Senior Product Manager - Geospatial

We are a well-established company, specializing in developing world-leading game-based military simulations for major NATO powers and their allies. Our mission is to advance the entire industry by leveraging the latest technologies and trends, including whole-world simulation, virtual reality, motion tracking, and AI.

We are looking for a Senoir Product Manager. 

As a Senior Product Manager reporting to the VP Products Innovation, you will be an essential part of the product management team responsible for defining and executing the company's product strategy. You will work to alleviate market and end users' problems with the products you are responsible for. Specifically, you will be responsible for product management for Mantle, a new enterprise-grade adaptive terrain management product with significant potential in military simulation, geospatial, and adjacent markets. As a product manager, you will be the business owner of Mantle, responsible for ensuring that the product vision and roadmap align with the overall innovation strategy and revenue generation targets for your product line. You will work closely and hands-on with the relevant engineering team lead to ensure that features are developed following the product vision and roadmap. Your work will include interacting with customers, delivering the product and feature business plan, being a product expert, building team relationships, and influencing the product's development priorities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Product Definition:
  • Collaborate with the Office of the CPO and other stakeholders to understand the product strategy and goals.
  • Work with Marketing to develop messaging to create demand for Mantle in military simulation, geospatial, and adjacent markets.
  • Define and prioritize product features and requirements based on market research, customer feedback, and business objectives.
  • Develop a business plan for the product and its features.
• Product Hands-on:
  • Ensure that nobody within the organization knows your product better than you. 
  • You must be able to articulate the market value of your product and, as needed, dive deep into any single technical feature.
  • Be able to independently demonstrate your product to highlight its value to the end users. 
• Roadmap Planning:
  • Own the product roadmaps, ensuring alignment with the company's strategic vision.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration:
  • Work embedded within the Mantle product team to facilitate product development across its life-cycle.
  • Communicate product requirements, user stories, and design specifications effectively to the development team regularly.
• Customer-Centric Approach:
  • Gather and analyze end-user feedback, market data, and competitive insights to inform product decisions.
  • Ensure that the engineering organization follows a user-centric approach, delivering products that provide value as experienced by the end-user customer.
• Feature Prioritization:
  • Prioritize product roadmaps based on their impact on business goals, user needs, and technical feasibility.
  • Make data-driven decisions and adjust priorities as needed during the development cycle.
• Product Launch and Promotion:
  • Collaborate with the marketing and sales teams to plan and execute successful product launches.
  • Develop go-to-market strategies and campaigns, product messaging, and sales enablement materials.
  • Support internal launch readiness for product releases working with sales, technical support, solution engineering, and training.
• Performance Monitoring:
  • Define key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to measure product success and the health of product offerings and associated services.
  • Continuously monitor and analyze product performance, making adjustments and improvements as necessary.
  • Track against the business plan and ensure that investments in the features are delivering the expected value.
• Stakeholder Communication:
  • Provide regular updates on the product development progress to the CPO and other relevant stakeholders.
  • Ensure alignment with the overall product strategy and goals.

Requirements:

• Proven experience as a Product Manager in the geospatial and/or military simulation markets, in a technology or software-focused company.
• Demonstrate understanding of current methods and emerging technologies in the geospatial and/or military simulation markets
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams.
• Familiarity with agile development methodologies.
• Flexibility for travel to participate in strategic meetings, events, customer site visits and/or trade shows.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.

Preferred Skills:

• Pragmatic Institute trained - PMC-I and above

• MBA from a reputed recognized university or equivalent.
• Experience in the use of geospatial products for military simulation.
• Knowledge of product management tools and software.
• Certification in product management (e.g., Certified Scrum Product Owner).
• US DoD secret or NATO secret or top secret clearance