The Product Manager (PM) position is responsible for the product planning and execution throughout the Product Lifecycle, including: gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, and working closely with engineering, sales, marketing and support to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met. The Product Manager’s job also includes ensuring that the product supports the company’s overall strategy and goals. This consists of multiple roles in the product management organization including possible duties of a product owner. The PM will be accountable for individual pieces or whole products of Greenway’s software/services which may include P&L responsibility, developing user stories, training, assessing the market, competitive analysis, pricing, product strategy and product planning. The PM contributes largely to the overall success of specific products and in assuring a market driven focus for product management.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Gathers input to define product concepts; justified expenditures for products; articulates and analyzes markets; evaluates technologies; develops detailed requirements, feature definitions and implementation plans.
Assess the market, identifies competitive offerings, understands and communicates their niche, approach and success in the market. Assesses product capabilities and communicates requirements.
P&L and Forecasting management for parts of product or whole product depending on size
Facilitates “voice of the customer” activities
Develops product roadmaps based upon business priorities and communicates that roadmap to senior leadership
Coordinates with third party vendors and strategic partners to ensure that initiatives are well-defined and delivered.
Leads cross-functional teams to envision new product features.
Develops user stories and ensure stories are ‘ready’ for development to start work
Ensures each story has the correct acceptance criteria
Gathers, manages and prioritizes the product backlog, backlog grooming
Responsible for release tracking and accountable for solution delivery
Develop and maintain solution delivery timelines and plans
Works with customer facing teams and stakeholders to ensure readiness and excellent execution
Responsible for defect management, prioritization, and resolution