Product Manager

We are seeking a bright, collaborative, and driven individual to join our growing Product Management Team for our architecture and engineering focused Ajera product.

Do you have a passion for project accounting and financials and a thirst for software product innovation? Do you have experience in the architecture or engineering industries? This team is looking to invest in someone who wants to embark on a journey into product management. You’ll get involved in understanding client requirements, work closely with engineering team to translate those requirements into product features and manage customer interactions via early adopter programs and other client outreach initiatives.

You must have proven project accounting and project management experience, using Ajera or a similar ERP system and have a huge thirst for personal and professional growth. Not for the faint hearted, this will be a fast paced and at times, intense role, involving working with internal and external product experts where you’ll be expected to use your project accounting experience to bring value to this challenge. Above all, you must love what you do! Below are some of the key responsibilities of this role through the lifecycle of managing requirements from inception to product release:

• Create and own product requirements; establishing a business case for overall need and prioritization
• Perform detailed requirement specifications for new enhancements for the Ajera product
• Work with key stakeholders across the organization to define and prioritize requirements for new features and enhancements
• Work with our Engineering teams to transform requirements into compelling product enhancements
• Attend daily scrums to help the Engineering team move forward on implementing enhancements
• Work with our Product Marketing teams to enable the Sales and Service teams to maximize the impact of product enhancements
• Actively participate in product launch to gauge user adoption
• Assist our customer care organization with product questions and escalations pertaining to Ajera
• Assist the Cloud team in Ajera enhancements and escalations
• Assist in reviewing and managing customer ideas
• Deliver presentations and training to internal groups and external customers as a part of release readiness, user groups and corporate conferences

To be successful in this role, we expect you will have at least

• 5 years’ experience using, implementing, or designing A&E industry specific financial software with a preference for experience in Ajera
• Knowledge of architecture and engineering organizations; market trends, operations, and business drivers
• In-depth knowledge of project accounting processes including both project management, scheduling, cost accounting and financial reporting.
• Experience operating under minimal supervision, with wide latitude for independent judgment
• Proven success of building strong working relationships with cross functional teams
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills, including the ability to communicate clearly with both business and technical stakeholders’ one on one, and in groups of varying size
• Strong problem solving skills to research options and make decision on best path forward
• Experience managing the complete product development lifecycle would be a plus

We’d really like a self-starter that can produce results with minimal direction but yet a team player who is able to quickly develop internal relationships.

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