Technical Product Manager

Business Wire, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is the global market leader in press release distribution and regulatory disclosure. The Technical Product Manager is an entrepreneurial leader and a devoted customer advocate who helps shape how organizations and media influencers connect with their audiences.

Responsibilities:

• Champion our customers, identify customer pain points and new product opportunities, make decisions on product features and functionality, solve challenging problems, influence design and architecture, and turn ideas into customer delight
• Develop product enhancement requirements, from conceptualization through user story development and user acceptance testing
• Own and drive the product vision utilizing experience to solve problems and improve the customer experience based on customer needs and goals
• Bring people together and collaborate across the organization with design, engineering, marketing, sales, and customer support teams to drive clarity and alignment, build consensus, make decisions, help define, prioritize and push forward the product roadmap
• Dive into analytics and available data to define successful KPIs, monitor progress, identify opportunities and unveil trends
• Research competitive products and industry trends
• Improve processes; we are constantly learning and improving, and making our product development process more effective

Requirements:

• 5+ years as a Technical Product Manager including significant experience in developing user stories and the product roadmap
• 3+ years of prior hands-on software engineering experience
• BA/BS degree and comparable experience
• Background having conceptualized, built and delivered successful B2B web application solutions
• Excellent communication skills and experience working with stakeholders at all levels of the organization
• Demonstrated data-driven approach to strategic and tactical decisions
• Technical proficiency and effectiveness working closely with engineers
• Experience with Agile software development and continuous integration and continuous delivery
• Experience shipping high-quality products in fast-paced environments
• Prior work experience in public/investor relations, newswire, media intelligence, or marketing communications industries is a plus