at Oracle in Springfield, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Job Description
We are looking for an energetic and talented individual to be a pivotal member of the Unifier Product Management team with a focus on delivering Industry Solutions based on Unifier.
The focus of the Product Manager will be to act in a way to not simply deliver “features” but instead understand problems, collaboratively solving problems, and delivering solutions that customers love and use. Like the Senior Manager, you will be measured on key KPIs including not just financial & ROI, but also adoption and satisfaction metrics for solutions. In other words, do customer use the solution and do they like it.
You will drive for consistency, a culture of delivery and customer satisfaction, with 5 key measures:
1. Adoption “Are people using it?”
2. Customer Satisfaction “Do they like it?”
3. Financial “Are they buying it?”
4. ROI “Are we making money?”
5. Employee satisfaction “Are we aligned?”
Key Responsibilities
This is a position that requires a combination of strong engagement and communication skills, pragmatic thinking, tactical execution and the ability to balance an ever challenging mix of priorities and stakeholder views. You will be collaborating with your Senior Manager, Product Strategy, pre-Sales, Product Marketing, and internal teams focused on industry verticals to deliver solutions that grow the business.
Key responsibilities include:
+ Understand the customer and their needs and is their advocate
+ Understand the market, customers and product management strategy and convey these contexts to the team.
+ Work with your manager for the creation, management and prioritisation of a product backlog, and for assessing what is appropriate to release to market
+ Configure, maintain and enhance the industry solutions based on Unifier
+ Communicate with and get buy in from key stakeholders on product strategy, including external (our customers) and internal. Continue to make development, marketing, support and importantly sales and pre-sales feel good about your stream’s offerings and direction.
+ Make decisions based on specific and deep market and metrics analysis.
+ Work with the Senior Manager to measure and report on the success of your solutions, particularly around adoption and satisfaction.
+ Ensure that what we build adds up to meaningful experiences for our customers
+ Plan ahead over 3-5 sprints and monitor progress during sprints. Resolve with stakeholder input any ambiguities and conflicts with other existing or new functionality.
+ Ensure customer facing departments understand the changes we make to our products
+ Gather feedback to improve our solutions
+ Be subject matter experts in our products
+ Proactively contribute to ongoing process improvement and ensure high quality outcomes for our customers
+ Review and contribute to user documentation as a part of our release to market processes
+ Pro-active in helping others through building capability and supporting peers.
The Product Manager will be a flexible, results-oriented, and experienced product management professional. This role combines a great instinct for developing compelling products with a strong focus on users; a technical aptitude to work with a world class development team; and the business sense to drive product goals and strategies.
Commercial
+ Assist the Senior Manager with:
+ Managing the entire product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities.
+ Specify market requirements for current and future products by conducting market research supported by on-going visits to customers and other industry stakeholders
+ Analyze potential partner relationships for the product.
+ Set and deliver commercial targets for the product
General
+ Understand the competitors’ products in terms of positioning, features and benefits, and account acquisition strategies
+ Build an excellent knowledge of the CEGBU’s products, mapping how the new product set interfaces to the existing product set.
Candidate Requirements
Required Skills and Experience
Essential:
+ Unifier experience strongly preferred.
+ 5+ years product management or technical consulting experience required.
+ Some SaaS or network-based business expertise
+ Experience making sophisticated product decisions in a competitive market and getting it right!
+ Must always be thinking about the customer. Must be maniacal about focusing on product issues and initiatives that will create engaged and happy users (which ultimately generate revenue).
+ Have a strong business sense and ability to grasp customer’s needs and expectations.
+ Demonstrated ability to gather user requirements and convert them into a winning product vision.
Desirable:
+ Experience of developing reports using Oracle BI Publisher
+ Experience in Agile/SAFe Development
+ Experience working in a fast-growing business
+ Experience with organizations in the never-ending process of transitioning to Agile development methodologies.
Career Level – IC4
Responsibilities
+ Understand the customer and their needs and is their advocate
+ Understand the market, customers and product management strategy and convey these contexts to the team.
+ Work with your manager for the creation, management and prioritisation of a product backlog, and for assessing what is appropriate to release to market
+ Configure, maintain and enhance the industry solutions based on Unifier
+ Communicate with and get buy in from key stakeholders on product strategy, including external (our customers) and internal. Continue to make development, marketing, support and importantly sales and pre-sales feel good about your stream’s offerings and direction.
+ Make decisions based on specific and deep market and metrics analysis.
+ Work with the Senior Manager to measure and report on the success of your solutions, particularly around adoption and satisfaction.
+ Ensure that what we build adds up to meaningful experiences for our customers
+ Plan ahead over 3-5 sprints and monitor progress during sprints. Resolve with stakeholder input any ambiguities and conflicts with other existing or new functionality.
+ Ensure customer facing departments understand the changes we make to our products
+ Gather feedback to improve our solutions
+ Be subject matter experts in our products
+ Proactively contribute to ongoing process improvement and ensure high quality outcomes for our customers
+ Review and contribute to user documentation as a part of our release to market processes
+ Pro-active in helping others through building capability and supporting peers.
Disclaimer:
Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range: from $87,600 to $199,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.
Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle’s differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.
Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: F
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