Description
At upland software, you’ll find smart, creative teams who love working together to deliver value for our customers, and a global culture of growth and possibilityOur operating model has always supported remote work—and as we keep growing and evolving our workplace, that won’t changeWe’re passionateWe’re proactiveWe take pride in our work, and we love a good challengeSound like you?
Opportunity summary
As a world class provider of enterprise sales enablement and marketing software, we partner with our 800+ clients to power their revenue teams.
We’re looking for a senior product manager that will shape the future of the upland qvidian product and help transform how revenue teams performIn this role, you will own the strategic product roadmap, as well as successful product releases and delivery to marketWe have a great team who will be here to support and help you get to know the business and our customers.
You will build products from existing ideas, and help to develop new ideas based on your industry experience and your contact with customers and prospectsYou must possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy; a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a realityYou must enjoy spending time in the market to understand their problems, and find innovative solutions for the broader market.
As the senior product manager, you will be working closely with product leadership, designers and engineers in a highly collaborative and agile environment to drive the product roadmap – from strategic planning to requirements to delivery.
Core responsibilities include:
Strategy and roadmap
Understand and frame the problems the product is solving by leveraging research and user testing activities and forging strong communicative relationships with your customers to inform and validate the product strategy and roadmap.
Manage the product roadmap from strategic planning to detailed product requirements to whole product delivery.
Follow and augment product management best practices.
Discovery & research with customers & prospects to identify insights that drive current and future product ideas.
Communicate with all areas and levels of the company, serving as the internal and external evangelist for your product offering.
Execution management
Ensure new product releases are successfully delivered to market quickly and efficiently, working with all departments to execute.
Work closely with design to coordinate user research to define concepts and quickly iterate on potential solutions collaboratively.
Support the team during development, working closely with designers and engineers
Enablement of internal teams (marketing, sales, and customer success) so they can properly market, sell, and support the product.
Management and mentorship of the product managers/product owners in your team.
Skills and experience you’ll need
At least5 years of experience with a record of success defining strategic product roadmaps and launching successful digital products that have shipped (not just websites, proofs of concept, or prototypes).
Experience managing complex enterprise products.
Experience working on agile development teams.
Demonstrated ability to partner with design and engineers to bring great products to life.
You’d be a great fit if...
You’re an adept communicator
You communicate verbally and in a written format with skill and poise.
You have an insatiable curiosity
You relish examining a problem space and are comfortable navigating ambiguityYou’re curious not only about users, but the products and the business that aim to serve them.
You’re deeply empathetic
You demonstrate deep empathy by understanding the context and drivers that explain users’ motivations and behaviorsYou build a common understanding of the user to the larger team.
You’re strategic
You comfortably balance user needs, business objectives, and technical constraints.
You’re oriented toward the team
You strive to improve how the cross-functional and product teams work togetherYou’re biased toward collaboration and deeply believe that the best outcomes come from working toward them together.
By the way, there’s no such thing as a ‘perfect’ candidateUpland is a place where everyone can growIf this role sounds like something you’d be excited to do and you know you’d be good at it, regardless of your current experience, please applyEnthusiasm is a must-have!
Upland software (nasdaq: upld) is a leader in cloud-based tools for digital transformationTo learn more, visit www.uplandsoftware.com.
Upland software is an equal employment opportunity employerAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, disability, veteran status or other legally protected status.
