Product Manager

JANA has a progressive culture of personal and professional growth. With a vested interest in each employee’s professional growth and continuous improvement as an individual, JANA supports professional development, continuous education, industry participation and technical accreditations. Other Perks that come with joining JANA’s Team include:

- High-energy Collaborative Environment: JANA combines the energy of a start-up software organization with the discipline of a precision engineering firm.
- Regular Social Events: Join the entire JANA Team for fun Social Events like our Weekly Kahoot and Beer Club, Annual Birthday Bonspiel, Ice Cream Parties, Holiday events, Cinco de Mayoeven an Easter Egg Hunt
- Best-in-Class Benefits: JANA offers all employees a comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Disability coverage, as well as our great Wellness Benefit
- Giving Back: JANA is dedicated to giving back to our community in various ways. Every year we hold an annual food drive for the Aurora Foodbank and have become one of their top contributors
- JANA promotes a healthy work-life balance: Through our comprehensive vacation program, floater days, and a hybrid work environment (combination of in-office and work-from-home), JANA employees are able to take time to rest and rejuvenate

Members of JANA’s Product Team, under the direction of the Head of Product and in heavy collaboration with JANA’s Market Managers, JANA’s Product Managers own JANA’s sustainability. Product Managers are single-threaded leaders responsible for a single product in a single market segment. Product Managers are ultimately responsible for the P&L of their product, considering the operational needs of our Project Delivery teams and owning the execution of product roadmaps.

Product Managers drive the execution of all product lifecycle processes for their product - including product research, market research, competitive analysis, planning, positioning, roadmap development, requirements development, and product launch - in support of JANA’s overall strategy and goals. Product Managers must work together with Market Managers to ensure our products are attractive and easy to use, that our clients enjoy engaging with our products, and that we have embedded our clients’ jobs-to-be-done into every aspect of our products. Product Managers manages the Whole Product Offering, including software features, risk model development, training and support materials, implementation and support processes, and others, coordinating and prioritizing effort between these areas based on the ROI and P&L impacts.

**Responsibilities**:

- Leverages expertise in the Jobs to Be Done theory to understand JANA’s clients’ needs better than JANA’s clients understand their needs
- Translates business strategy into Whole Product strategy
- Plans and carries out launches for Whole Product Offerings
- Manages product profitability and commercial success
- Leads the vision, roadmap, and prioritization of features, including requirements gathering, in partnership with Market Managers, Account Managers and JANA’s Client Experience Team
- Analyzes gaps in current product capabilities and assists Product and Project teams with gap prioritization
- Facilitates discussions with stakeholders through discovery sessions and user interviews to understand clients’ current state business processes
- Brings a customer-centric view to the curation and prioritization of product features
- Provides Marketing with insights on key differentiators and messaging
- Owns the product roadmap, including versioning, release planning and sign off
- Translates and documents feature definition and epics into detailed user stories with tangible/meaningful acceptance criteria and requirements for design and implementation
- Working with development team, plans, aligns sprints with product roadmap, adjusting priority as needed, reviews and signs off acceptance criteria
- Owns the development and maintenance of all training materials, user guides, installation documentation and release notes
- Creates product strategy documents, analyzing client needs and current market trends, to describe business cases, high-level use cases, technical requirements, revenue, and ROI
- Assesses current competitor offerings, seeking opportunities for differentiation

Required Skills & Experience
- Undergraduate degree in Business or a STEM field
- 7+ years in a Technology organization
- 5+ years experience as a Product Manager or Associate Product Manager
- Expert knowledge of the Jobs to Be Done theory
- Strategic thinker, with proven ability to document and communicate product strategies and recommendations to senior leadership
- Ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
- Must be able to travel in the US and Canada up to 20% of the time