Sr. Product Manager
Highspot
Job Summary
As a Senior Product Manager at Highspot, you will be an integral part of the Product Management team, working closely with design, user research, and engineering. You will be responsible for managing projects and features, solving complex customer problems, and contributing to the growth of the product and the team. This role involves creating strategic roadmaps, prioritizing problems, defining requirements, and managing the product development process. You will be expected to become an expert on Highspot's software, customers, and market, while also collaborating with various teams to ensure objectives are met and feedback is incorporated. The ideal candidate should be a skilled communicator capable of driving enterprise-level customer conversations and collaborating with other disciplines.
Must Have
- 5+ years of product management experience in agile environments.
- Experience working on complex user scenarios and systems.
- Ability to define strategic roadmaps using multiple inputs.
- Strong communication skills to articulate strategies to various stakeholders.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams to ship products.
- Strong data skills in quantitative analytics and user research.
Job Description
About Highspot
Responsibilities
- You will work with customers and stakeholders to create a strategic roadmap, prioritize problems, and define requirements, then manage the backlog through the product development process from discovery to general availability.
- You will become an expert on our software, customer, and our market, as well as be able to identify, prioritize and execute on both tactical and strategic projects.
- You work well cross-functionally with other teams such as executives, product marketing, customer success and make sure their objectives are met, opinions are considered, and plans communicated.
- You will collect and analyze feedback from customers, stakeholders and other teams to shape requirements, features and end products.
- You will dig deep into customer and usage data to identify opportunities and evaluate the success of our efforts.
- You will work closely with industry experts to understand industry direction and trends and identify opportunities for R&D that can set us apart from the competition.
Required Qualifications
- This is a senior-level position. You have been building software products for some time and have 5+ years of experience shipping products as a PM in an agile / scrum / kanban environment.
- You have experience working on complex user scenarios, with multiple personas interacting through the tool.
- You have experience understanding intricate systems, and partnering with Design to deliver simple, yet powerful, user experiences.
- You are incredibly detail oriented, and enjoy polishing the experience of your customers.
- You are experienced at taking ideas and ambiguous data, defining the right outcome, and then mapping the right roadmap/backlog to get there.
- You have experience defining a strategic roadmap, leveraging multiple inputs such as user research, customer data and company initiatives.
- You can communicate and articulate the strategy and roadmap to execs, team members and customers.
- You have worked with engineering teams as a product owner and have demonstrable experience leading cross-functional teams to ship high-quality products.
- This is a technical role, you will be able to work directly with senior engineers and instinctively understand technical concepts and trade-offs.
- You are able to comfortably handle many concurrent projects and to do's, and instinctively re-prioritize often without needing guidance. Highspot is in the growth/scale stage and you will be comfortable with the level of ambiguity and workload that entails.
- You are a strong communicator and can lead teams through difficult decisions.
- You have strong data skills in quantitative analytics and qualitative user research.
- You have the ability to roll up your sleeves and pick up work outside of your role definition when you need to