager, software consultant/developer, web developer or designer for business applications.

- Experience working in an agile software development environment.