
Sr. Product Manager
- Alpharetta, GA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- An expert on Aptean’s technology and services solutions, including Aptean’s unique value proposition in the market, based on a thorough understanding of the market problems and competition.
- Identifies and manages opportunities for product integration across Aptean’s portfolio throughout the product lifecycle (ideation to launch).
- Provides product expertise both internal functional groups within the company and external
- Provides key content for the development of sales tools and collateral to be distributed to the channels.
- Provide thought leadership in the form or white papers, blogs, webinars
- Gathers, analyse and validates requirements with existing and potential customers and internal key stakeholders and the market
- Develop, maintain and communicate the internal roadmap and external roadmaps
- Writes product requirements and use scenarios, partnering closely with product development and key customers to ensure we are delivering against the business need.
- Prioritize the initial features for development, along with ongoing change requests.
- Define personas for individual products and markets.
- Oversee planning, prioritization and management of the product features and requirements from conceptual stages through product life cycles to optimize revenue and meet operational, financial and corporate objectives
- Collaborate with key stakeholders to prepare release objectives, messaging and
- Internal and external launch
- Track the performance of your products, adoption rates, retention, quality, and other key metrics.
- Understanding of customer needs in the product specific related industry.
- Comprehensive knowledge and ability to analyze the related market, competitors, customers, prospects and other stakeholders.
- Must be able to translate business problems into technical requirements.
- Full understanding the stage-gate process and software development lifecycle.
- Must have working knowledge of the product life cycle phases, including engineering specifications, customer requirements gathering, software design and development, implementation/delivery and maintenance.
- Must possess solid leadership qualities with cross-functional teams.
- Ability to work with limited supervision and be accountable for deliverables.
- Must be able to make sounds and timely decisions.
- Must be able to interface appropriately and present recommendations at all levels (i.e. engineers, management, executives, and customers) and functions.
- Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to credibly present recommendations at senior levels in the organization.
- Must be able to summarize and synthesize product and industry trending data, along with competitive information, to inform our strategy and show our current progress.
- Must be able to track cross-functional team progress to ensure timeline delivery and execution of our roadmap and releases.
- Must be able to anticipate and resolve challenges, including knowing when to ask for help.
- 8+ years of related experience
- Bachelor's degree is required
- Minimum of 5 years of experience with Microsoft Dynamics NAV / Business Central ERP
- Excellent written, presentation and communication skills
- Analytical thinking & problem solving mindset
- Small to Midsize ERP experience to NetSuite, Sage, Acumatica, Product Manager experience, 10+ years of NAV/BC experience