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Softscape is on the cutting edge of advanced people management technology, and we continue to add leading global organizations to our success stories. We are always looking for smart, talented, high-energy individuals who share our vision, and there has never been a more exciting time to be a part of this industry with Softscape as the leading pioneer.

• Softscape is a global leader in web-based human capital management, and one of the highest rated vendors in the industry by analysts.
• Founded in 1995, Softscape is privately held and has been profitable since year one growing consistently year after year.
• Softscape continues to achieve industry recognition from leading analysts as one of the most comprehensive HCM solutions on the market.
• We have balanced consistent growth while maintaining ongoing profitability and a long-lasting world-wide workforce.
• Softscape has established worldwide operations with offices across the US, Europe, and Asia Pacific.
• Softscape offers a challenging opportunity for professional growth with competitive salaries and a full range of benefits.

Product Manager

Job Description:

Product Manager plays a key cross-functional leadership role in defining product and business requirements. The Product Manager is the internal product expert, designs and prioritizes product feature requirements, and establishes the processes for effectively managing the entire product lifecycle from concept, prototype, demo, to engineering, Q&A, and product launch. Specific deliverables include product requirements, competitive assessments and monitoring, market trends, product usability tests, prototype concepts, pricing strategies, release launch plans, and collateral content.

Position Type:

• Full-time, Permanent

Position Location:

• Wayland, MA USA

Responsibilities:

• Proactively researches market needs and competitive landscape to define market opportunities and requirements for new offerings.
• Communicates with customers, prospects, partners, analysts, sales, and consulting to understand and document product requirements, and identifies highest priority areas for future product investment.
• Builds product prototypes and demonstrations to support both engineering and sales efforts.
• Defines technical requirements, creates actionable tech specs for engineering and consulting, establishes product release processes, and plans release schedules.
• Coordinates and maintains pertinent product roadmap and milestone dates, and provides necessary monthly updates to internal personnel.
• Reviews and evaluates development’s deliverables on a continual basis to ensure that requirements are properly addressed.
• Performs product demonstrations to customers, prospects, and partners to support sales initiatives.
• Creates demonstration scripts and provides leadership and training to sales and sales engineering.
• Maintains comprehensive feature list with gap analysis to prioritize future enhancements.
• Creates effective sales tools including value proposition, collateral, detailed features and benefits, etc.
• Develops customer product bulletin content for regular customer communiqué s.
• Maintain close relationship to customers for awareness of customer needs and perspectives and what works, what doesn’t, and what more is needed to further their success.

Qualifications:

• 5-7 years experience in enterprise application software development and/or product management required
• Bachelors degree in business, engineering, sales, or marketing
• Familiarity with database software design principles, and the basic, high-level workings of an internet architecture 
• Ability to operate as a matrix manager in coordinating people and technical resources from multiple areas of the company
• Exceptional communicator and presenter with high energy and confidence.
• Strong technical skills with the inquisitiveness to learn products, work with them, and constantly determine ways to improve them.
• This is a job for a technical ‘tinkerer’ who loves their product.
• A work style that emphasizes a disciplined and organized approach to defining products, prioritizing features and activities, and driving execution.
• Flexibility and self-motivation – with a problem solver’s attitude.
  
• Able to work independently yet collaborate cross-functionally in a team environment
• Superior interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills