Sr Product Manager, Informix/Warehouse Modernization

Position Summary:

The Senior Product Manager works as part of a team responsible for product management across the full product life cycle and often engages with sales and technical teams to ensure new products and features are delivered with the highest quality and in accordance with customer needs.

As a senior member of the team and subject matter expert, they will work across a broad scope of product features and projects and address the more complex problems.

Primary Accountabilities:

• Lead the design and end-to-end execution of business cases, product line pro-forma, or other decision analysis projects with supervision, exhibiting mastery of common techniques and frameworks for asking critical questions and conducting analysis.

• Independently manage multiple parallel product initiatives of high complexity through the full product life cycle; define and manage multi-stage programs of high complexity; make resource trade-off decisions within a product line or program.

• Understand competitive landscape and own the creation of a winning competitive strategy for a major product line, including implications for customer segmentation, profitability, and feasibility; designs and manages roadmaps for new products, enhancements, and end-of-life.

• In collaboration with cross-functional teams, define and execute go-to-market strategy for high complexity initiatives with independence, and for large multi-stage programs does so with supervision; support sales efforts with product line-level expertise.

• Be the owner of a Product(s) roadmap; develop a point of view based on a variety of inputs and desired outcomes, typically planning three months ahead.

• Independently able to set strategic team specific OKRs and evaluate/prioritize initiatives to achieve those outcomes.

• Able to assess high level technical feasibility and tradeoffs to help prioritization efforts.

• Communicate with the team, product leadership and key stakeholders frequently and effectively.

• Effectively communicate the product strategy and motivate the full team that contributes to product delivery.

• Able to take a variety of diverse inputs and synthesize them into a compelling product story with little to no support.

• Comfortable creating and giving presentations to senior levels of the company.

• Develop an opinion and argue persuasively and constructively.

• Provide cross functional influence within specific domain(s) of expertise; network with senior internal and external parties in their own area of expertise, when needed.

• Ensure ideas are heard and respectfully challenge the ideas of others; advocate a position and encourage others with a sense of shared purpose and exciting possibilities.

• Talk to a range of customers using their area of product and beyond, always looking for deeper insight; is recognized internally as an expert in customer problems for their area of product and is able to use this insight to effectively create the best possible value in their product area.

• Anchor decisions in research; use research as a key input into problem and solution definition; proactively define the problems for their area of product we should be seeking to understand.

• Committed ownership of the problem through to the solution within and across teams, peers, and partners.

• Ensure the team internalizes prioritized slices of functionality defined for iterative delivery (including the WHY, to develop empathy and drive creative technical solutioning.

• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies; write user stories for complex features.

• Able to break down work into smallest possible user story and identify proper sequencing of development tasks.

• Able to spot product quality risks early and proactively work with partners to ensure final product quality is high; contribute to QA testing of product and features.

• Identify and anticipate risks and issues and proactively find solutions to any obstacles.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in marketing, business, technology or related area

• 6-8 years of related work experience; or any equivalent combination of experience and training that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to complete the major responsibilities/essential functions of the position

• Product Owner Certification

• Proficient with Google Suite and Microsoft Office Suite

Individual Competencies:

• Communication: Ability to give and receive messages and information in written, oral, and visual formats in a clear and succinct way for a complete understanding of meaning and intent.

• Collaborative: Works collaboratively with others to achieve group goals and objectives.

• Problem solving: Gathers and analyzes information to generate and evaluate potential solutions to problems, issues and challenges while weighing the accuracy and relevance of the facts, data and information.

• Influence: Persuades or convinces others to support an idea, agenda, or direction through establishing credibility, using data and facts for support, directly addressing a person's concerns or issues, and making connections while wielding power and authority in an effective and fair manner.

• Effective Execution: Translates broad conceptual understanding of the company's strategy into a tactical plan of how it will happen including who will take on which tasks in what sequence, how long those tasks will take, how much the tasks cost, and how each task affects subsequent activities.

• Curious: A desire to inquire and learn, to seek new knowledge and wisdom, and to listen to the contributions of others with a genuine interest to better self, the team, and the organization.

• Innovative: Ability to develop, sponsor, or support the introduction of new and improved methods, products, procedures or technologies.

• Urgency: Maintains a sense of urgency to complete tasks and accomplish goals. Proactively works through problems and keeps initiatives moving forward despite challenges

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the major job responsibilities (essential functions) of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the major job responsibilities. This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, or qualifications associated with the job.

While performing the duties of this job, the associate is: 

• Regularly required to use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls, and reach with hands or arms.

• Regularly required to talk or hear and read instructions on a computer monitor and/or printed on paper.

• Occasionally required to stand, kneel or stoop, and lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

• Regularly required to view items at an extremely close range and must be able to adjust and readjust focus.

Occasionally: Job requires this activity up to 33% of the time

Frequently: Job requires this activity between 33% - 66% of the time

Regularly: Job requires this activity more than 66% of the time

Safety: Support a safe work environment by following safety rules and regulations and reporting all safety hazards.

As an Inmar Associate, you:

• Put clients first and consistently display a positive attitude and behaviors that demonstrate an awareness and willingness to listen and respond to clients in order to meet their short-term and long-term needs, requirements and exceed their expectations.

• Treat clients and teammates with courtesy, consideration and tact; you also have the ability to perceive the needs of internal and external clients and communicate effectively with the objective of delighting and retaining the client.

• Build collaborative relationships and work cooperatively with others, inside and outside the organization, to accomplish objectives, develop and maintain mutually-beneficial partnerships, leverage information and achieve results.

• Set and attain achievable, yet aggressive, goals with a sense of urgency and accountability.

• Understand that results are important and focus on turning mission into action to achieve results following the principles of Flawless Execution while consistently complying with quality, service and productivity standards to meet deadlines and exceed expectations by giving our clients the best possible outcome.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/vets.