Product Manager

The ideal Product Manager candidate is an analytical team player who will be responsible for leading a team of high performing individuals who own the entire product lifecycle from strategy to evaluation. You will also work cross-functionally to complete product roadmaps and discover new opportunities.

Responsibilities:

· Maintain a balance between business viability, user desirability and technical feasibility while delivering software products with a team.

· Work closely with Business Partners to define a product vision and break it down into an actionable backlog of user stories for the development team.

· Work hands-on with the development team to prioritize, plan, and deliver software that creates excellent user experiences.

· Collaborate with the product team to define specifications, requirements, and acceptance criteria for deliverables.

· Help Business Partners understand our iterative development approach and focus on delivering a Minimum Viable Product through careful and deliberate prioritization.

· Work with product designers to ensure timely delivery of designs and assets to the development team.

· Conduct product experiments, user interviews and other validation techniques to gather feedback and product insights

· Create assets to guide product development work (Discovery, Framing and Scoping documents, opportunity trees, user stories).

· Help partners understand our iterative development approach.

· Mentor and train other PMs to help them learn agile/XP methods, product management techniques and build skills.

· Help innovate and iterate on agile PM processes and share our learnings.

Minimum qualifications:

• 5+ years with progressive responsibilities in software development
• 5+ years of experience defining product vision, strategy, product roadmaps and building and managing backlogs
• 4+ years working with Agile software methodologies (Scrum, eXtreme Programming, Kanban)
• Automotive industry experience a plus
• Looking for a good Senior level Product Manager that can lead from the standpoint of understanding the Product and being able to put together point of views and does not just want someone administering a scrum team- wanting more than that. Needs to be a balance on owning the product but also asking for help and being that middle point person
• Will be working with car dealer facing products that integrate with Salesforce and that launches across a bunch of markets and combine the dealer facing tools in Europe. SF ecosystem nice to have i.e. Sales Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Experience Cloud or MuleSoft , etc.
• Agile – to work with the engineers - any type of software methodologies might be good – Scrum or Kanban…Will work in a paired programming environment, so it is very highly collaborative- Pairing with all the engineers

Preferred qualifications:

· Skilled at defining and prioritizing product features.

· Strong leadership and communication skills and the ability to teach others.

· Ability to work collaboratively with others and navigate complex decision making.

· Ability to collaborate well with engineers, designers, and business partners.

· Previous success delivering a product to market with an Agile development team, and ongoing development and support of production applications.

· Curious about new technologies and exhibit a strong desire to learn.

· Practice in Lean/Lean Startup thinking, human-centered product development and Agile Software development

· Have exposure to lightweight product development methods such as user story mapping and/ or rapid prototyping