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We’re looking for a Lead Product Manager to join the product team buildingTricentis’ cloud platform and SaaS products.Tricentismakes tools that help people make better software through testing. We’re a top choice among professional software tester and allthree of the major analyst firms call us aTest Automation leader.
We are building the testing suite of the future as a SaaS, cloud-delivered product.There’sseveral different types of software testing, different use cases, and unique testing needs of different user personas. We’re bringing all this testing together in one integrated product suite.
What You’ll Do:You’ll have primary responsibility for executing a product for one of the personas or testing methods. You’ll support a product development team consisting of designers, developers, testers, and product managers to drive the product forward. You’ll define strategies that align with our overall product vision. You’ll work with the other product management leads to ensure we’re all building a single cohesive product suite. As the lead product manager, you’ll mentor and guide your team’s product managers.
A product manager here isn’t the decider of what gets done. Instead, you’re the keeper of the product vision, strategy, and customer problems that need solving. You’ll bring context and data about each customer problem that will help the whole product team find the best path toward delivering customer value. You’ll make sure the team grounds their work in the product strategy.
You’ll thinkbig, butexecute small. Instead of working on one big thing, we try lots of smaller “bets” to learn what our customers need. You’ll help define the bets, determine how to measure the outcomes of each experiment, and use those measurements to guide the next set of bets.
You’ll be the primary connector between the product team and the rest of the company. You’ll need to communicate product progress, plans, and changes to other parts of the organization. You’ll work with sales and marketing to define a go-to-market plan for new capabilities. You’ll make sure customer success and professional services each know how to support and use the new things as we build them. You’ll work with otherTricentisproducts to identify integration and collaboration points.
You’ll drive profitability by ensuring the product has sound unit economics. You’ll track our customer acquisition costs, cost of goods, and churn to make sure we’re building a product that can turn a profit.
You’ll be reporting to the head of cloud products. You can learnwhat it’s like to work with him at https://github.com/akalsey/ManagerReadme
This is a role for a product leader that can own a strategy, grow the team’s product management capabilities, and manage all aspects of a complex product. You might have been a product leader elsewhere or be ready to step into that role. You’ll have the support ofTricentis’ other strong product leaders. You view product managers as servants of the product development team instead ofbeing in charge ofthe product.
You should have a strong background in using data to inform your decisions. You have experience with customer research, running product experiments, and techniques like A/B testing. You know how to help a team use these to define and track product and customeroutcomes.
You have deep experience in agile product creation and can coach others in the same. You love iteration and would prefer to ship and adjust 15 times a day instead of spending 15 days getting one thing right. You abhor inventories of planned work.You look to continuously improve the process to deliver customer value faster than you did last time.
You’ve worked on products that don’t use timeline roadmaps. You understand how to communicate non-timeline plans to customers and internal stakeholders.You have experience with shipping an iterative product.
You have experience with shipping a SaaS business to businessproductto large enterprise customers. Ideally you have created products for developers or have been a developer yourself.
You are an excellent communicator in English. You communicate well with highly technical people both inside and outside the company. You are skilled at connecting with and collaborating with other product teams in a larger company.
You have an uncanny ability to get things done. You find ways around, over, or through obstacles. You maintain a focus on the product’s vision and strategy and drive the team toward that direction.
Where you are:This is a remote position, ideally on the east coast of the US or Canada or in eastern time. You’ll be working daily with product managers and developers across the US and Central Europe.
Tricentis is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran.
