Product Manager

About Centerbase

Centerbase is a cloud-based legal operations system that empowers midsize law firms to run their practice with confidence. It’s a highly scalable and configurable system that liberates legal teams from manual work by automating routine tasks and connecting them in a single collaborative workspace. Boasting a comprehensive feature set of billing, accounting, and practice management tools plus the ability to offer full-history data migrations, Centerbase has become the go-to solution for midsize law firms.

Centerbase started with the same fundamental purpose that drives the company today: solving real problems. That drive has made us the fastest-growing company in Legal Tech, with a mission to power the growth of law firms.

Centerbase has an amazing team, and we pride ourselves in having an exceptional culture that is the perfect combination of professionalism, hard work, and fun. We reward performance, and all our team members have the opportunity to make an immediate impact.

About this Role:

Product Managers are leaders that push the envelope and move the needle. As key decision-makers at Centerbase, they combine their intellectual aptitude, business insight, analytical skills, and technical understanding to formulate strategies that support and strengthen the company’s overall vision. As a voice of the product and the user, they listen to concerns and needs while having a “knack” for what will work. The leadership they exhibit, by persuading and aligning management, stakeholders, & internal teams, enables their teams to design, develop, and deliver competitive products.

Responsibilities:

• Write clear and concise acceptance criteria, requirements, and user stories
• Collect and analyze feedback from customers, stakeholders, and other teams to shape user stories, groom, and prioritize the backlog
• Incorporate feature requests into product roadmaps
• Oversee implementation, coordinate tests, and observe initiation of the system to validate the performance
• Identify user needs, translate ideas into strategy and user stories,
• Ensure products and releases are launched correctly and on schedule
• Develop and implement product strategies consistent with the company’s vision
• Work with senior management to identify areas of opportunity, evaluate the competitive landscape, and create product plans and roadmaps
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to plan product releases, and clarify or update requirements
• Make creative recommendations to expand the product base and vision
• Suggest ways to track product use and impact on end-users
• Analyze preferences and requests of end-users & keep track of industry trends
• Communicates with radical candor about flaws in the product, process, and more
• Have operational knowledge of software products within the company
• Performs other job-related duties and responsibilities as assigned

Requirements:

• 4-5 years of previous experience as a Product Manager. Experience with software development and web technologies
• Proficient in Agile software development methodologies and principles
• Experience leading and managing cross-functional agile teams that deliver user-facing products
• Solid ability to communicate effectively and at a relatable level with internal teams & all levels of management
• Ability to usually make correct sound decisions even in the presence of major ambiguity
• Ability to frame the right questions, evaluate multiple facets of a problem, derive solutions, and simulate possible outcomes
• Ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutions
• Confident and have a knack for knowing what ideas will and won’t work
• Can empathize with the user(s) of the system to determine solutions that provide value
• Organizational and leadership abilities
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills
• A history of leading and supporting successful projects

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