Sr Prod Mgr, enterprise s/w, governance, risk, compliance, MetricStream, Redwood Shores, CA, USA, relo=no

Sr Prod Mgr, enterprise s/w, governance, risk, compliance, MetricStream
Redwood Shores, CA, USA
relo=no

Reports To: Director, Product Management - B. Vasant

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Job Description

MetricStream Inc., a fast-growing Kleiner-funded company based in Redwood Shores CA, is looking for a high energy product manager who enjoys a challenge.

Job Requirements

• Experience in Enterprise Software
• Background in Quality and/or Governance, Risk & Compliance Management is desired but not required
• 8-10 years of industry experience with 1-2 years in an inbound Product Management role
• Experience with creating Market Requirements/Product Requirements documents (MRD/PRD), Design documents, Test plans and User Guides.
• Knowledge of Java applications, n-tier architecture, UI design and development, Web 2.0 framework.
• Prior experience with functional requirements gathering, working with engineering teams, QAT and project management
• Prior experience with customer interaction, competitive analysis and software development lifecycle

Qualifications

• B.S in any engineering discipline, M.S/MBA desired but not required
• Should have experience in delivering multiple versions of Software Products
• Good track record and strong references

About MetricStream: www.metricstream.com

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If you're interested in this opportunity, please send a current résumé to:

B. Vasant
Director, Product Management
MetricStream
vasant@metricstream.com

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Sr Prod Mgr, ecommerce, Syndero, San Francisco, CA, USA, relo=maybe

Sr Prod Mgr, ecommerce, Syndero
San Francisco, CA, USA
relo=maybe

Reports To: VP Marketing

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About Us

Do you get excited about developing new consumer products in a dynamic environment?

• Does a culture of trailblazing & openness to new ideas interest you?
• Are you a leader that can convince others to follow your vision – and back it up with solid analytic thinking?
• Do you like seeing the immediate impact of your work in an organization that launches products quickly?

If so, we’d love to talk to you.

We are a rapidly growing, pre-IPO consumer goods company. We market our products direct-to-consumers via the online channel. Due to our explosive growth, we are in need of several experienced consumer goods professionals to lead internal teams in product marketing efforts.

Position Description and Key Responsibilities

This is an exciting opportunity for an entrepreneurial product marketing professional to gain experience in the online marketing channel. The Senior Product Marketing Manager / Director will be responsible for managing the end-to-end profitability of his or her product category, from creating and sourcing new products to managing the ongoing P&L. This position’s ultimate responsibility is to achieve category revenue and profitability targets. Specific responsibilities include:

• Develop, evaluate and prioritize new product ideas and manage existing product lines to growth.
• Develop the business case for entering categories and launching new products
• Define product positioning, messaging, feature specs, differentiating attributes & pricing.
• Lead project management of cross-functional teams to deliver new product launches on time and on budget. Hire and manage outside resources as appropriate and source manufacturing. Achieve target number of new product launches per year.
• Design and execute direct marketing tests aimed at acquiring new customers, increasing lifetime value and generally improving economics. Establish test objectives, test scenarios and analysis of campaign results. Communicate actionable recommendations based on insights and analysis.
• Analyze competitive activity to ensure the product offering and promotions are attractive.

Key Skills

• Product Marketing/Product Development: Experience developing new consumer products for market including definition of concepts, positioning, features, benefits and pricing. Experience optimizing and growing existing product lines.
• Consumer Insight: demonstrated ability to understand consumer needs and market research and translate these into successful new product offerings.
• P&L Management: Strong skills in managing and delivering both top and bottom line financial objectives, including developing forecasts and managing budgets.
• Direct or Online Marketing Industry Expertise: Familiarity with direct response marketing including test planning, offer strategy, and continuity chain management would be ideal.
• Marketing Communication: Ability to prioritize consumer communication in a way that resonates with a target consumer and converts to purchases.
• Analytic Capabilities: Ability to utilize data and analytics to inform business decisions.
• Project Management Skills: Ability to juggle, structure and lead complex projects, monitor progress against key milestones, and deliver on time and on budget.
• Leadership: Demonstrated ability to motivate people—both peers and cross functional teams—to achieve aggressive goals.
• Flexibility – quick to make appropriate changes in direction based on market changes and requirements of an entrepreneurial organization.

