Product Manager

Responsibilities:

· Defines the product vision, strategy and roadmap

· Gathers, manages, and prioritizes market and customer requirements

· Acts as the customer advocate articulating their needs

· Works closely with development, sales, marketing, and support to ensure business case and customer satisfaction goals are met

· Has technical product knowledge or specific domain expertise

· Defines what to solve in the market needs document, where you articulate the valuable market problem you’re solving along with priorities and justification for each part of the solution

· Regularly reviews completed work and checks with customers to ensure that it meets the customer expectations

· Is a market expert. Market expertise includes understanding the reasons customers purchase products. This includes an understanding of the competition, and how customers think of and buy your product

· Acts as the product’s leader within the company

· Develops the business case for new products, improvements to existing products, and business ventures

· Develops positioning for the product

· Recommends or contributes information in setting product pricing. This point isn’t true in all industries, especially, for example, insurance; however, an awareness of competitive pricing is part of what companies expect you to provide as part of the pricing decision