Lead product vision and roadmap for B2B web applications. Champion customers, define requirements and user stories, collaborate with engineering/design/marketing, use data and analytics to set KPIs, drive delivery via Agile and CI/CD, and improve product development processes.
Business Wire, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is the global market leader in press release distribution and regulatory disclosure. We are on a mission to redefine how organizations connect with their audiences - and that’s just the beginning!
Organizations, large and small, depend on us to accurately publicize market-moving news and multimedia, and generate social engagements that develop interactions with their target audiences.
About the Role
The Technical Product Manager is an entrepreneurial leader and a devoted customer advocate who is obsessed with solving problems and improving the customer experience. This role makes a direct impact and helps shape how organizations and media influencers connect with their audiences.
What You Will Do
- Champion our customers, identify customer pain points and new product opportunities, make decisions on product features and functionality, solve challenging problems, influence design and architecture, and turn ideas into customer delight.
- Develop product enhancement requirements, from conceptualization through user story development and user acceptance testing.
- Own and drive the product vision utilizing experience to solve problems and improve the customer experience based on customer needs and goals.
- Bring people together and collaborate across the organization with design, engineering, marketing, sales, and customer support teams to drive clarity and alignment, build consensus, make decisions, help define, prioritize and push forward the product roadmap.
- Dive into analytics and available data to define successful KPIs, monitor progress, identify opportunities and unveil trends
- Research competitive products and industry trends.
- Improve processes; we are constantly learning and improving, and making our product development process more effective.
What You Will Need
- 5+ years as a Technical Product Manager including significant experience in developing user stories and the product roadmap.
- 3+ years of prior hands-on software engineering experience.
- BA/BS degree and comparable experience.
- Background having conceptualized, built and delivered successful B2B web application solutions.
- Excellent communication skills and experience working with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
- Demonstrated data-driven approach to strategic and tactical decisions.
- Technical proficiency and effectiveness working closely with engineers.
- Experience with Agile software development and continuous integration and continuous delivery.
- Experience shipping high-quality products in fast-paced environments.
- Prior work experience in public/investor relations, newswire, media intelligence, or marketing communications industries is a plus.
- Ability to work remotely
- Excellent health benefits that begin on your first day of employment
- $100 monthly fitness allotment, a tuition reimbursement program, and enhanced mental health resources
- 401(k) plan with generous company match, and annual profit sharing contribution (subject to company performance)
- PTO, Floating Holidays, Wellness Day Off, Birthday Day Off, and more!
Business Wire will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
What We Offer
The base salary range for this position is $165K to $180K/year. Offered salary will be determined by several factors, including but not limited to: applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with geographic market data. Business Wire reserves the right to modify this salary range at any time.
Business Wire’s total rewards include:
A pre-employment background check will be required after the acceptance of an offer. Business Wire is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and other similar state laws and local ordinances, and its internal policy, Business Wire will also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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