Experience

• 5 – 10 years experience in product marketing for a consumer product or service. CPG experience highly desirable.
• Experience within a start-up or entrepreneurial environment
• Demonstrated success managing multiple product launch cycles, from idea generation to product delivery
• Experience with direct marketing or online marketing channels.
• Experience developing and managing retention marketing programs a plus.
• P&L experience.
• Bachelor’s degree, MBA preferred

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If you're interested in this opportunity, please send a current résumé to:

Molly Rogers
Human Resources
Syndero, Inc
mrogers@syndero.com

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Sr Prod Mgr, PPM or PLM/ALM, Accept Software, Fremont, CA, USA, relo=no

Sr Prod Mgr, PPM or PLM/ALM, Accept Software
Fremont, CA, USA
relo=no

Reports To: VP/Products

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Sr or Principal Product Manager - Based in Fremont with some light travel

Accept Software (http://www.acceptsoftware.com/) provides innovation management & planning
solutions that empower product organizations to overcome market & product complexity,
to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. Accept 360º is a web-based, J2EE application
that runs in both deployed on-premise & hosted on-demand configurations. Our culture
is highly entrepreneurial where we consistently win new business, excite customers with
our vision, remain dedicated to our objectives, & have fun. Founded in 2001, Accept is
an award-winning (AIPMM) Silicon Valley B2B start-up with solid VC funding. F500 customers
include: Actuate, Aspect, BEA, Mercury, Symantec, Cadence, among others.

Your Mission…

Is a Product Manager’s dream job! Using your expertise you’ll deliver best-in-class software
products within the domain of product & project portfolio management (PPM). You’ll
report to our VP/Product Management and be responsible for the entire product life
cycle, from gathering market data, performing quantitative analysis for determining product
priorities, & defining products with features to be adopted & aligned with the company’s
corporate & product strategy. When done well, your ability to make difficult but sound
product decisions leads directly to the bottom-line success of our Company!

Your Responsibilities…

This is an outstanding opportunity for you to showcase your knowledge and execution of
product planning, requirements management & the overall product delivery lifecycle.
Specifically, you’ll:

· Gather/analyze market data from customers, prospects and the industry to establish quantifiable roadmaps & release plans for future versions of Accept 360°

· Work with analysts/partners/industry experts on distilling & validating the overall
vision of Accept’s innovation solutions

· Work with Sales & Services to identify & prioritize customer and market needs

· Create/manage the delivery of product requirements, specifications & use cases to
drive the development of product features & applications

· Lead the definition of product pricing, packaging & inbound/outbound collateral

· Provide thought leadership with respect to the industry & product direction.

Your Profile…

Our ideal candidate is an enterprise software sr product manager with expertise in PPM, plus:

· 10+ years experience in product management & product marketing, with

• 3+ years at a software company with an emphasis on PPM- portfolio prod mgt

· Strong quantitative & analytical skills

· Exceptional written/oral skills, with demonstrable leadership of meetings & teams

· Education - BA/BS degree + MBA preferred

· Travel requirement - up to 25% within Bay Area / ~ 10% outside Bay Area

· Attributes - organized, detail-oriented, collaborative team player in a moderately-paced environment

· Wish List – a) Pragmatic Marketing or other product management training

b) Knowledge of product management & planning tools

Your Compensation…

Up to $140k cash (base + bonus) + aggressive stock options + a full benefits package await you!

