Senior Product Manager - Communications Center Automation
About the role
The Role
As a Senior Product Manager, you help streamline the workflow of non-emergency and emergency phone calls with related multimedia interactions. Our Community Engagement and 9-1-1 systems power Communication Centers that keep communities safe.
In this role, you set strategic direction, mentor junior PMs, and drive complex feature prioritization across teams. You will own the product's P&L and pricing strategies, working closely with customers, marketing, designers, and engineers to deliver solutions that simplify complex workflows and enhance community safety. This position is both strategic and hands-on — balancing long-term product direction with day-to-day prioritization.
What You Do
Setting Strategy
- Define the product's vision and long-term strategic direction, ensuring alignment with company objectives and customer needs.
- Clearly articulate the business case and customer value for each initiative or feature.
- Lead strategic planning by identifying major areas of investment, building business cases, and securing internal approvals.
- Serve as the recognized subject matter expert on the product, the market, technology trends, and the competitive landscape.
- Use P&L insights to guide roadmap prioritization, ensuring financial targets are considered.
Defining the Roadmap
- Translate product strategy into actionable plans, determining what to build and when to release it.
- Build and maintain both a detailed development roadmap for internal teams and a high-level roadmap for executives and customers.
- Gather input from customers, internal stakeholders, market research, and industry insights.
- Partner with engineering, design, and cross-functional teams to ensure delivery that meets market needs and quality standards.
- Establish pricing strategies, define core product positioning and messaging, and drive go-to-market launch plans.
Evaluating and Prioritizing Features
- Collect, develop, and curate ideas from customers, sales, and internal stakeholders for the backlog.
- Prioritize features by balancing user value, development effort, time to market, and competitive differentiation.
- Track and evaluate product performance including sales, feature adoption, and user satisfaction.
- Run trials, pilots, and MVPs to validate assumptions and refine the product before broader launches.
- Perform ongoing market and competitor research.
Analyzing and Evaluating
- Track and evaluate product market performance including sales, renewals, and win/loss data.