Senior Manager, Product Manager - Claris
Apple
Product
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Posted on Jan 5, 2025
Summary
Posted:
Weekly Hours: 40
Role Number:200583844
Claris International Inc. is the creator of world’s leading Workplace Innovation Platform, offering a suite of tools that empower problem solvers to drive digital transformation in businesses large and small. The company has more than 1 million active users globally across SMBs and the Fortune 500. The Claris product management team is looking for a Senior Product Manager with a passion for delivering delightful experiences and drive ambitious projects towards completion. The person in this role, will lead a team of product managers and, through them, will contribute driving the stability, growth and improvement of Claris development platform. It is a great opportunity to work on critical strategy initiatives in a collaborative, fast-paced team.
Description
Partner with the head of this division and other heads of departments to maintain clear and effective product strategy and ensure that all team members understand and are following them at all times. Product Managers in our organization sit at the intersection of software development, design, and business strategy. We shape high-level product goals but also get our hands dirty. On an average day, you might pitch a concept to senior leadership, create a launch plan with marketing, work with designers and researchers to conduct user interviews or concept tests, conceptualize a new feature, analyze usage data, and/or contribute to the overall company strategy. We have ultimate responsibility for understanding our client needs, influencing business strategy, prioritizing product features, and collaborating with engineering to develop our products. Key Responsibilities - Set clear goals, provide regular feedback, and evaluate team performance to ensure continuous improvement. - Define and communicate a unified product strategy and roadmap that aligns with company objectives, ensuring prioritization of the most impactful initiatives. - Work with product managers to ensure their individual roadmaps contribute to broader business goals. - Partner closely with engineering, design, sales, and marketing teams to ensure seamless execution, product delivery, and market success - Drive a customer-centric approach by ensuring product managers gather, analyze, and act on customer feedback, market trends, and competitive insights. - Establish and refine product development processes, tools, and frameworks to drive consistency, efficiency, and scalability across the team. - Oversee resource allocation, risk management, and execution to deliver products on time and within scope
Minimum Qualifications
- 6+ years experience in the product management role; or similar experience having successfully delivered product to market.
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent education. Technical background is preferred.
- Proven track record of building high-performing product management teams
Key Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- Skilled in coaching product managers to improve decision-making, prioritization, and leadership abilities
- Experience overseeing the development and launch of successful products, ideally in the rapid application development space
- Strong prioritization skills to balance immediate needs and long-term goals.
- Experience conducting user research and integrating customer feedback into decision-making.
- Strong understanding of business metrics, including revenue drivers, P&L management, and ROI with the ability to align product strategies with broader business goals.
- Ability to conceptualize and drive complex projects with competing priorities, multiple stakeholders, and quick timelines
- Familiar with developer tools, software lifecycle, rapid app development platform, and low code market
- Proven ability to articulate thoughts and express ideas through written and/or verbal communication to internal stakeholders, executives, partners, and customers.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Proficient with software development processes, APIs, automation, and platform integrations
- You have a proven ability to solve problems, an interest in continuous learning and digging deep into the domain when necessary.
- You strive for excellence in everything that you do.
- Knowledge of competitive trends in AI, automation, and integration in low-code platforms
- You have a can-do attitude, and seize every opportunity and empower others to reach their goals along the way.
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Pay & Benefits
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