Product Manager
social media management platform (#567) (Menlo Park, California)
Posted:
September 16, 2011
Address:
Menlo Park, CA 94025
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Building the first comprehensive social media management platform to revolutionize how global brands engage their local stores, reps, and customers, and were looking for our first product manager!
To us, a product manager connects all the dots. Youll spend lots of time understanding our customers, our market, and yes, our competitors. Youll continually synthesize all of this information into an ongoing product roadmap, and then youll evangelize it across the company"working on feature designs with engineers, customer benefits with marketing, and demos with sales.
You will
Develop, own, and articulate the product roadmap
Prioritize a constant stream of customer feedback, sales requests, and team ideas to ensure were always building the right things at the right time
Work with design, engineering, marketing and sales to translate customer requests to useful features, flesh them out, and continually improve them
Manage market analysis, competitive positioning, and customer research
You must:
Love talking to customers, getting to know them, understanding them, advocating for them, and helping them succeed
Love hanging out with engineers and building things
Be an outstanding writer, public speaker, presenter, communicator, and persuader
Have a BS or MS in Computer Science, and experience in software development
3 -5 years of product management experience in consumer or enterprise web
Have a sense of humor (everyone says this, but we really mean itwe might even challenge you to a game of foosball during your interviews)
Your typical day might
Diet Coke, the more the better
Customer and prospect visits and user tests
A whiteboard design session for a new feature
Free, catered lunch with the team
Brainstorming with marketing on how to best explain that cool new capability
Triaging bugs and ensuring quick resolution & follow-up with the engineering team
To us, a product manager connects all the dots. Youll spend lots of time understanding our customers, our market, and yes, our competitors. Youll continually synthesize all of this information into an ongoing product roadmap, and then youll evangelize it across the company"working on feature designs with engineers, customer benefits with marketing, and demos with sales.
You will
Develop, own, and articulate the product roadmap
Prioritize a constant stream of customer feedback, sales requests, and team ideas to ensure were always building the right things at the right time
Work with design, engineering, marketing and sales to translate customer requests to useful features, flesh them out, and continually improve them
Manage market analysis, competitive positioning, and customer research
You must:
Love talking to customers, getting to know them, understanding them, advocating for them, and helping them succeed
Love hanging out with engineers and building things
Be an outstanding writer, public speaker, presenter, communicator, and persuader
Have a BS or MS in Computer Science, and experience in software development
3 -5 years of product management experience in consumer or enterprise web
Have a sense of humor (everyone says this, but we really mean itwe might even challenge you to a game of foosball during your interviews)
Your typical day might
Diet Coke, the more the better
Customer and prospect visits and user tests
A whiteboard design session for a new feature
Free, catered lunch with the team
Brainstorming with marketing on how to best explain that cool new capability
Triaging bugs and ensuring quick resolution & follow-up with the engineering team
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