Technical Product Manager
Looking for a Technical Product Manager to help drive the tactical execution efforts for our Engine & Engine-as-a-Service initiatives. The Engine & Engine-as-a-Service teams are focused on high-speed analytic processing by utilizing modern architectures for parallel execution, parsing and optimizing complex workflows while simultaneously leveraging the performance and scaling of Engine-as-a-Service functions & analytics. This role, as part of the Product Management organization, will focus on translating the business value of product initiatives into functional features and will work day-to-day with the Engine & Engine-as-a-Service development teams to deliver business value, as well as guiding others on how development initiatives fit into the holistic product vision.
Responsibilities:
- Work with development teams to organize and manage large scope projects from initial design concept phase through life cycle of products.
- Understand and help to communicate the business value of product initiatives; collaborate with Product Managers to kick off initiatives with development teams and facilitate the process to break those initiatives into feature and user story-level requirements.
- Collaborate with development team leaders to drive the planning process.
- Ensure development efforts will meet the business requirements and timelines of the project, with a focus on quality and timely delivery of scheduled features; decision-maker for user-facing functionality.
- Participate in development team ceremonies including stand ups, story refinements and team retrospectives, to align the team towards a successful delivery cycle.
- Responsible for feature and user story acceptance on one or more development teams, where features or stories have customer-facing value.
- Primary point of contact for inward-facing stakeholders (i.e. development, QA, UX, technical writing and all supporting teams) regarding the value of development initiatives and relationship to product vision.
- Collaborates with Product Managers to understand Engine & Engine-as-a-Service goals and help prioritize initiatives supporting those goals.
- Responsible for maintaining a prioritized feature backlog and communicating priorities to the Product Development Team.
- Help to identify, manage and communicate initiative and feature risks and dependencies across multiple teams.
- Collaborate with Product Managers to review and respond to feedback via the Beta Program.
- Collaborate with QA and Customer Support teams to prioritize resolution of customer issues related to Engine & Engine-as-a-Service functionality.
- Approves QA test plans for customer-facing requirements.
- Manages multiple projects and tasks simultaneously while meeting and maintaining reasonable timelines.
- Monitors and manages successful delivery of features defined in the product roadmap with respective teams throughout the development life cycle; works to identify risks and remove impediments; discovers opportunities for improvement and keeps senior management and others informed.
Requirements:
- 3+ years of Product Management or equivalent experience in the enterprise software industry.
- Detail oriented with critical thinking skills - ability to break down initiative-level requirements into feature and story attribute level details.
- Demonstrated success defining and launching exciting software products.
- Domain expertise in XML, Multi-threading, Python, Macros, SQL Optimization, databases, Big Data and In-DB a big plus.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Project management skills; problem solving skills; strategic thinking and business acumen with ability to build strong working relationships across organizational teams in a fast paced and changing environment.
- Effective documentation skills with ability to articulate technical information.
- Excellent teamwork skills, ability to manage, interpret and influence cross functional teams.
What we offer:
- Full time regular employment
- Comfortable office
- Monthly Education Days for professional development
- Quarterly Innovation Days fir product development
- Paid vacation and public holidays
- Business trips to the USA and Europe
- Bootcamp for all newcomers in California
- Performance bonus system
- Mental health/sport activities reimbursement
- Medical and life insurance for employee (full coverage) and his/her family (partial coverage)
- English classes reimbursement
- Professional literature reimbursement
- Opportunity to attend conferences and trainings
- Library of trainings, books, courses
- Paid weekly team lunch, free snacks and soft drinks and so on