What We Do:

Uptake is a Chicago-based predictive analytics SaaS platform provider that empowers major industry leaders to optimize performance, reduce asset failures and enhance safety. At Uptake, we combine our strengths—machine learning, analytics, data visualization and software development—with the expertise of our industrial partners. The result is enormous savings in development time and resources for Uptake’s partners and a proven industrial grade software platform that delivers value to partners and their end customers.

What You’ll Do:

A Product Manager is the linchpin of product innovation and business growth who strives to lead a matrixed team to deliver product excellence. The Product Manager’s ability to internalize and articulate the needs of customers, married with business savvy and technical competency, are leveraged to build trust, discipline, and passion across the organization. The Product Manager thrives as both an individual contributor and in collaborative settings by defining product vision, evaluating opportunities, and discovering and producing products that deliver customer and business value.

In this role you will:

• Become a company-wide expert in the customers of your product.
• Manage the product backlog, user stories, feature prioritization, and roadmaps.
• Lead individual opportunity discovery processes, including market opportunities, user/customer research and prototyping to identify, evaluate and define products and features that are valuable, usable, and feasible.
• Collaborate directly with architects, developers, data scientists, and other team members throughout product definition and project delivery.
• Drive cross-functional efforts across development, data science, and operations to productize new features 
• Define and maintain product metrics, and use them to measure/report progress and to align product development to business strategy.
• Make and own the hard decisions and trade-offs that emerge during product delivery when things don’t go exactly as planned.
• Align product release planning in harmony with business strategy and other product roadmaps

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computing/Information Systems, Data Science, or related field
• 3+ years of experience as a Product Manager or Product Owner for user-facing web applications
• 3+ years of experience leading product teams in an Agile environment
• Background or experience with data platforms, analytics, and big data technologies such as HDFS a big plus
• Functional understanding of software development tools and modern cloud-based technologies
• Demonstrated organizational and project management skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment