Senior Product Manager

Description

Vector Solutions is the leader in providing industry-focused SaaS solutions that connect content and technology. Our mission is to empower everyday heroes in the public, educational, and commercial sectors to make safer, smarter, and better decisions. Vector Solutions is seeking a Senior Product Manager to guide cross-functional teams in product line contributions. This includes increasing the profitability of existing products and developing new products.

Responsibilities

• Perform competitor, customer, and market analysis to identify customer needs, trends, market gaps, and new product opportunities.
• Develop product positioning, pricing, channel, and marketing strategies.
• Recommend product and website enhancements to improve user experience.
• Track performance of products to assess success and communicate delivery against metrics.
• Define and document product requirements and roadmaps for execution and sales.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for every stage of product development.
• Provide content to create marketing materials such as product slicks/profiles, webinars, presentations, demos, white papers, and product updates.
• Coordinate product launch activities including working closely with cross-departmental teams.
• Work with the development team to plan, specify, and deliver product development projects.
• Prioritize the implementation of new features and set specific timelines.
• Test new product features before release, provide feedback, and prioritize issues.
• Identify and prioritize new areas for content development.
• Create support and training documents for internal and external users.
• Prepare and conduct sales training.
• Manage product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical initiatives and specifies the market requirements in relation to the business’s product.
• Ensure product line revenue achievements consistently meet plan.
• Prepare and conduct presentations for executive leadership team to measure product and business plan achievements.
• Act as subject matter expert capable of working across technical and non-technical teams to establish the value and importance for strategic eCommerce initiatives.
• Create reports to analyze sales data and trends to make product and business decisions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years as a product manager for technical products or complimentary product experience.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and proven team player with co-workers and customers.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with negotiation skills.
• Able to work effectively in a role requiring management by influence.
• Strong attention to detail and highly organized.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently.
• Demonstrated ability to understand and communicate technical concepts and learn quickly.
• Able to work effectively within an Agile product development process (preferred).