Please submit resumes (as a word doc attachment) to: dawn.block@comcast.net

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If you're interested in this opportunity, please send a current résumé to:

dawn block
Retained Exec Search
dawn block consulting
dawn.block@comcast.net

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Sr Prod Mgr, Contact Ctr, BAM, BI, Genesys, SF Bay Area, CA, USA, relo=no

Sr Prod Mgr, Contact Ctr, BAM, BI, Genesys
SF Bay Area, CA, USA
relo=no

Reports To: Director, Product Management

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Reporting to the Director of Product Management, the Sr. Product Manager is the primary business owner for the real-time activity monitoring solution and will own the real-time solution lifecycle, from creation of business plans to contribution to revenue and to customer satisfaction with the real-time activity monitoring solution.

Serve as consultant to other product managers to ensure that each application in Genesys’ contact center solution goes to market with differentiated, real-time information that contributes to the company’s competitive advantage.

Work with Product Managers, Engineering, the Systems Team, etc., to manage the product solution requirements based on strategic product direction, customer input, roadmaps, and general market demands—includes requirements for major and minor releases.

Work with other Genesys Product Managers to understand cross-product dependencies and drive requirements into these dependent products. Provide product information to the field organization, partners, and customers. Design and deliver product presentations for customers/prospects, and internal technical training.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Manage the entire product life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities.

2. Specify market requirements for current and future products by conducting market research supported by on-going visits to customers and non-customers

3. Consult with product managers to ensure each product or solution goes to market with differentiated, real-time reporting capabilities

4. Drive the development, positioning and go-to-market plan for real-time reporting and alerting capabilities of the Genesys solution

5. Work closely with development, operations, professional services and marketing teams to plan and execute the product management strategy and programs

6. Evaluate system requirements for existing and new solutions

7. Evaluate potential third party solutions and work with vendors

8. Meet and present to industry analysts on features and capabilities

9. Provide training for sales, presales and implementation staff for releases

EDUCATION & REQUIREMENTS:

1. Undergraduate degree, technical degree preferred

2. MBA preferred

3. 3+ years enterprise product management experience for a software company, preferably with real-time activity monitoring and/or contact center domain experience.

4. Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills are required

5. Proven track record in bringing new products to market and evolving existing products via multiple product release cycles

6. Superior analytical skills

7. Strong business acumen and decision-making ability

8. Team player who does not require detailed supervision

9. Ability to work well with others in a highly demanding, highly collaborative environment

10. Proven ability to lead outside of management structure. Candidate must demonstrate ability in team building and leadership outside areas of authority

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If you're interested in this opportunity, please send a current résumé to:

Craig Covington
Director, Product Management
Genesys
craig.covington@genesyslab.com

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Prod Mgr, up to Director level, Google, TBD, location varies, Virtual, --Virtual --, relo=maybe

Prod Mgr, up to Director level, Google
TBD, location varies, Virtual, --Virtual --
relo=maybe

Reports To: TBD

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The deadline for submitting your information is today, Wednesday, July 18, 2007 midnight PDT.
This opportunity was previously posted last week.

Experiment1:
Get your professional information into Google

Caveat:

This is NOT an official job posting from Google

A colleague in product marketing and management at Google said that s/he would introduce 3 SPM Jobs members into the hiring process if I selected them myself. This is a bit unorthodox but I thought it was worth at least a one-time experiment. My contact states that the person s/he supplies these candidates to will either be an appropriate recruiter or the hiring manager (50/50 chance either way).

Here are the “rules”:

• You must be a member of SPM Jobs (if you are not, just go to www.spmjobs.com Job Seeker section, verify that you qualify, and request to join as a Job Seeker).
  
• You must answer the 3 questions below, and send them (or a link) plus a resume to experiment1@spmjobs.com by Wednesday July 18 midnight PDT. Please don’t spend more than 2 hours MAXIMUM working on this. I won’t start reviewing till the deadline has passed.
  
• For an official Google job description of product marketing and management, visit their website.

Here is the selection process I will follow:

• Glance at your resume for 10 seconds to see if it is presentable.
  
