Senior Product Manager - SpectraLink Corporation
Boulder, CO
About the Job
Senior Product Manager
Who We Are
As an award winner in mobile technology, Spectralink has been transforming the way our customers work and communicate for 30 years. Through our determination to do extraordinary things, we enable mobile workforces and empower our customers and partners to explore what’s next, what’s possible. With our enterprise grade, best-in-class mobile solutions, we are with our customers wherever they work, however they need us. Our people, commitment to innovation and our passion are our foundation for success.
Headquartered in Louisville, Colorado with offices in the U.K. and Denmark, we are one global company with a common vision and mission to provide the best possible enterprise mobile experience for our customers.
Want to know the best thing about working for our company? The people. Working at Spectralink means innovation with authority and collaboration among industry experts with uncompromising integrity and agility. Our employees have a chance to make powerful contributions every day. If you have the financial experience, a solid understanding of the balance sheet and cash flow statements, and can communicate effectively across the organization, this is an opportunity to be a part of something great! We want to hear from you if you possess the following skills and qualifications, and are ready to join our team of positive, authentic, dedicated and innovative thinkers.
About the Job
This is an ideal position for an ambitious and smart individual to join one of the world's most innovative companies in the enterprise mobility space.
We staff our product teams with the skills necessary to deliver with effective solutions that are valuable (our customers choose to buy or use), viable (the solution works within the many constraints of the business), and feasible (our engineers have the skills and technology to implement). While the engineers are accountable for ensuring the solution is feasible, the product manager is accountable for ensuring the solution is both valuable and viable. A successful product manager at Spectralink will be able to manage the customer requirements and expectations via engineering team deliverables, and also ensure the business success of their products via driving commercial terms and market positioning and price.
This job, as with the other roles on the product team, is an individual contributor role. You will need to be able to influence your teammates, as well as colleagues, stakeholders, and key executives, through your use of data and logic.
This position requires ownership, a high level of initiative, great attention to detail, ability to learn quickly, ability to drive complex projects to success, proven leadership skills, an ability to work with geographically distributed sales teams, top-notch communication and inter-cultural skills.
Necessary Qualifications
- Demonstrated understanding of the techniques and methods of modern product discovery and product delivery in an enterprise B2B environment.
- 10+ years in a technical product management role
- 5+ years working on IoT or android phone or tablet hardware products and a proven background as a product manager. Additional experience with android mobile solutions is preferred.
- Experience in UI/UX design in software and applications is preferred
- Demonstrated ability to drive with multiple functional areas of business – engineering, design, finance, sales, and marketing.
- Ability to solve hard customer problems with many constraints, using sound judgement to assess risks, and to lay out your argument in a well-structured, data-informed, written narrative.
- Demonstrated excellence in developing go-to-market plans and driving sales enablement
- Proven ability to engage with engineers, marketing, and company leaders in a constructive and collaborative relationship.
- Ability to operate in a fast-paced, agile development environment and manage multiple, concurrent priorities and projects.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Gather customer feedback to understand key issues/needs and trends in customer base.
- Conduct technology trends analysis with Engineering to get a broader sense of the market, competitive, and alternative solutions.
- In conjunction with customer teams, architect implementation solutions that combine Spectralink hardware, software, and 3rd party software to meet project requirements for the customers.
- Support go-to-market needs and feature requirements for OEM channel products
- Take ownership of the product’s market success
- “Own” the product’s user experience requirements and act as the product evangelist.
- Create a vision & strategy that aligns with corporate strategy.
- Thoroughly analyze all buy, build and partner options.
- Maintain the product roadmap that articulates the vision & high-level capabilities.
- Manage the product lifecycle from inception to retirement.
- Maintain pricing strategies, identification and strategies for channel deployment, and cost reductions opportunities.
- Articulate validated market requirements for product enhancements.
- Support product release planning, define, scope, and scheduling.
- Drive Beta success criteria, and support planning and execution including onboarding beta sites.
- Ensure Services are trained and ready to support beta and GA releases.
- Oversee competitive positioning and support sales enablement materials.
- Support Marketing for training of sales channels teams to drive successful customer engagements.
- Support Spectralink and partner sales teams with customers and events.
- Report project status on a regular basis to internal project teams and management.
- Drive quarterly business reviews with the executive team and internal stakeholders.
Education and Experience Required
A BS in engineering, computer science, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience). MBA or MS a plus.
Desired Skills:
- Experience designing and building great user experiences on both the web and mobile devices.
- Excellent communication skills and presence in front of customers and executives.
- Deep technical understanding of one or more of: Wi-Fi Networks, LTE Networks, SIP Protocols, Android.
- Familiarity with building products for Healthcare, Retail, Hospitality or Manufacturing verticals is preferred.
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 25%
- Our preference is for this person to be local to our Colorado office however we will consider remote/hybrid for the right candidate
What We Offer
At Spectralink you’ll have an opportunity to work with an amazing group of people that are passionate and dedicated to what we do. Our unique culture is focused on respect, transparency and collaboration and all employees are heard. When you look us up you’ll find that we have been around for a while and have had an amazing ride; an IPO, an acquisition, now coming full circle with the tremendous opportunity to be back on our own. We are excited about the future. We have an incredibly dedicated and passionate team, experienced executive leadership and a focus to continue to dominate our industry.
All of this history makes us unique, we’re a smaller company (under 200) which means you’ll have a voice in the organization. We offer a 401k match as well as a comprehensive benefits plan.
Join us and be part of our next great chapter!
Salary range: $165,000 - $190,000
Source : SpectraLink Corporation