Senior Product Manager

at  Planet DDS

Planet DDS is a dynamic and rapidly growing dental software company, serving over 13,000 practices across the United States with over 118,000 users. The company delivers a complete platform of cloud-based SaaS solutions for dental practices, including Denticon Practice Management, Apteryx Imaging, Cloud 9 Ortho Practice Management, and Legwork Patient Relationship Management. Planet DDS is committed to creating value for its dental practice clients by solving the most urgent challenges facing today’s dental practices.

JOB DESCRIPTION

With overall responsibility for identifying and driving product initiatives from inception through execution. You will collaborate across the organization and therefore must possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy, servant leader disposition, and the motivation to successfully launch products. You will be energized by finding and delivering innovative solutions that solve business problems and create real value for our customers. You will not settle for anything less than best in class product in your industry.

• Own, strategize, and drive adoption of the company imaging product.
• Evangelize company products and roadmaps with customer and internal stakeholders.
• Lead and manage the entire product life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities, providing strategy and vision to the product roadmap, including product pairing and sunsets.
• Validate product/feature and market fit using a strong analytical and metrics-driven approach, utilizing tools such as cost-benefit and ROI.
• Keep up to date on market trends and assesses market competition by comparing the company’s product to competitors’ products.
• Seek out and identify market requirements for current and future products by conducting thorough qualitative and quantitative market research.
• Manage the product roadmap and ensure epics, features, and stories are sized correctly and groomed. Be able to cull requirements effectively to develop MVPs and demonstrate a sound appreciation of iterative development.
• Product launch – own new product and feature launches, working closely with internal teams to produce training, knowledgebase articles, demo scripts, and marketing materials.
• Develop metrics and reporting that not only provides management and sales with insight on the market but most importantly informs good decision making and continuous improvement.
• Document baseline, monitor, and report KPIs to determine product success against stated goals, including success criteria such as new sales, usage / adoption, etc