Senior Director of Product Management

Company: Storm4
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: November 23, 2021

Job Description:

Senior Director of Product Management ---
San Francisco Bay Area, United States

This Series B funded, IoT company is looking for a Senior Director of Product Management who will be a key part of our executive team, managing a team of product managers and product owners. We are looking for a hands-on techno-functional product leader who is not afraid of rolling up their sleeves to get into the weeds of the product and technology architecture. They are as comfortable writing user stories as they are interacting with customers and market thought leaders to develop a deep understanding about the product-market needs.

You will be the right fit if you:
Understand the techniques and methods of modern product discovery and product delivery
Are deeply collaborative. You love being part of a close-knit, high-paced, interdisciplinary team
Have a unique blend of business and technical understanding to create and present decision proposals
Possess the ability to translate complex relationships and solutions into understandable and visual representations and strategies, as well as present these both internally and externally

Your main responsibilities will be:
Perform market, competitor, and product research. Synthesize research to set a strategic direction and priority for the product portfolio
Build and evaluate business cases to support product investment decisions
Work closely with the Sales, Customer Success and Acceleration teams to gather product feedback and customer requirements
Collaborate with engineering, data science, and other cross-functional teams such as user experience, QA, and documentation to create clear product requirements and roadmap
Create, execute go-to-market plans for product launches and new releases. Work closely with product and corporate marketing to develop messaging, collateral, and enablement materials.
Define, instrument, and measure key business metrics
Create compelling and easy to understand internally facing content including sales training, competitive positioning, FAQs, and sales playbooks
Present with authority at industry conferences, panels, and customers and internal events.
Effectively and proactively communicate with customers and build a trusted advisor relationship
Build best practices and processes for the product management team that will enable the team to deliver products in a consistent fashion

Must have:
8+ years of experience in product management; especially with launching multiple SaaS / PaaS products
Experience in agile software lifecycle management in a cloud environment is a must
Must have strong understanding about the Edge to Cloud software stack, Cloud / Hybrid deployment models, including, but not limited to aspects of modern technology architecture components like Kubernetes, Docker / Containerized services, etc
Hands-on experience in launching Analytics / ML / Autonomous control applications is a plus.
Understating about operations and workflows in the manufacturing and other industrial verticals is strongly preferred
Must show experience and examples of leading successful product definition and releases on multiple occasions

Interested in applying? Please click on the 'Easy Apply' button. You can also send your resume directly to simeon.kirov@storm4.com or message me directly!

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