Job title: Technical Product Manager – Systems and Tools (remote, Canada)
Company: Acumatica
Job description: Acumatica is a company on a mission. We are a leading innovator in cloud ERP with customers located around the world. But don’t take our word for it—read what analysts like G2 and Info-Tech have to say about us.
Acumatica is a leading provider of cloud business management software that empowers small and mid-size businesses to unlock their potential and drive growth. Built on the world’s best cloud and mobile technology and a unique customer-centric licensing model, Acumatica delivers a suite of fully integrated business management applications, such as Financials, Distribution, CRM, and Project Accounting, on a robust and flexible platform. In an interconnected world, Acumatica enables customers to take full control of their businesses, play to their organizations’ unique strengths, and support their clients by following them anywhere on any device.
Acumatica’s culture is casual and high-energy. We are passionate about our product and our mission, and we are loyal to each other and our company. We value work/life balance, efficiency, simplicity, freakishly friendly customer service, and making a difference in the world. Acumatica offers exceptional professional and financial growth potential.
About the position:
Acumatica is looking for a Technical Product Manager – Systems and Tools with a strong background in reporting, data visualization, and experience with business management software. The right person will help manage the Acumatica platform tools that help customers retrieve and visualize data, manage documents, search within the application, and communications.
Platform tools are used by people with different skill sets across all Acumatica customers and partners. The System and Tools TPM must be able to understand the needs of both non-technical and technical users and prioritize solutions which maximize customer value.
The System and Tools Technical Product Manager will help manage the product roadmap and gather feedback by working with Acumatica customers, support, sales, developers, and external ISVs. After speaking with stakeholders, the Product Manager will prepare requirements documents to inform developers of changes.
What the job entails:
Product Planning
- Manage the product roadmap from planning to tactical activities.
- Speak with customers and partners as well as internal teams to understand how our tools are used to meet real-world scenarios.
- Create, maintain, and present external product roadmaps.
- Document benefits of planned features and ensure senior management is presented with the information necessary to make informed decisions.
Market Analysis
- Perform market analysis including research, technology assessment, competitive landscape and analysis, and market problems identification.
- Visit existing Customers and Partners to gather requirements and gain market knowledge.
- Gain knowledge by managing focus groups, community engagement, user groups, and advisory boards.
- Document and present market requirements.
Product Launch Readiness
- Execute new product release activities and coordination across the entire organization.
- Review functional design documents and work with the development team with its associated project development plan/schedule.
- Document new features and communicate the benefits to partners and customers through videos, data sheets, presentations, battle cards, and more.
- Identify early adopters and manage the beta release process.
- Review documentation and training materials and provide feedback and guidance to Education teams.
- Review output of the Quality Assurance group to ensure the needs of customers, prospects, partners, and markets are built and delivered to a high level of satisfaction.
- Train internal support and services teams on new product capabilities.
Program Management
- Prepare and monitor quality metrics and drive improvements as needed.
- Document and present conceptual ideas and design rationale.
- Ensure sales and partners are conducting proper discovery and analysis of customer projects to mitigate risk and achieve successful deployments.
Customer Success and Support
- Become the reporting, document management, data visualization, search, and other tools subject matter expert.
- Resolve escalations from the support, customer success, and implementation teams.
- Work with support to identify knowledgebase topics and assist with writing articles.
You are a great fit for this position if:
- You have business management software experience.
- You understand reporting, data visualization, search, and document management tools.
- You have 5+ years of product management, development, and delivery experience with SaaS business applications.
- You enjoy spending time in the market to understand how customers retrieve data from Acumatica and apply that knowledge to build innovative solutions.
- You have experience working with cross discipline, geographically dispersed teams.
- You possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy
- You are detail oriented and organized, with strong decision making and time-management skills
- You have large company experience that you would like to apply to a smaller team.
- You know how to build an action plan, lay out goals, strategies, tactics, and timelines.
- You are self-driven and realistic about your goals.
- You have exceptional organizational and communication skills.
Please note: this is a remote (work from home) position that is available to candidates currently located in Canada.
Acumatica is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
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Location: Montreal, QC
Job date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 03:11:15 GMT
