Gravity IT is seeking exemplary product leader who is passionate about creating value in software, working with a variety of customers to address the challenges This is a highly visible and impactful role, you will lead a product management team consisting of a geographically distributed team of product owners to deliver industry leading products to customers in a variety of datacenter/cloud market segments including fintech, healthcare, large enterprise, service provider, and government.
Responsibilities:
- Set long term business goals for the next generation of datacenter and cloud security products, build annual product plans, and delineate business priorities.
- Accountable for software strategy, all releases, and lifecycle management.
- Define the principles, guidelines, standards for release planning software, including hierarchical backlog prioritization, feature requirements, requests for product enhancements, release governance for content, schedule, and quality.
- Translate product strategy into detailed requirements for development by engineering teams resulting in positive outcomes for customers.
- Work closely with sales to identify growth opportunities and execute product and GTM initiatives to drive execution against annual plan.
- Engage with customers and channel partners to drive adoption of products.
- Represent product in quarterly product business reviews, articulating the state of the business and frame initiatives to drive growth.
- Collaborate closely with cross functional stakeholders across marketing, support, systems, and commercial models to clearly articulate dependencies and enable aligned execution.
- Lead a team of product managers to drive the execution of all processes in the product lifecycle, including product and market research, competitor analysis, planning, positioning, requirements and roadmap development, and product launch of various software products and solutions.
- Attract and grow industry leading product management talent that is diverse, highly inclusive and excels in data driven decision making, business orientation, stakeholder communication and technical acumen.
- Mentoring product managers, guiding them to deliver software releases that align to corporate objective, meet specifications, and is delivered on time.
- Represent product area in sales and customer facing forums, including conferences and industry events.
Requirements and Qualifications:
- “Can do” attitude and passion to make customers and colleagues successful.
- Proven track record as a product manager leader or engineering leader with experience in B2B solutions.
- Experience in all phases of product lifecycle management
- Demonstrated ability to work across organizational boundaries
- Background and experience in networking software and networking hardware.
- Solid understanding of cloud/data center networking, application delivery and application security concepts is a plus.
- Passion for leading teams and contributing to the career development of individuals.
- Ownership mindset with the natural inclinations to take challenges head on and deliver impact.
- Ability to straddle across strategy, technical depth and execution in product delivery.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
- Minimum of a Bachelors in engineering required. Graduate degree in engineering or business is a plus.
- 10+ years of experience in product management
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