Nucleus Software - Product Manager

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. New Product Incubation

2. Product Profitability

3. Product Marketing

4. Product Roadmap Management

5. People Management

ACCOUNTABILITIES

Functional responsibilities:

New Product Incubation

- Assist the senior leadership of Product Management in generating, screening, and prioritizing new ideas, including

- identifying new ideas

- viability and risk assessment

- work with Marketing, Sales, Analytics and Finance partners to validate and socialize business case

- development of strategic roadmaps and high level product blueprints

- Manage communications across the enterprise to ensure internal visibility to new product concepts and progress

- pipeline management

Product Profitability

- Build and maintain close business relationships with key customers worldwide

- Conduct research and market analysis and understand the capabilities and functionalities necessary to ensure the Company's solutions remain relevant, comprehensive and innovative in terms of competitive advantages offered

Product Marketing

- Develop and coordinate product enhancements plans with cross-functional teams, including marketing, sales, account management and customer support

- Work with Marketing Communications professionals to develop product launch plans, promotional programs and collateral materials

Product Roadmap Management

- Support business model analysis for new and emerging products, including but not limited to, product bundling and pricing strategies

- Provide technical insights throughout the sales process by functioning as the technical subject matter expert during client interactions, including providing input on sales calls and product demos

- Own the software development roadmap, ensure alignment with overall business strategy, drive the software development life cycle, and enable the successful market adoption of new software releases

- Once a client is engaged, work closely with the project manager to gather and prioritize user needs, translate needs to requirements, articulate key development milestones to senior management, and guide these requirements from concept to commercialization

- Identify synergies with other products and with other divisions within Nucleus

- Define outbound and internal training requirements for the sales and support teams

- Track and report product key performance indicators during early introduction/pilot phase and on an ongoing basis once product is mature

People Management

- Lead a team of product management professionals, to ensure successful product launch, positioning and Selling

- Enhance productivity through training and tools

- Drive a high level of employee engagement by effectively communicating company strategy and product vision

- Evangelize a product management culture within the organization, including establishment of product development gating processes, best practices, and policies

- Mentor and coach the team members and drive internal convergence where necessitated through consultative leadership

Behavioural Skills:

- Strong initiative, high energy and impeccable integrity

- Excellent interpersonal and written and oral communications skills and comfortable presenting to high level audiences both internally and externally

- Ability to work both independently and in a team environment

- Clear ability to effectively influence cross-functional teams without formal authority

- Professional presence and ability to create rapport with senior level and CxO decision makers and the ability to build professional and trusting relationships