Scottsdale (or remote), AZ, USA
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Reports To: President Phil Myers
Truly Unique Product Manager Job Opportunity
An opportunity to work at the company that defines Product Management for thousands of customers.
A chance to lead an organization that willingly eats its own dog food!
Live the Pragmatic Marketing Framework every day.
Pragmatic Marketing®, pioneer of the market-driven model for managing and marketing technology products and the industry standard for product management training, is offering a unique and exciting opportunity to work with the company that ‘wrote the book’ on product management. Reporting directly to the company President, and working with a team of experts in the field serving more than 3,000 of the top technology companies in the world, this product manager position will provide the opportunity to work with the best-of-the-best to define and deliver the next generation of Pragmatic Marketing’s offerings.
As Product Manager, you will guide current and future product line strategies for the Pragmatic Marketing curriculum of training and services offerings. This includes plans for increasing the productivity and profitability of existing seminars, such as Practical Product Management® and Effective Product Marketing, along with directing teams to develop new offerings for the company. All offerings will be generated and aligned to the Pragmatic Marketing Framework. New offerings will be based on your industry experience and your contact with customers and prospects.
You must possess a unique blend of business and technology industry savvy; a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality. You must enjoy spending time in the market understanding problems, and identifying innovative solutions for the broad and growing technology industry. You must be able to communicate with all areas of the company. You will work with instructors and services team counterparts to define new release requirements. You will work with sales and marketing to define the go-to-market strategy, helping them understand the product positioning, key benefits, and target customer. You will also serve as the internal and external evangelist for your product offering, occasionally working with the sales channel and key customers.
A product manager's key role is strategic, not tactical. The other organizations will support your strategic efforts; you won't be supporting their tactical tasks.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Managing the entire product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities
- Specifying market requirements for current and future offerings by conducting markeresearch, supported by on-going visits to customers and non-customers
- Driving a solution set across the company from market requirements to business planning to development contracts to positioning and launch
- Developing and implementing a company-wide go-to-market plan, working with all departments to execute
- Analyzing potential partner relationships for the product
REQUIREMENTS
- 5+ years of technology marketing/product management experience
- Intimate knowledgeable in the Pragmatic Marketing vision for creating market-driven technology companies, the strategic role of product management and the new rules of marketing
- Published author for online and print industry newsletters; track record as a speaker at industry events
- Business, Marketing and/or Computer Science degree
This job is located in Scottsdale, AZ with relocation assistance considered. We will also consider this position as remote (virtual). Job requires up to 25% travel to customer and non-customer sites in North America and Europe.
CONTACT
Please send your resume to jobs@pragmaticmarketing.com with Product Manager in the Subject line.
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If you're interested in this opportunity, please send a current résumé to:
Phil Myers
President
Pragmatic Marketing
jobs@pragmaticmarketing.com
