Senior Product Manager ViPR Data Services

Job Location: Hopkinton, MA

SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER – Management Platform

As a key contributing member of one of EMC's most important software businesses, you'll help us succeed by leveraging your extensive product management skills. Subject matter expertise in storage technologies, management software, and virtualization are key areas required to drive an effective cross functional agenda. You must be an individual with an entrepreneurial spirit, dedicated and ready to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. Responsibilities include providing direction and definition of product requirements, competitive analysis and providing strong leadership to motivate the cross functional teams you will engage. Excellent communication skills, initiative, and business acumen will be required to construct and drive our product line vision and value proposition to internal and external audiences. You will be responsible for the "end to end" business of the product line and be capable of creating "first, best content" that articulates product technical value, vision and roadmap for customers, analysts and internal EMC audiences. This is an opportunity for a motivated, self-starter to take ownership of the core technology platform of a growing business and become an expert in an ever-growing domain while honing their product management skills within a high–energy, dynamic environment. We are looking for a product manager who has the vision and drive to create game changing approaches to EMC’s core software business.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

•Evaluates and drives product management processes (e.g., long term product strategic business and product requirement plans). Ensures the right blend of trade-offs to maximize the product impact in the marketplace (competition, timing, costs, internal capabilities).

•Manages the collection and definition of candidate features and functions across all cross-functional areas resulting in the Product Requirements Document.

•Considers data from all sources, e.g., customer requirements, market analysis data, revenue numbers. Analyzes and understands competitors and their products as well as potential partner relationships for the product along with Business Development.

•Researches market need and creates the business case for the product. Analyzes financial impact of program changes. Drives cost model for products. Tracks, forecasts, and reports key performance indicators for the product, and introduces features and processes to influence change.

•Leverages product/market knowledge to assist cross-functional groups including Product Marketing and field personnel with training content.

•Drives Product Marketing and Program Management to develop and implement a company-wide go-to-market plan for a product, working with all departments to execute.

•Leads research, development, and presentation of new product concepts to gain timely management approval and handling of issues for product feature/function set. Drives solutions across development teams (primarily Engineering Development and Marketing) through product requirements, product contract, and positioning.

•Develops key value propositions and messaging for products and drives product roadmap to fulfill it.

•For every new product, module, and enhancement added to our platform, identify ways to minimize simplify or generalize platform changes, and identify scaling requirements.

•Define and manage externally facing integration points such as APIs and data feeds.

Required Skills and Experience

•Experienced software Product Manager. Knowledge of storage domain, virtualization, and management software platforms a strong plus.

•Passion for building and launching new technologies

•Superior communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills; meeting facilitation and strong follow-up

•Ability to execute a number of parallel tasks and work with cross-functional teams on a day-to-day basis

•Positive, self-starter attitude and desire to exceed client expectations at every opportunity

•Exceptional organizational and analytical skills

•Exceptional technical abilities and ability to work with senior engineers

•Demonstrated skills in gathering requirements from multiple and diverse stake-holders

•Ability to influence others to achieve results

•Negotiation skills

Job ID: 107967BR