• Carefully examine your input to the 3 questions, and choose the candidates based on creativity, insight, passion for the web 2.0, and overall interestingness.
  
• Contact the top 3 candidates to verify that they still do want to be presented to my colleague…if yes, I will tell these candidates the name and title of my contact person. If any of these 3 has changed his/her mind, then I will select the next candidate(s) on my list.
  
• Submit the information about the top 3 candidates to my contact. I will then destroy ALL information sent to me by everyone else. This is not an attempt to build a database of any kind. No one but me will be reviewing the information that is sent. I will provide feedback to the whole group on the success/failure of this experiment.

THE 3 QUESTIONS
(defined by Cynthia Typaldos, Founder & Manager, SPM Jobs)

[Answers can be supplied in any format you prefer, but it shouldn’t take me longer than 10 minutes to review]

1. What is your presence on the Web? Point to it. [Note: Examples might be: Wikipedia author, Flickr group manager, Yahoo Groups participant/manager, social networking butterfly, widget/gadget collector, Amazon reviewer, Adsense/Adwords user, etc. etc. etc. Don’t limit yourself to these items though…what I am looking for is people who have immersed themselves (without drowning) in internet technology.]
   
2. What do you think about the explosion of gadgets/widgets? Answer this in any way you find interesting, e.g. What is the evidence of an explosion? What type of gadgets/widgets are most attractive from a business perspective? Will these mini-applications fizzle out or are they the beginning of a new paradigm? [Suggestion: check out the Google website to learn about their new focus in this area.]
   
3. Write a free form paragraph/example/video/whatever that demonstrates your ability to imagine, conceptualize, define, nurture, grow, launch, and manage unique internet services. It doesn’t matter if the example you use wasn’t successful...many brilliant products/services fail initially because of timing problems.

For those of you that submit your information, thanks for participating in this experiment.

For those of you that have feedback on this experiment, please email me directly or even better, post your comment on this job posting at www.spmjobsblog.com

Thanks.

Cynthia Typaldos
Founder & Manager, SPM Jobs

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If you're interested in this opportunity, please send a current résumé to:

Cynthia Typaldos
Founder/Mgr
SPM Jobs
experiment1@spmjobs.com

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Sr Prod Mgr, Content Mgmt or DRM, Macrovision, San Francisco or San Jose, CA, USA, relo=maybe

Sr Prod Mgr, Content Mgmt or DRM, Macrovision
San Francisco or San Jose, CA, USA
relo=maybe

Reports To: VP, Product Management

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Compensation: Mid 100's. Company offers stock options and bonus plan. DRM (Digital Rights Management) is entering a significant and pivotally exciting new phase – be a part of it! The demand for protecting high end content (such as video as only one example) has simply never been greater for media outlets, news organizations, movie studios, game publishers and corporations. In addition, there are important new focus areas and applications, for example, the enablement of access to content wherever you are, in addition to the well known anti-piracy connotation. Macrovision Corporation (Macrovision) is THE LEADER in this space, a $300 million company that provides digital lifecycle value management solutions that enable the delivery and enhanced use of software and content. The Company's solutions include anti-piracy and content protection technologies and services, digital rights management, embedded licensing technologies, usage monitoring for enterprises, and related technologies and services from installation to update to back-office entitlement management. It markets the FLEXnet licensing platform and the InstallShield suite of software installation, repackaging, and update solutions. The Company also operates Trymedia Systems, a distribution network for downloadable personal computer (PC) games. It develops and markets an array of digital lifecycle value management technologies for three distinct customer groups: Entertainment and Content Producers and Distributors, Software Publishers, and EnterpriseEnd Users.

Position Overview:

For further details see the previous posting on the spmjobsblog here.

