Job Description
A Product Manager is responsible for defining the technical and business requirements for one or more products and managing their full product release cycle.
Responsibilities:
• Create product requirement documents and product roadmaps.
• Work with local and offshore teams to drive the design, development, QA and documentation of products and services under strict deadlines.
• Quickly resolve complex product design issues raised by engineering.
• Meet with customers, partners and internal product management, sales, and operations teams to gather requirements and prioritize features and bug fixes.
• Write customer white papers and product release notes.
• Deliver technical presentations to educate customers and internal teams about new product features.
• Meet with customers and partners to help design strategic integrations.
Pros
Work closely with engineering, sales, business development, marketing, etc. Real sense of ownership and responsibility for one or more product/services. Satisfaction of managing all phases of a product from conception, development, to deployment and continous improvement. Very little job boredom or repetition; you are constantly doing different things.
Cons
Lots of responsibility but often no direct reports. You must win friends and influence people in engineering, deployment, marketing, etc. You have to motivate them to do a good job on "your" product. When things go wrong (severe bugs, outages) the Product Manager will often get blamed but he really has limited direct control over this. You get mountains of email every day and are expected to weigh in on hundreds of technical and business issues. It's hard to go on a real vacation since customers, sales, engineering still have needs and it's hard for someone else to step in and manage all phases of your product while you're out.
Company Size
1000-10,000 employees
Pay Range
$100,001-$120,000
Years in Job
3
Education
B.S. Computer Science
City
Santa Clara
State
CA
