Product Manager - IT Management Tools
Who you are: Ready to join an IT company with a radically unique business model? Willing to forget what you know about product monetization (our IT products are 100% free)? If you think way outside the box, challenge “givens,” and would manage a product as you would your own startup, Spiceworks wants you! We’re looking for a Product Manager who would jump at the chance to define a successful business roadmap and strategy.
What makes Development at Spiceworks different: We take a lot of pride in the culture we've created here at Spiceworks. Read all about it from the words of our CTO and Co-Founder, Francis Sullivan. Also, be sure to check out Fix It Week - a practice that has grown in the Dev department and one our team finds instrumental in their overall success.
ResponsibilitiesYour day-to-day (as a Product Manager, you’ll):
- Have a leadership position requiring a mix of technical and marketing knowledge and people skills
- Practice lean startup principles:
- Discover customer/user pain points
- Experiment to eliminate uncertainty (fail fast, fail cheap)
- Define and release your MVP, learn by observing
- Know and measure your funnel and metrics
- Know your growth engine, tune it, and pivot if needed
- Know when it’s time to stop investing and build your next product
- Be familiar with the concepts of SEO, required to design high-reach tools and products
- Lead a cross-functional team, including Demand Marketing/Engineering to drive product launches and accelerated growth
- Establish credibility with Engineering based on your ability to define winning products
- Be involved in the definition of the go-to-market strategy including communication of positioning, launch strategy, PR, and sales enablement to drive product launches
- Work with the Marketing to track your funnel and react to deviations
What does it take to do this job?:
- At least 4 years of Product Management experience in IT
- Strong understanding of the IT operations and management market space
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to think and execute at both strategic and operational levels
- Experience working in an Agile development environment (definition of epics and user stories)
- MBA is a plus
Other
- Minimal travel. Despite having too many users to visit in person, we still listen and stay close via phone interviews, surveys, and our millions-strong IT pro community.
Ready to toss your hat in the ring? Apply here! (and don’t forget to include a cover letter to let us know why you’re up to spice snuff).