Senior Product Manager at Vaco, LLC
Chandler, AZ 85286
About the Job
Position Responsibilities:
- Establish overall vision, strategic priorities, and goals for a product line in alignment with organizational objectives and market trends, Develop and manage long-term strategic roadmap at the product line level.
- Develop comprehensive go-to-market plans, pricing strategies, and implementation plans for product lines to effectively launch and promote solutions in the market.
- Lead cross functional team including business and development stakeholders, ensuring clear communication of product vision and priorities to drive effective cross-functional execution to create, release, and maintain products.
- Conduct market and competitive analysis, analyze industry and market data, gather customer feedback, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to conceptualize new products, prioritize opportunities, and create roadmaps. Build strategic relationships with clients, partners and external stakeholders to collect information about their needs/preferences related to product and related services.
- Develop business cases for product line investments including new features, extensions, and products.
- Lead, collaborate with, and motivate a cross-functional team of designers, educational content experts, editorial and media professionals, technical developers, testers, and others to develop, execute and release in alignment with program and/or product roadmaps.
- Monitor and optimize product financials (including revenue and margins), usage/adoption, to ensure sustainable profitability and growth for the product line
- Leveraging data on performance of in-market products propose enhancements or adjustments in pricing as needed.
- Minimum 8+ years of combined experience in product management, business management, or consulting.
- 5+ years of product experience working in a product-led organization is required
- 2+ years of experience building products for education/academic markets preferred
- An exceptional communicator and collaborator, adept at working across different functions and diverse cultures.
- Proven track record in building compelling value propositions for customers and key strategies for product-related business objectives; ability to research markets, clients, competition and translating needs into viable product solutions; ability to manage roadmaps and budgets; experience in analytical and strategic problem solving with a history of making data-driven decisions.
- Additional training or certifications in areas such as product management, strategic planning, leadership, or project management may enhance the candidate's qualifications.
- Bachelor's degree in related fields, such as Business Administration, Marketing or other areas combined with relevant work experience. MBA is preferred.
Vaco values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.
EEO Notice
Vaco is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.
Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact HR@vaco.com .
Vaco also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal.
By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. You also agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.
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Pay Transparency Notice
Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:
- the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
- licensure and certification requirements;
- office location and other geographic considerations;
- other business and organizational needs.
With that said, as required by local law, Vaco believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.