Progress

Director, Product Management

Progress

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • Massachusetts

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Salary

💰 $189,125 - $233,625 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

Cloud

About the role

  • Product Strategy: Define and drive the OpenEdge product strategy considering all commercial and technical aspects to balance retention and growth, including gathering and analyzing financial data, pricing and packaging, and market trends to prioritize direction
  • Market Analysis: Stay current with technology trends, gather data and prioritize strategic goals to keep OpenEdge up to date and ahead with technological advancements
  • Voice of Customer: Champion customer needs, translate feedback into actionable product strategies, identify new requirements, build customer and ISV partnerships, articulate use cases and business value, and prioritize existing and new capabilities to develop a comprehensive multiyear roadmap
  • People Management: Coach, build and grow a team of experienced product managers and align their work with organization goals. Articulate the product strategy and vision to customers, partners, industry analysts, and the press
  • Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate with various departments, including engineering, marketing, IT, sales, and customer and professional service, to ensure alignment and successful execution of the product strategy. Develop and evangelize the product vision internally and externally, building cross-functional alignment around strategy
  • Product Positioning: Articulate the product strategy and vision to customers, partners, industry analysts, and the press. Represent OpenEdge and Progress at key industry and community events
  • Portfolio Management: Identify new product revenue opportunities and define cross-sell opportunities in collaboration with other product managers in the Application and Data Platform Business Unit and with other Progress Business Units. Define and monitor KPIs to evaluate product performance and team effectiveness
  • AI: Focus on Artificial Intelligence as it relates to software development, with an emphasis on Generative AI to improve developer productivity and provide GenAI capabilities in OpenEdge business applications
  • Engineering Partnership: Work closely with Engineering on product requirements, use cases and agile practices to ensure the right features are being developed at the right time at the right pace

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in Application Development technology product management of a $100M+ portfolio
  • 5+ years in people management
  • Experience with Agile development
  • Understanding of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology a plus
  • A degree in Computer Science or a related field is a strong plus for working in this highly technical environment
  • MBA is highly preferred