Vice President of Product Management

Company Info

Company Name: 

LinkExperts Inc.

City: 

New York

State: 

New York

Postal Code: 

10000

COMPANY OVERVIEW

LinkExperts is an emerging leader in natural search solutions, whose customers are premier organizations with unexpectedly poor organic search rankings. LinkExperts works to improve their visibility by utilizing its rapidly expanding technology platforms, business procedures, and relationships.

What sets LinkExperts apart from its competition is its scalable technology products, world class account management teams, and a commitment to relevancy, quality and thought leadership. With rapid exponential growth, solid venture-backing and a dynamic work atmosphere, LinkExperts offers an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to make a meaningful contribution to one of New York’s fastest growing companies.

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Vice President of Product Management will be primarily responsible for driving the process for collecting, analyzing and prioritizing the market requirements for the product line, and for disseminating priority product requirements to the product development organization. As the company gains traction in new markets, the Vice President of Product Management, will play a major role, driving the pricing methodology, competitive positioning and functionality roadmap based upon direct customer feedback. He she will also invest appropriate time interacting with analysts, potential partners, customers and other constituent groups to remain current on trends and shifts in the marketplace that impact the product direction, as well as to represent the company in the marketplace as a spokesperson.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Build great products with a team of talented and passionate people looking to make an impact.
* Hire, lead and work with a team of product managers, information architects, visual designers to ensure long-term product leadership.
* Vice-President of Product Management will lead the generation of annual and quarterly product roadmaps and guide product development and own the product roadmap.
* Own the end-to-end development of major product components.
* Take input of customer needs from focus groups, feedback, conversations, and metrics as input along with internal vision and needs to form informed recommendations on product opportunities.
* Be the diplomat who mediates and campaigns for what's best for the business and our customers.
* Collect, analyze and prioritize market requirements for current and future products.
* Work with prospects and customers to ensure a strong outside participation in product planning, while creating a reference base of customers for channels, partners, analysts and investors.
* Partner with the leadership and development teams to establish a clear, consistent and market-based product strategy and roadmap.
* Evangelize the product to industry analysts, channels, alliance partners and customers.
* Work with engineers to drive releases and iterate /features products quickly in a rapid development environment.
* Lead product strategy, roadmap and requirements definition, and marketing initiatives
* Work with the Vice President of Revenue to train internal and external sales and support teams, and customers.
* Work with the Director of Marketing to coordinate the communication of marketing for all products, product development, marketing campaigns.

EXPERIENCE/ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

* Passion about the people who use our products
* Minimum 4 years experience in a product management leadership role for a successful software, digital media or Internet company.
* Proven track record managing a product management team at the VP level.
* Demonstrated success launching digital media related web-based software product(s) in a new category would be ideal.
* Excellent analytic, strategic, conceptual, communication (oral and written), persuasion and presentation skills
* Experience with agile/rapid software development environments
* Significant SEM/SEO experience is preferred; however, a product management background in digital media, eCommerce and other related SaaS businesses would suffice.

CHARACTERISTICS/ PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES:

* Highly energetic, self starter
* Track record of winning and over achieving
* Demonstrated comfort with ambiguity
* Team player, low-ego
* Possesses a “whatever it takes” attitude

APPLY HERE
http://www.linkexperts.com/AboutUs/Careers/VPPM