Product Manager (Remote)

About The Role:

The role will have the responsibility for spearheading one of Kepler’s services, its vision, the product strategy and roadmap. You will work closely with a product owner and a project manager to prioritize features based on customer insight and market intelligence. You will work closely with the sales and marketing teams to position the service and build a compelling story that clearly articulates the products’ value prop. Anticipate having to navigate pre-product-market-fit territory.

Responsibilities:

• Understand and represent user needs for one of the Kepler services.
• Monitoring the market and develop a deep understanding of the competitive landscape.
• Define the vision and product strategy.
• Align all internal stakeholders with the vision for the product i.e., what’s the problem we’re solving, why are we solving it, who are we solving it for.
• Work together with the product owner and project manager to prioritize feature backlog, organize sprint planning sessions, and participate in daily scrums.
• Own and maintain a product agile brief that can be referenced by anyone in the organization.
• Become the voice of the customer within Kepler and encourage a customer first mentality.
• Collaborate with the sales team to gain insights on customer dialogues, their pain points, challenges in conversation.
• Engage with customers (internal and external) and partners to deliver roadmap updates, get product feedback, and identify additional challenges and opportunities.
• Collaborate with marketing team to correctly position the services.
• Help build product processes within Kepler to enable product-led development.
• Maintain an up-to-date roadmap.

Candidate Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree, or equivalent, in engineering or technical field.
• 5+ years of combined Product Management, Engineering, or other relevant areas.
• Experience seeing a company bring a product to market for the first time.
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment where decisions must sometimes be made without an abundance of data and information.
• Strong analytical skills coupled with genuine curiosity, and a data-driven mindset.
• Experience working with a cross-functional product team (e.g., hardware, software, infrastructure etc.).
• Ability to ruthlessly prioritize product features based on data or feedback from internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience with B2B products and services.
• Superb verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong creativity and conceptual skills.
• Demonstrates excellent influencing/negotiation skill.