ROLE MISSION
The Product Manager’s mission is to lead the development and execution of product vision, strategy, and management for HCIM’s software solutions. This includes market research & analysis (producing competitive landscape, white space opportunities and blue ocean ideas), product vision & strategy development, product roadmap management, requirements definition, prototyping, and UI/UX design for feature enhancements and new products.
A successful candidate in this role will accomplish the following goals in their first two years at HCIM:
- Develop and publish a written product strategy including a quarterly product roadmap for the next 18 months which prioritizes new product development, existing product enhancements, and large architecture investments based on the market opportunity and potential benefit to current and new HCIM customers.
- Establish a standard product release cadence and successfully launch at least one meaningful product feature enhancement within the first 12 months.
- Select a new core administrative system to build SymKey automation for, build the product charter including robust return on investment analysis based on market research, and secure at least one signed letter of intent with an early adopter client within 18 months.
- Additional objective measures will include the expansion of solutions in existing customers and new customer wins
The Product Manager’s responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Co-develops, owns, maintains, and executes a written product vision, strategy, and roadmap including new products, feature enhancements, and other development projects with relevant prioritization based on external research (primary and secondary research leveraging surveys, market participant interviews, 3rd party data analysis, etc.) and internal discussions with cross-functional stakeholders (analytics, design/user experience, engineering, and user enablement) across HCIM.
- Produce business case presentations which identify key assumptions/thesis, quantified value to customers, internal development cost estimates and revenue projections for ROI.
- Works in an Agile environment, leading sprint planning, retrospectives, and backlog refinement.
- Continuously reviews the business needs, refines priorities, outlines milestones and deliverables, and identifies opportunities and risks.
- Turns data insights into products with actionable outcomes to the customer.
- Works with user-focused departments to define the self-service user experience, support, and monitoring for customers.
- Translates product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including features, user stories, and acceptance test criteria.
- Prioritizes and maintains the sprint backlog for assigned products, balancing the requirements of stakeholders.
- Leads the product functional design process based on an intimate knowledge of the users and technology.
- Defines and executes go-to-market plan, working to ensure that product management, marketing, and sales have what they need to be successful. This can include generating marketing collateral, sales decks, sales enablement materials and demos.
- Develops and maintains appropriate tracking and reporting of product performance post-launch to evaluate future investment.
- Work collaboratively with legal to review deliverable sections of contracts and relevant sections of 3rd party license agreements