Software Product Manager Jobs

About e-Emphasys

e-Emphasys Technologies Inc. is a global provider of enterprise software for the heavy equipment and industrial machinery industry. We help dealerships and rental companies across agriculture, construction, forestry, heavy trucking, materials handling, mining and sanitation optimize their business operations. As a leader in our space, we’re committed to delivering continuous innovation and value to our clients.

Why work for e-Emphasys?

We don’t just sell technology, we enable transformation that results in broader societal benefits like building homes and critical infrastructure, growing food and delivering all sorts of products we all rely on for daily life. We exist to ultimately equip the world to keep running.

It’s an exciting time to work for e-Emphasys. We have recently merged with CDK Global's Heavy Equipment division. With this, we now have more than 60 years of combined experience and two industry-leading software suites and associated apps, with which we will drive the market forward.

This role is hybrid and will require the employee to come into the London, ON office at least four times a year for two days each visit.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage the entire product life cycle, from planning through development, launch, and retirement phases. Create, maintain and communicate the corresponding Product Roadmaps.
• Collaborate with other Product Managers to ensure the product remains aligned with overall product strategy & deliverables.
• Work with product marketing to develop product’s value proposition, features/benefits.
• Guide the product and sprint backlogs for your sprint teams. Develop & prioritize the features (Epics) & user stories based on user/market requirements, strategy & business plan. Support business case development.
• Monitor & adapt to key product success metrics (e.g. adoption, profitability, NPS, market share growth).
• Develop and implement a go-to-market plan, working with all departments to execute. Evangelize the product to all internal & external stakeholders.
• Identify market opportunities and determine the corresponding business gaps available by addressing those needs. Create a compelling product Vision and Value Proposition for the customer. Develop the Business Case which details how E-Emphasys will profitably serve the market need and which results in securing the required development funding.
• Invest in gaining expertise of the market, user personas, functional & domain knowledge.

Skills & Experience

• Participation in product management & agile team meetings and activities.
• Agile experience and sprint execution.
• Develop, negotiate, deliver and measure the product release priorities.
• Experienced with Agile methodologies such as Scaled Agile Framework and exposure to a broad set of programming tools.
• Experience with ensuring product solutions are being built based on solid principles and developed in a manner which takes advantage of state-of-the-art technologies.
• Ability to analyze business and financial trends relative to product features and market trends.
• Demonstrated ability to exert influence and make & meet commitments in a highly-matrixed organization.
• Proven methodology soliciting cross functional feedback to mature product offering.
• Excellent written communication skills to audiences needing to understand vision, strategy and execution.
• Experience with collaborative product development between India and the US.
• Manage expectations with senior leadership providing status, action plans, and recommendations.
• Track record of negotiating complex business environments (i.e. aligning roadmaps with multiple decision-makers in a large corporation) and then working with agile teams to deliver on-time, consistently.
• Ability to develop and present original content demonstrating product and feature value propositions at all levels of the organization.

Qualifications

• Strong track record of product execution in dynamic environment.
• Experience in Agile software/DevOps methodologies & working with globally distributed teams.
• 3-5+ years of Product Owner or Product Management and/or equivalent experience in Enterprise SaaS, full lifecycle management.
• Travel up to 25% of time.
• Participated in business case creation & aligning requirements to business outcomes.
• Strong written & verbal communication skills. Ability to facilitate customer communications.
• Ability to listen & consider the points of view of others, collaborate & build consensus within cross-functional areas.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business, Engineering, or equivalent industry experience
• Deep knowledge in creating Features (Epics) & user stories, driving end-to-end execution of product releases.

The preferred candidate will also possess:

• Direct experience with the Pragmatic Marketing Framework
• An MBA or equivalent graduate degree.

Salary Pay - 95k base (CAD) + 7% AIP bonus