Product Manager - 3D Cad

Company Description

Vention helps some of the most innovative manufacturing companies automate their production floor in just a few days. Vention's online-first manufacturing automation platform (MAP) enables its clients to design, automate, order, and deploy manufacturing equipment directly from their web browser.

Vention is headquartered in Montreal, Canada, with offices in Berlin and Boston, and is used in over 3,000 factories on 5 continents. In May 2022, with 300 employees (and growing), Vention announced the closing of US$95M in Series C financing, which will be used to grow Vention's go-to-market strategy, expand the company's global distribution footprint, and accelerate the development of its hardware and software platform.

Vention MachineBuilder is the fastest and easiest way to design and order factory equipment. You can create automated equipment, robot cells and tooling in minutes with the only CAD software built exclusively for the factory floor.

As the Product Manager for MachineBuilder, you will interface with clients to capture emerging needs, drive respective software development teams and support sales & marketing for successful product launches. Leveraging your product management expertise, you will be uniquely positioned to guide architectural choices, drive effective prioritization of our effort and own the product roadmap. More specifically, your role will include the following responsibilities

Product management

• Lead preparation for Quarterly Product Review
• Conduct analysis to inform new product specifications and evaluate performance of existing products
• Scope and maintain the product roadmap
• Work closely with the marketing team to provide input for product launch campaigns
• Prepare detailed brief for new software/features, including business logic
• Conduct client interviews to understand feature opportunities/gap
• Conduct benchmarking of competitor's product and pricing
• Develop sales enablement material and train various go-to market teams (Account Executive, Application Engineers, Customer Success, etc.)
• Define pricing for monetized products and forecast revenue potential

Product ownership

• Ensure deadline compliance for each feature/product and measure team performance
• Prepare and host sprint kick-off, ensuring software team support the scope and can successfully define the "how"
• Organize and prioritize ticket backlog
• Conduct business QA on new products/features to ensure the user experience contribute to elevating the Vention platform
• Breakdown product brief for new product/feature in sequenced ticket for efficient execution
• Maintain dev-team happiness by scheduling period of technical debt / bug elimination (or allow some refactoring as part of new feature development)
• Work with software team and HR to ensure teams are properly staffed with expertise required to deliver the annual roadmap

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience as a product manager, product owner or application engineer
• Strong knowledge of CAD softwares
• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, computer science or equivalent
• Understanding of software user interface/user experience best practices
• Highly motivated self starter
• Ability to work in a fast pace environment with quick turnarounds/good time management
• A proven track record of successful product launches
• Excellent communication, leadership and collaboration skills
• Strong project management and risk mitigation mindset, with demonstrated ability to build contingency plan and execute them

Additional Information

Our culture is an uplifting environment for high achievers. The fast-paced, high-performance environment will give you the opportunity to build products, processes and strategies that will have a lasting impact.

When you join Vention, you join a team of professionals with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives. Together, we strive to nurture a supportive and inclusive work environment for all. We push each other to achieve extraordinary results and forge long term relationships as a result of the intensity and passion.

We’re passionate about helping you do your best work. Claim your seat and find out what you can do!