Director/Senior Product Manager

About Contruent

The mega project construction industry is one of the world’s largest and fastest growing industries and at the same time, is one of the last to adopt software automation, until now. With technology advancements, the construction industry is embracing smart software solutions at a dizzying rate, and the best organizations are turning to powerful solutions like Contruent Enterprise.

Contruent Enterprise is a world class cost management software solution – a gold standard, used in mega construction projects in 26 countries around the world. Contruent ignites and sustains construction project momentum for Owners and Construction Managers with 25 years of best practices, customer input and industry expertise so they can meet on-time and on-budget expectations for mega construction projects like railroads, highways, airports, mining and other large endeavors.

Even more exciting, Contruent recently partnered with growth equity company, M33 Growth, to significantly accelerate growth, including materially increasing our investment in the product team to and customer experience. With this investment, Contruent has attracted a world class leadership team that collectively has expertise in construction, project management, product innovation and customer experience innovation. We are looking to fill out the product team to help realize the opportunity to deliver SaaS web and mobile technology to the construction capital project industry.

The Role – Position Overview

As a Senior Product Manager for Contruent Enterprise you will be responsible for developing new capabilities for our award-winning cloud-based capital project management solution. Working with the Chief Product Officer, designers, and the engineering team you will immerse yourself in the needs of the users to help drive the product strategy and deliver the best products that drive value for Contruent and its customers.

The ideal candidate is customer-oriented with great product management and communication skills. This position is highly cross-functional working closely with UX, Development and Business teams. You will need the ability to successfully manage cross-functional teams, understand what is needed to successfully build products with the technical teams while representing the voice of the customer. You must be able to work independently and have a history of successful product planning and releases. You will leverage your strategic and technical skills, and industry background to influence Contruent’s rapidly growing SaaS and mobile offerings.

Responsibilities:

• Set product objectives and align other functions like engineering, quality, marketing, operations, and sales around a common set of business goals.
• Perform product discovery activities through frequent customer interaction, collecting, synthesizing, and broadcasting feedback and insights from our users throughout the company.
• Prioritize the work that aligns the most customer benefit and highest return for the company, establishing linkages to company objectives and defining success criteria.
• Provide effective cross-functional leadership, ensuring team members are aligned behind and aware of product direction.
• Define and own the core metrics you use to measure usage, adoption, and retention of your product(s).
• Steward the Product Development Process for the product management team, including the development and enforcement of best practices.
• Own the full lifecycle of from ideation, requirements definition, implementation, iteration, support, and retention.

Requirements – What you have:

• An impressive track record of software delivery that achieves desired business outcomes and provides real customer value.,
• Detail-orientation that embraces learning about customers, the technology, and the business.
• A strong analytical ability and a proven track record of leveraging data to drive decisions.
• Deep curiosity and a desire to understand “the why” behind customer behaviors, trends, and internal decisions.
• At least 7 years prior work experience with 3 years prior product management experience.
• Prior experience in the construction industry with service firms or software providers preferred.

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