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If you're interested in this opportunity, please send a current résumé to:

Margot Finley-Aguilera
President, Avondale
Avondale Search International
margot@avondalesearch.com

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Sr Prod Mgr, downloadable sw, Xobni, San Francisco, CA, USA, relo=maybe

Sr Prod Mgr, downloadable sw, Xobni
San Francisco, CA, USA
relo=maybe

Reports To: CEO

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Xobni - Changing the way people use their personal email data

Senior Product Manager

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Xobni is looking for a Product Manager to help set direction for our product and be the voice of users.

Responsibilities:

• Define product strategy and roadmap
• Interact with users to collect requirements
• Analyze quantitative usage data from the install base
• Help prioritize product features and track competitive product features and plans
• Work with engineering team to deliver the product on time and in scope
• Lead selected design efforts, such as developing our launch web site
• Write sales collateral that describe our products for example - product announcements, white papers, success stories, data sheets, brochures, and product articles

Qualifications:

• Energetic personality
• Generalist with the ability to drive projects to completion
• Creative problem solver
• Self starter that is aggressive about creating deliverables / getting things done
• Enthusiasm for learning
• Passion for UI and experience design
• Ability to work well with engineering team
• Strong statistical and quantitative skills
• Excellent communication skills
• 3+ years of program, project, or product management experience
• CS degree preferred

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If you're interested in this opportunity, please send a current résumé to:

Lori
Recruiter
The Talent Factor, LLC
resumes@thetalentfactor.net

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Prod Mgr, internet/web, BIG Internet Co., worldwide locations, relo=maybe

Prod Mgr, internet/web, BIG Internet Co.
worldwide locations
relo=maybe

Reports To: TBD

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Experiment1:
Get your professional information into Google

Caveat:

This is NOT an official job posting from Google

A colleague in product marketing and management at Google said that s/he would introduce 3 SPM Jobs members into the hiring process if I selected them myself. This is a bit unorthodox but I thought it was worth at least a one-time experiment. My contact states that the person s/he supplies these candidates to will either be an appropriate recruiter or the hiring manager (50/50 chance either way).

Here are the “rules”:

• You must be a member of SPM Jobs (if you are not, just go to www.spmjobs.com Job Seeker section, verify that you qualify, and request to join as a Job Seeker).
  
• You must answer the 3 questions below, and send them (or a link) plus a resume to experiment1@spmjobs.com by Wednesday July 18 midnight PDT. Please don’t spend more than 2 hours MAXIMUM working on this. I won’t start reviewing till the deadline has passed.
  
• For an official Google job description of product marketing and management, visit their website.

Here is the selection process I will follow:

• Glance at your resume for 10 seconds to see if it is presentable.
  
• Carefully examine your input to the 3 questions, and choose the candidates based on creativity, insight, passion for the web 2.0, and overall interestingness.
  
• Contact the top 3 candidates to verify that they still do want to be presented to my colleague…if yes, I will tell these candidates the name and title of my contact person. If any of these 3 has changed his/her mind, then I will select the next candidate(s) on my list.
  
• Submit the information about the top 3 candidates to my contact. I will then destroy ALL information sent to me by everyone else. This is not an attempt to build a database of any kind. No one but me will be reviewing the information that is sent. I will provide feedback to the whole group on the success/failure of this experiment.

THE 3 QUESTIONS
(defined by Cynthia Typaldos, Founder & Manager, SPM Jobs)

[Answers can be supplied in any format you prefer, but it shouldn’t take me longer than 10 minutes to review]

1. What is your presence on the Web? Point to it. [Note: Examples might be: Wikipedia author, Flickr group manager, Yahoo Groups participant/manager, social networking butterfly, widget/gadget collector, Amazon reviewer, Adsense/Adwords user, etc. etc. etc. Don’t limit yourself to these items though…what I am looking for is people who have immersed themselves (without drowning) in internet technology.]
   
2. What do you think about the explosion of gadgets/widgets? Answer this in any way you find interesting, e.g. What is the evidence of an explosion? What type of gadgets/widgets are most attractive from a business perspective? Will these mini-applications fizzle out or are they the beginning of a new paradigm? [Suggestion: check out the Google website to learn about their new focus in this area.]
   
