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Job Overview
At Relativity, we make software to help users organize data, discover the truth, and act on it. Our e-discovery platform is used by more than 13,000 organizations around the world to manage large volumes of data and quickly identify key issues during litigation, internal investigations, and compliance projects.The Product Management team is looking for a Product Manager to lead the roadmap and success of Relativity’s document conversion and enrichment technology to drive efficiency in litigation review. These areas of the product are responsible for many enrichments in Processing, Imaging, PDF Production/App and drive many document transformations for review.
A successful candidate must be energized by building deep customer empathy, collaborating with design, development, discovering opportunities through data analysis and inquiry with customers, creating and communicating progress through leading indicators, developing strong fluency in cloud architecture and adjacent technologies, and navigating ambiguity given the technology’s pace of change.
Job Description and Requirements
In this role, you will:
Drive short- and long-term roadmap of document conversion and enrichment teams by working closely with both internal and external end users, engineering, enablement, sales teams and other customer-focused teams.
Work with other data enrichment product managers and stakeholders to create cohesive, intuitive enrichment architecture needed to improve user experience of processing and other enrichment consumers in the product.
Collaborate with sales and marketing to increase adoption of document conversion technology and create artifacts that articulate benefits of document conversion and enrichment.
Ensure customers have successful experiences by helping Relativity enablement teams and acting with urgency to address any barriers to adoption.
Role Responsibilities
Customer Centric:
Connect with external and internal customers to gain a deep understanding of their workflows and needs and validate our approach to addressing them.
Ensure we are solving the most pressing problems of our customers. The ability to prioritize tasks based on their impact and outcomes is crucial to be successful in this role.
Speak to internal stakeholders including engineering, user researchers, and designers about the variety of workflows and end user needs we see across segments and personas.
Provide product and workflows recommendations grounded in both customer empathy and customer data.
Communicate our user needs to engineering teams and other internal stakeholders to drive alignment internally on product vision.
Conduct user and competitive research for their product(s)
Product Leadership:
Possess an in-depth understanding of our product suite. Speak about our production from a business and technical approach in a way that internal stakeholders and clients can understand.
Own the product roadmap and backlog for your product(s). Listen to different internal experts to understand the impact, but in the end decide the features that your team should build.
Work directly with Product Leads to help build a strategy and goals for their product(s).
Track and reports on key product metrics that are relevant to your domain and expected outcomes.
Act as a leader, facilitating communication across internal stakeholders and effectively communicate ‘why’ and gain buy-in from the team and Leadership. Be responsible for clarifying and resolving conflicts around your product vision.
Technical Leadership
Work closely with your Engineering counterparts to ensure that the team delivers a product that meets our scalability, reliability, usability, observability, efficiency and performance standards.
Be well versed in technical aspects of cloud platform architecture with deeper technical understanding to communicate with development team members and make informed decisions about the product development.
Possess the technical acumen needed to understand the technical challenges faced by the team, the root cause of incidents and propose effective solutions for them.
Engage in deep technical discussions with Engineering Managers and Technical Architects to understand the implications that future work could have on your product and customers.
Product Implementation
Break down large projects into iterative releases. Create and share product implementation plans with measurable results for each milestone.
Anticipate the need to create alignment with cross-functional teams to solve problems together.
Help the team to translate validated designs and analysis into story cards with acceptance criteria.
Develop external and internal facing go-to-market content including product documentation and release notes.
Preferred qualifications:
Proven experience in product management for developer-facing platform products, preferably spanning native libraries, distributed messaging systems, and workflow orchestration infrastructure.
Solid understanding of software development lifecycle and agile
Familiarity and comfort with data, including ability to use data to analyze and monitor product health, set goals, back up assumptions, and track success.
Excited and curious about highly complex problems, systems, and interactions
A team player with proven ability to validate solutions and deliver features from inception to delivery
You focus on the details, but focus your strategy on the big picture objectives
Excellent communicator and presenter, both written and verbal
Minimum qualifications:
3+ years of experience in product management building custom software
Bachelor's degree in business, Computer Science, Engineering, or Design or comparable work experience.
Relativity is committed to competitive, fair, and equitable compensation practices.
This position is eligible for total compensation which includes a competitive base salary, an annual performance bonus, and long-term incentives.
The expected salary range for this role is between following values:
$115,000 and $173,000The final offered salary will be based on several factors, including but not limited to the candidate's depth of experience, skill set, qualifications, and internal pay equity. Hiring at the top end of the range would not be typical, to allow for future meaningful salary growth in this position.
Required Skills:
Agile Methodology, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Market Research, Market Strategy, Product Lifecycle, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Product Management, Product Strategies, Stakeholder Management, Team LeadershipRelativity Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
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