Product Manager

Job Description:

• As the Product Manager for IT Applications, you will own the strategy and roadmap for providing custom applications to internal Splunkers, helping them be more efficient at what they do and ultimately enabling our customers to be more self-reliant.
• You will need to use your technical expertise and deep experience in delivering features using Agile methodologies as a Product Owner for this position. To be successful you will have to balance priorities, collaborate with senior leaders, and present to executives while defining detailed functional requirements, delivering within an agile delivery framework, and supervising key performance indicators.
• This position requires you to be a self-starter with the ability to take ownership, work with tight timelines, handle various tasks simultaneously while continuing to develop a positive work culture. In addition, great oral communication and written documentation skills are critical for this role. Join us as we pursue our disruptive new vision to make data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone!

Responsibilities:

• Own the strategic execution of IT Applications roadmap, with key initiatives possibly including:
• Feedback Platform – Pre-release Portal (previews of pre-GA products), released to a subset of customers for feedback
• Marketplace Enablement – Integration of our Splunk offerings through three party cloud providers (i.e. AWS, GCP, etc.)
• Splunk Documentation Platform – The platform for Splunk products user manuals. Catering to our content creators/ authors and our community of splunk users.
• Represent the team as the main interface for collaboration with internal business partners and actively engage with them to ensure delivery is aligned with business needs and the product vision.
• Partner with other product managers, development managers and technical leads across the organization to align strategies, roadmaps, priorities, dependencies, and releases to mitigate risks and issues.
• Actively network with key industry contacts to understand standard methodologies and emerging trends for the domain and how they can be used within the company.
• Define and standardize Key Performance Indicators that will help aid in the decision-making process and showcase results.
• Manage the product backlog to ensure the highest business value is being delivered to our customers.
• Author technical feature requirements in the form of user stories and acceptance criteria for varying business use cases.
• Produce and lead go-live release communications that inform a diverse set of partners and/or users of new features and/or changes.
• Present roadmaps, complex ideas and features to a broad audience effectively.

Skills:

• 5+ years of experience as a product manager
• Past experience working on data products, data warehouses, and/or other data-centric software solutions
• A team player with a relentlessly positive outlook and entrepreneurial spirit
• Intimate knowledge of Agile methodologies and core values to deliver work within the framework as a Product Owner.
• Independently author well-written technical and functional feature requirements in the form of user stories and acceptance criteria for complex technical use cases.
• A proven ability to do both tactical work and set an overall strategy when working on a project–seeing beyond the data to anticipate the next step or question
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment requiring a high degree of productivity, adaptability, innovation and follow-through.
• Strong communication skills: ability to translate quantitative details into clear, succinct summaries and recommendations and influence decisions for peers and executive audiences. Must be comfortable communicating at all levels from C-Suite to junior team members.
• Bachelor’s degree is required

Education:

• Completed a Bachelor’s degree; MBA or similar degree highly preferred. Strong record of academic achievement. Minimum 5 years relevant work experience

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