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General ResponsibilitiesThe Product Management team is responsible for defining, building, implementing and managing software or digital products within our Hertz Product Portfolio’s. The product management team is responsible knowing the full stack of product management responsibilities from strategy to story writing. They will focus on customer centricity, own the product life-cycle and all of its considerations, along with working with key stakeholders in Marketing to define Key Performance Indicators and targeted audience for implementation.Role definition:The Product Manager is responsible for defining and enabling effective Software Product Management at Hertz. This role will manage the overall product lifecycle from inception to eventual retirement of the product. The Product Manager will be collaborating with the Product Marketing Management team, and other cross functional teams, to build a product team focuses on the fulfillment of a product vision and make it a business success. The role determines what product, enhancements and features to build and is accountable for the business success with that product. The product manager develops and manages strategic product vision, product scoping and the software product roadmap aligned with Product Marketing’s strategic plan.Key Responsibilities:
Collaborate with Product Marketing Managers to generate ideas for a new software product, or for the next version of an existing product.
Works directly with software engineers to answer questions, remove blockers, write and prioritize stories, accept completed stories from the teams.
Collect and prioritize of business and market requirements from customers, domain experts, customers of earlier versions of the product, prospects, domain experts, technology visionaries
Collaborate with Product Marketing Managers to specify what the product should do. Responsible to define Unified Modeling Language (UML) use cases, Unified Modeling Language (UML) Activity Diagrams and HTML mockups. Responsible to define the software development environment, and the software deployment environments (client-server, web, etc.).
Constantly review above specifications with the software engineering team, and manage conflicts between the business units, the sales teams, and the engineering teams, as it applies to the software products to be built out.
Conducts weekly/bi-weekly product demonstrations to stakeholders and customers using web-based conferencing tools and partnering with Product Marketing Managers to build product demonstrations.
Solicits customer feedback, reports software bugs, and works with software engineering for subsequent build / release cycles, as the product stabilizes, and then matures.
Define and manage the product roadmap, product KPI’s
Mandatory Requirements
5-10 years relevant experience in product management or product development with a fast- paced technology company
Experience in building and fostering teams based on lean product development, focused on driving new practices in a fast- paced fortune 500 company
Operates and behaves like a “CEO” of the Software Product Discipline, prefer experience in start-ups
Experience measuring a products’ contribution on sales (top-line) and profits (bottom-line)
Undergraduate degree in engineering, computer science with a minor in marketing or related business degrees.
MIS/MS/MBA desired
EEO StatementHertz is a Drug-Free Workplace. All employment is contingent on successful completion of drug and background screening.Hertz is an equal opportunity affirmative action employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status or domestic partnership status, disability, protected veteran status or military status, genetic information, or any other category protected under applicable law. Hertz is committed to taking affirmative steps to promote the employment and advancement of minorities, women, persons with disabilities and protected veterans.Location US-IL-Bannockburn# Positions 1Category Information TechnologyDivision WHQ - Estero - OnlyPosition Type Regular Full Time
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