Product Manager II
Company: St Engineering Idirect
Location: Herndon
Posted on: April 26, 2024
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Job Description:
Overview:ST Engineering iDirect is a global leader in satellite
communications (satcom) providing technology and solutions that
enable its customers to expand their business, differentiate their
services and optimize their satcom networks. Our business provides
innovation focused on solving satellites most critical economic and
technology challenges, and expands a shared commitment to shaping
the future of how the world connects. With your talent and energy
paired with our vision and technical leadership, the most
fulfilling work of your career is waiting for you at ST Engineering
iDirectthe sky is truly the limit!The Product Manager is one half
of a team (with a Product Owner) responsible for defining new
product feature enhancements, planning and directing activities to
ensure the timely development and delivery of reliable and
efficient solutions to business requirements, and developing
acceptance criteria to validate that the resulting product meets
initial requirements. This position is primarily focused on the
market, sales, customer, feature definition and forecasting side of
the product management organization. They define the product to fit
the market need, forecast anticipated revenue, act as the customers
proxy, accept a product from product owners as the final step in
delivery and adjudicate bug queues both to prioritize and to ensure
they are not unsupported features. Great product managers can come
from a variety of background, but they tend more often to be of a
technical background with marketing focused MBAs.The satellite
industry is continuing to evolve with higher throughput satellites
with dynamic payloads in the GEO, MEO, and LEO orbits. This once
relatively insular industry is also undergoing convergence with the
terrestrial telecom space. The new generation of products will be
increasingly standard-based and software and cloud driven. ST
Engineering iDirect continues its market leadership with new
developments in its portfolio of virtualized software systems and
high-performance appliances to drive the industry forward.
Technology focus will include cloud-enabled architecture, platform
security, multi-orbit operations, MEF and 5G standard compliance
and end-to-end service orchestration.Responsibilities:Initiate and
sustain productive relationships with identified customers and
their sales, marketing, product management and solution delivery
organizations.Coordinate with iDirect Sales and Customer Support
organizations to ensure consistent, positive, and knowledgeable
representation of the company and its activities.Responsible for
evaluating and prioritizing backlog of features, enhancements and
bugs fixes based on business, customer, and strategic value.Serve
as customer proxy with internal stakeholders (e.g. Product Owners,
Engineering, Sales), balancing needs of customer with iDirect
business requirements.Management of process for evaluating all new
product/feature/solutions requests.Gather and analyze data required
to develop business requirements required for business case
creation in support of request.Develop and deliver comprehensive
business cases (market need, feature analysis, customer
identification and financial forecasting).Running business case
through comprehensive Decision Tree process.Work with assigned
Product Owners to translate requirements into executable product
use cases, scenarios, and acceptable criteria.Be a subject matter
expert related to products and technical best
practices.Identification and escalation of issues/obstacles to
delivering the product as definedResponsible for delivering a
complete system to the company.Responsible for delivering finished
product (including documentation, adequate testing, appropriate
functional and performance capabilities) as co-defined with Product
Owner.Responsible for the definition and execution of go-to-market
strategy for new products or feature along with sales, product
marketing, supply chain, trade compliance, training, services, and
etc.Responsible for the entire life cycle of a product or software
from the ideation to the end-of-support.Qualifications:Bachelors
Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related majors required,
MBA preferred.10+ years progressive experience as Product Manager
in the security market or STEM related field; satellite,
networking, IT, or telecommunications.Experience with various
security maturity models and standards such as SAMM, BSIMM, NIST,
SOC, FISMA, etc.Demonstrated ability to effectively represent the
company to external audiences.Business acumen; ability to conduct
financial and data analysis, construct and communicate
recommendations in a business context.Technical acumen; ability to
understand key technical aspects of the product.Prior collaboration
with Product Owners to translate market and customer needs into
consumable epics and stories with acceptance criteria for
engineering organization.Ability to lead cross functional teams and
drive projects to successful outcomes.Experience in agile
development methodology highly preferred.Experience managing the
entire lifecycle of hardware solutions.Exceptional written and oral
communication skills.Travel Requirements: 50% or lessby Jobble
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