Skookum Digital Works is growing like gangbusters. We’re working on really interesting interactive projects that transcend bounds between mobile apps, software applications, websites, or social media initiatives. We rarely do anything twice, we expect you to tinker; we expect you to be the best.
You’re not here to fill a vacant cog in our wheel; you’ll be here to amend and improve the skills of our collective team. In short, this job doesn’t exist without you.
Our office is in a rad Uptown spot in Charlotte. Our perks are generous (three weeks vacation, health, eye, and dentist), and we like to kick it together on the reg (monthly outings, catered Friday lunches).
A cross discipline mindset is a must.
Product Manager Job Description
As Product Manager, you will work with our clients to guide them towards defining and documenting their vision to enable the creation of a Product Requirements Document and Software Requirements Document for the software engineering/development team to subsequently perform design, development, and testing activities.
You will also be responsible for creating User Acceptance Test (UAT) procedures, facilitating UAT sessions with end-users, and ensuring that the product meets the specifications and is deployed successfully. This may extend from increasing the profitability of existing products to developing new products for our client companies. You will build products from existing ideas, and help to develop new ideas based on your industry experience and your contact with customers and prospects. You must possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy; a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality. You must enjoy spending time in the market to understand client problems, and find innovative solutions for the broader market.
You must be able to communicate with all areas of the company. You will work with a technical counterpart to define product release requirements. You will work with client marketing communications to define the go-to-market strategy, helping them understand the product positioning, key benefits, and target customer. You will also serve as the internal and external evangelist for the product offering, occasionally working with the sales channel of key customers.
At Skookum Digital Works, we firmly believe, that as software product managers, we are faced with the hundreds of things we could do and what others may want to do. But what will allow us to succeed is not by building something that does a half-assed job for everyone (read: “flexibility”) but by focusing on building something that does a kick ass job doing a few things very well.
Focus is about saying NO.
Can you help whittle down the client’s wants into needs?
Responsibilities
- Leading the design and timely implementation of technical projects
- Enforce best software engineering processes and practices
- Leading a sharp and aggressive team in developing web and/or mobile applications
- Possibly evaluate and recommend third-party solutions for assigned projects
- Define the features of the product, decide on release date and content
- Aggregate input from users, stakeholders and other interested parties to form a single view of the prioritized requirements for the system
- Be responsible for the profitability of the product (ROI)
- Prioritize features according to market value
- Ability to responsibly change features and priority through the agile process
- Accept or reject work results
- Ensure products are launched according to published schedules
- Keep business owners up to date on project status and potential issues
- Resolve project, design, or resource issues before they cause schedule delays
- Manage the entire product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities
- Specifying market requirements for current and future products by conducting market research supported by on-going visits to customers and non-customers
- Assist clients in performing market analyses and assess customer needs to identify new software products and new features for existing products
Qualifications
- 3+ years as a product manager for a software company
- Highly analytical, logical, and good problem solver
- Able to plan work, organize time, and maintain workflow
- Experience writing functional requirement documents
- Experience working closely with Development and QA teams
- Ability to manage multiple projects at a time
- Willingness and ability to communicate with customers
- Highly analytical, logical, and good problem solver
- 3+ years as a product manager for a software company
- Expert in AGILE/SCRUM methodologies
- Understanding of development process: development, testing, and deployment as well as work breakdown, dependencies, responsibilities
- Understanding and experience in user interface best practices
- Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and follow-through
- Excellent communication skills – verbal and written – with the ability to communicate technical information in a non-technical manner
This position requires minimal travel to customer sites in the US (<10%).
Apply for this position
Send a resume to jobs@skookum.com
