Product Management Director
Company: Rocket Software, Inc.
Location: Harrisburg
Posted on: August 1, 2022
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Job Description:
**It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in
what they're doing!****Job Description Summary:**The Director,
Product Management is responsible for spearheading the development
and lifecycle of products and solutions in support of our customer
needs and business objectives. The Product Management Director
collaborates with stakeholders across a variety of functions such
as Marketing and IT to understand key business and customer
objectives, understand technology solutions and dependencies,
define best-in-class user experiences, and analyze data to inform
product roadmaps. Develops action plans and strategic direction for
functional areas and maintains alignment with product managers to
ensure the successful development of the entire product line.The
Product Management Director ensures that the product and marketing
efforts support the overall business strategy and goals. This
individual is also responsible for education, championing, and
implementation of Product Management best practices throughout the
organization.Rocket Software is currently seeking a Product Manager
to define and lead strategic business, technical, and process
initiatives for our Z Systems product portfolio. Systems products
consist of traditional and distributed enterprise data center
infrastructure products. Knowledge of IBM mainframe products is
essential.**Essential Duties and Responsibilities** :+ Define and
lead strategic initiatives that ensure Rocket Software products and
solutions are competitive in their respective markets, accelerate
time-to-joy, and aligned to how our customers and partners want to
license and use.+ Drive the development and lifecycle of products
and solutions in support of our customer needs and business
objectives. This role will collaborate with stakeholders across a
variety of functions such as Marketing and IT to understand key
business and customer objectives, understand technology solutions
and dependencies, define best-in-class user experiences, and
analyze data to inform product roadmaps.+ Define and communicate
the product vision in support of the consumer strategy, including
maintaining a clear product roadmap aligned to delighting customers
and driving aggressive growth (both from a customer and revenue
perspective) in the short- and long-term.+ Advanced Strategic
Thinking - able to independently design/identify the ideal approach
to answering business questions by pulling from available
internal/external resources; anticipates the next question(s) from
intended audience.+ Provide leadership and be the expert on the
competitive landscape, driving processes to identify current and
potential competitors, research competitive products, and maintain
competitive information.+ Represent the customer: build strong
customer relationships, develop deep insights on evolving customer
requirements, be the champion and voice of the customer, bring the
customer's voice into the product development process.+ Be an
expert on the domain, the market, and the trends.+ Evangelize our
vision constantly so all stakeholders are aligned, have context and
understand where we are going.+ Manage the roadmap: make
prioritization decisions to adjust based on engineering tradeoffs
and customer feedback, own development of business cases to support
proposed investment priorities.+ Partner with Business Development
to identify key partnerships to help drive awareness and
differentiating offerings in the marketplace.+ Guiding
cross-functional teams of product managers, engineers, designers,
and analysts while playing a key role in organizing and
communicating their work across the organization.+ Work with third
parties to assess partnerships and licensing
opportunities.**Required Qualifications:**+ Minimum 10 years of
management that is directly related work experience.+
Cross-functional collaboration and project management - able to
collaborate with various functional partners to source data, define
business objectives, probe/ask questions, drive alignment.+ Ability
to ensure the confidentiality of sensitive information and thrive
in a fast-paced, intellectually demanding and service-oriented
environment.+ Expertise in managing time and schedules to meet
aggressive deadlines and influence through persuasive written and
verbal communication.+ Possess a unique blend of business and
technical savvy that includes a big-picture vision and the drive to
make that vision a reality.+ Demonstrated success defining and
launching excellent products.+ Track record of using qualitative
and quantitative data to prioritize and drive decision-making.+
Experience with end-to-end product delivery.+ Experience working in
an Agile development environment.+ Effective presentations to
customers.+ Outstanding attention to detail and organizational
skills.+ Proven ability to influence cross-functional
teams.\#LI-EA1\#LI-Remote**Information Security:**Information
security is everyone's responsibility. A fundamental principle of
information security at Rocket Software is that all individuals in
the organization have a responsibility for the security and
protection of company information and IT Resources over which they
have control, according to their role.**Diversity, Inclusion &
Equity:**At Rocket we are committed to an inclusive workplace
environment, where every Rocketeer can thrive by bringing their
full selves to work. Being a Rocketeer means you are part of our
movement to continually drive inclusivity, diversity and equity in
our workforceRocket Software Inc. is committed to creating a
diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity
employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for
employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender
identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin,
genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Rocket Software Inc.
is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices
regarding citizenship and immigration status.Rocket is committed to
working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals
with physical and mental disabilities. If you need special
assistance or an accommodation while seeking employment, please
call: 781-577-4321 or send an email to people@rocketsoftware.com.
We will make a determination on your request for reasonable
accommodation on a case-by-case basis.\#LI-Remote_If you like wild
growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll
enjoy your career with us!_
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