3. Write a free form paragraph/example/video/whatever that demonstrates your ability to imagine, conceptualize, define, nurture, grow, launch, and manage unique internet services. It doesn’t matter if the example you use wasn’t successful...many brilliant products/services fail initially because of timing problems.

For those of you that submit your information, thanks for participating in this experiment.

For those of you that have feedback on this experiment, please email me directly or even better, post your comment on this job posting at www.spmjobsblog.com

Thanks.

Cynthia Typaldos
Founder & Manager, SPM Jobs

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If you're interested in this opportunity, please send a current résumé to:

Cynthia Typaldos
Founder/Mgr
SPM Jobs
cynthia@spmjobs.com

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Sr Prod Mgr, Info Capture/Input Mgmt, Anacomp, San Diego, CA, USA, relo=yes

Sr Prod Mgr, Info Capture/Input Mgmt, Anacomp
San Diego, CA, USA
relo=yes

Reports To: Director of Product Management - Saran Gopalakrishnan

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Sr. Product Manager - Enterprise Information Capture
Location:	San Diego - Headquarters
Requisition Number:	1428
# of openings:	1
Description
GENERAL FUNCTION: End-to-end management of product development and lifecycle, from strategic planning to tactical implementation of enterprise information capture solutions. Reporting to the Director of Product Management, the Senior Product Manager is the primary business owner for this product line and will own the product lifecycle, from creation of business plans to attainment of product revenue and profitability goals. Ensure effective product planning, positioning, differentiation and launch, as well as sales and customer readiness. Manage cross-functional teams and resources necessary to ensure the successful and timely definition, development, release, and ongoing enhancement of product. RESPONSIBILITIES: 1. Manage the entire product life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities 2. Specify market requirements for current and future products by conducting market research supported by on-going visits to customers and non-customers 3. Drive the development, positioning and go-to-market plan for information capture products 4. Conduct competitive analysis and ongoing competitive and market landscape tracking activities 5. Determine appropriate pricing, promotion and placement for the products and manage cross-functional teams (sales, operations, marketing, professional services, etc.) in the execution of these programs 6. Work closely with development, operations, professional services and marketing teams to plan and execute the product management strategy and programs 7. Evaluate system requirements for existing and new solutions 8. Evaluate potential third party solutions and work with vendors 9. Coordinate with marketing in creating or updating of marketing materials (white papers, articles, technical presentations, proposals, self running demos, etc), ensuring foundation positioning and messaging are appropriately integrated. 10. Meet and present to industry analysts on features and capabilities 11. Provide training for sales, presales and implementation staff for releases 12. Other duties as assigned EDUCATION & REQUIREMENTS: 1. Undergraduate degree in engineering or computer science with equivalent business experience 2. MBA preferred 3. 6+ years enterprise product management experience for a software or service technology company with domain experience. Product management experience with Information/Document Capture, Content Management (ECM) or Scanning Services products is a definite plus 4. Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills are required 5. Proven track record in bringing new products to market and evolving existing products via multiple product release cycles 6. Superior strategic thinking and analytical skills 7. Experience in driving product line P&L 8. Strong business acumen and decision-making ability 9. Exceptional leadership skills 10. Team player who does not require detailed supervision 11. Ability to work well with others in a highly demanding, highly collaborative environment 12. Proven ability to lead outside of management structure. Candidate must demonstrate ability in team building and leadership outside areas of authority 13. Ability to travel up to 30% Anacomp is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. M/F/D/V

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If you're interested in this opportunity, please send a current résumé to:

Saran Gopalakrishnan
Director of Product Management
Anacomp
sgopalakrishnan@anacomp.com

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Sr Prod Mgr, Info Commerce/Content Mgmt/DRM, Macrovision, SF/Bay Area, CA, USA, relo=maybe

Sr Prod Mgr, Info Commerce/Content Mgmt/DRM, Macrovision,
SF/Bay Area, CA, USA
relo=maybe

Reports To: VP Product Management

See also the newer job posting for this position.

