Senior Product Manager

Location: Austin, TX

ALI is now seeking a Product Manager to join our outstanding team who will own the market driven product management process for our ActionOptimizer product line.  The Product Manager is a key, strategic position responsible for championing their respective products and expanding each product’s market presence. The individual must be comfortable working closely with development, QA, support, sales and marketing teams.  This is largely an inbound product management role – though the strategic decisions made in this role have immediate impact on customer’s experience with our solutions.

The ideal candidate would have the following:

  • Understands and quantifies the market for their Products via market research, market analysis and customer/prospect feedback
  • Develops requirements and associated documents for each release of the Product
  • Develops and maintains the Product Roadmap, recommending feature set vs. cost and timing tradeoffs while ensuring it is consistent with Austin Logistics’ business and product strategies
  • Synthesizes competitive analysis and ensures that their Product Roadmaps takes competitive pressures into account
  • Works with Development to assess adjacent and complementary technologies that are appropriate for inclusion in their Products
  • Acts as a thought leader for their Products and represents their vision and roadmaps in public forums such as conferences, standards bodies, industry analyst meetings, etc.
  • Own their Product's positioning and messaging for all appropriate buyer personas
  • Create the requisite sales enablement tools and support materials
  • Manages the Beta test and launch/market readiness activities for new software products and version releases

Qualifications:

  • A minimum of 7 years of product management experience for enterprise software solutions
  • Deep domain expertise in providing software tools or commercial solutions for the Financial Services and Telecommunications industries
  • Experience with analytic (predictive, optimization, stimulation) capabilities a plus
  • A good working understanding of underlying enterprise software technology concepts, including: java / object technologies, relational databases, relational database design, application integration, service oriented architecture, application architecture, configuration and extensibility, modularity, performance, scalability, requirements gathering, etc.
  • Manage product performance (e.g., win/loss analysis) and operational metrics dashboards
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
  • A bachelor's degree in technology or business from a major university;  MBA a plus

Skills and Abilities:

  • Ability to clearly define and communicate the vision, goals, and value proposition of the product from the customer perspective
  • Ability to understand customer requirements and to map customer requirements into product features
  • Ability to evaluate cost/quality/time-to-market trade-offs and to make appropriate trade-off decisions under uncertainty
  • Ability to effectively communicate with, tactfully collaborate with, and forcefully convince people in diverse functional areas
  • Ability to analyze data and trends to produce effective plans and accurate forecasts
  • Ability to deal with a fast changing environment, juggle competing demands on time and to prioritize activities
  • Personal skills: product passion, intellectual curiosity, communication skills, listening skills, negotiation skills, analytical skills, selling skill