What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Manager position at ADB?
ADB Global SA is a company headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland with three divisions: Broadband Products Group, Video Products Group and vuTyme, the leading provider of in-room entertainment solutions for hotels and other commercial customers.
vuTyme is looking for a Product Manager. who will be responsible for the product creation, strategy, execution and management of all vuTyme products. This is both a strategic and operational role reporting to the President of vuTyme. The primary objectives include analyzing existing products and making recommendations to improve product market fit and identifying new product opportunities or enhancements. Our Product Manager will be “hands-on” conducting market and competitor analysis, financial ROI calculations and managing the product launch process. This position will determine the appropriate product strategies as part of the overall product planning process. This position will be the subject matter expert on our existing products and will provide support to the engineering team during the development process as well as assist the Sales teams in customer meetings, trainings and demonstrations.
What you’ll do:
- Meet with customers along the value chain (Cable Companies, Hotels and End Users) to understand market demand.
- Evaluate and prioritize key markets and technological opportunities to enhance the company’s product portfolio.
- Analyze existing product performance.
- Perform regular benchmarking, competitive analysis, technological evaluations.
- Define product deployment plans including appropriate market testing.
- Oversee product development efforts from product concept to market launch, including coordination and evaluation of results for market tests.
- Lead product roadmap creation and work with customers and internal stakeholders to modify and improve our roadmap.
- Support sales planning and activities.
- Monitor product quality issues and work with appropriate internal stakeholders, third-party partners and customers to address any issues.
- Communicate product information and updates to appropriate departments.
- Insure all local, regional, and federal laws as well as industry regulations are followed for both software and hardware products and services.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, marketing, related field, or equivalent experience.
- Minimum five (5) Years of product management or product development experience
- Experience with lean product processes and agile SW/SaaS development life cycles.
- Ability to collaborate with stakeholders and partners to negotiate features and change requests and to generate requirements for R&D
- Demonstrably strong written and verbal communication skills in English are required. Proficiency in another language is a definite plus. We are a global company with operations and customers in US, Australia, Taiwan, Italy, Switzerland and Poland.
- Experience working abroad or in a global company.
- Ability to establish and maintain professional relationships across cultures.
- Strong presentation and negotiation skills.
- Self-motivated and independent, with the ability to work effectively in a dynamic multi-project environment.
- Software development coding skills are a definite plus.
- Occasional travel is expected both domestic and abroad.
What we offer you:
- Opportunity to build products enjoyed by millions and to be part of a passionate team.
- Collaborative positive working environment
- Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on the role and business need
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage that will start immediately
- Generous holiday, vacation and sick time
- Company match up to 4% on retirement savings plan