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Senior Product Manager

San Francisco/Bay Area

Please send resume to: margot@avondalesearch.com

Our client provides digital lifecycle value management solutions that enable the delivery and enhanced use of software and content. The Company solutions include anti-piracy and content protection technologies and services, digital rights management, embedded licensing technologies, usage monitoring for enterprises, and related technologies and services from installation to update to back-office entitlement management. It markets the (product name) licensing platform and the suite of software installation, repackaging, and update solutions. The Company also operates a distribution network for downloadable personal computer (PC) games. It develops and markets an array of digital lifecycle value management technologies for three distinct customer groups: Entertainment and Content Producers and Distributors, Software Publishers, and Enterprise End Users.

Responsibilities:

Product: Digital Rights Management

Market Analysis:
• Be customer advocate. Understand the customers' requirements inside and out and vigorously defend the customers' needs in internal meetings. Develop key customer personas and get the organization to embrace them
• Be product strategist. Master the competition, industry trends, product financials and product's marketing strategy. Provide quarterly product reviews.
• Organize & chair customer councils on a regular basis. Provide constant flow of communication to and from advisory members.

Strategic Planning:
• Build the business case for new initiatives. Perform financial modeling, NPV estimation, product development costing; market sizing, market needs assessment and validation.
• Work with Marketing to set product pricing.
• Set strategic direction for partnership opportunities for your product. Work with business development on partner opportunities.

Product Planning:
• Drive development. Author product roadmap, MRD's, PRD's, and drive engineering requirements.
• Embrace user-centered product design in all product releases.

Product Promotion:
• Marketing communications strategist. Provide foundational elements for effective marketing communications: product positioning, product description, product benefits, key messages, top features.
• Product Launch: Develop and guide a company-wide go-to-market plan, work with all departments to execute.
• Work with marketing manager to develop and promote lead generation programs including tradeshows, advertising, email marketing, webinars, and any other clever means of increasing awareness and generating leads.

Sales Tools & Support:
• Be the internal product evangelist. Act as the focal point and become the recognized expert for all assigned products and related issues. Act as the main communication funnel between sales, customers, support and development.
• Ensure the Web site always reflects the correct information on your assigned products.
• Work with Marketing Communications team on creation of product collateral (data sheets, whitepapers, demos, call scripts, etc.)

Qualifications, Education and Experience:

Required:

Product Management and Business skills:
• Product management
• Business strategy
• New product development
• Market research

Excellent Communication skills:
• Visual - able to reduce complex ideas into simple diagrams
• Written - strong writing skills
• Verbal - persuasive, eloquent speaker

Strong Work ethic:
• Reliable (time keeping, delivers when promised)
• Attention to detail
• Willingness to put in extra time to get the job done
• Strong Initiative

Critical Thinking Skills:
• Product Creativity (proclivity to think up new features)
• Business Creativity (proclivity to think out of the box, question existing business practices)
• Logical

Leadership Skills:
• Instills Confidence
• Persuasive Evangelist
• Good Salesmanship

Professional Maturity:
• Presents solutions not problems
• Ability to independently problem solve
• Organized

Technical Skills:
• Knowledge of software engineering
• Knowledge of latest technology trends

Personality traits:
• Passion for excellence
• Self-starter with strong achievement orientation
• High energy
• Fun
• Strong customer focus (actual customers & internal customers)
• Team player

Desired:

Domain Expertise:
• Experience with information access control
• Experience with information commerce

Business skills:
• Financial modeling
• Marketing communications
• Collateral creation

Education / Experience:
• Ideal candidate would have information commerce and B2B software experience

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If you're interested in this opportunity, please send a current résumé to:

Margot Finley-Aguilera
President
Avondale Search International
margot@avondalesearch.com

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