Sr. Product Manager

Company: Accela, Inc.
Location: San Ramon
Posted on: May 12, 2022

Job Description:

Product Management is charged with being the customer's voice within Accela. They drive product strategy and execution, translating customer needs and opportunities into a compelling roadmap and working cross-functionally to deliver impactful solutions. We are defining innovative solutions for Governments to be more productive and better serve their citizens. You will create business cases, product roadmaps, product requirements and collaborate with senior management, engineering, sales, support, marketing and with partners and customers. This position requires proven communication and collaboration skills and a track record of interacting with technical, product, and marketing teams. You must be self-motivated and have strong leadership skills, good business sense, and experience with SaaS software business and development processes. SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage the business and technical requirements, roadmap and development for Accela's platform capabilities, including core technology components and Rest APIs, as well as document management and other key capabilities. -
• Work with scrum team in agile development process, write and prioritize product requirements, both functional and non-functional, and ensure team delivers on desired product outcomes.
• Work with customers, partners and key stakeholders to define business use cases, product roadmap and technical approach for development. Define strategies for pricing and revenue generation for potential new services. Be able to communicate the business value and technical rationale behind your product decisions.
• Evangelize solution within Accela and to partners and customer community to drive usage and revenues.
• Create and track KPIs that define the success of your product.
• Work with product marketing, sales, support and delivery to ensure all teams can effectively sell and implement your product vision. Create feedback loop to gather field input and translate back to product enhancements. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • 8+ years of experience in full life-cycle Product Management, with proven track record of delivering successful enterprise software or SaaS products
  • Previous experience in enterprise software managing platform components and APIs. -
  • Technical expertise in SaaS application architecture and experience integrating with third-party software solutions
  • Experience defining and driving the success of both functional and non-functional product requirements
  • Proven stakeholder management skills working with a cross-functional team to influence and lead across all parts of the organization
  • Proven experience working in a product driven company building a successful solution
  • Previous experience presenting product vision, business results and driving collaborative discussion among large teams, to business stakeholders and executives
  • Experience as a product owner in an agile environment with remote teams
  • Strong organizational and analytical skills with a track record of measuring and reporting key performance indicators including system performance and usage.
  • Superior communication and presentation skills addressing large audiences ABOUT ACCELA -
    For nearly 20 years, Accela has been an industry leader in designing and delivering government software to improve efficiency, increase citizen engagement and enable the development of thriving communities. Today, citizens are savvy to how services should be delivered, and expect a consistently convenient, openly transparent view into their local government. While government agencies struggle to do more with less, our mission has never been more critical. Accela provides a robust, cloud-based platform of government software solutions that accelerate growth, efficiency, and transparency in communities of all sizes. From planning, to building, to service request management and more, Accela's SaaS offerings level the playing field for small and medium governments and enable smaller agencies to leverage larger city technologies. Our open and flexible technology helps agencies address specific needs today, while ensuring they are well prepared for the emerging challenges of the future. OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION -
    Accela believes in developing and nurturing a workplace community where our differences are celebrated, and everyone feels a sense of psychological safety and belonging. Accela is committed to putting resources and attention towards evolving our practices, policies, and philosophies to enable diversity to thrive and to support equity in opportunity for everyone. Accela is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status, or based on disability, gender identity, and sexual orientation.

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