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VelocityEHS
Senior Product Manager, ESG
Chicago, IL
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https://recruiting.ultipro.com/MSD1000MSDS/JobBoard/1f9339ba-2d37-44eb-813d-06683cb57987/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=e64893e0-13be-4f5f-91b6-6b0ecf5f6c05&
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Position Overview:
THE OPPORTUNITY:
*Open to remote candidates*
As part of the VelocityEHS product management team, you’ll be the messenger of the market and the voice of the customer for our next generation of ESG and sustainability solutions. We’re looking for a Product Manager to represent the customer in our business. We want to empower our users to get the most from their data through innovation and actionable insights. You will play a central role in developing solutions to complex problems using the latest thinking in ESG and sustainability practice and data visualization technology.
This role will suit you if you’re passionate about:
Software as a strategic change and business improvement driver
Consumer-grade B2B solutions delivered via a zero-friction UX
Communicating with stakeholders at all levels to identify and document bottlenecks and opportunities
Collaborating with our Strategy, Development, Marketing, and Sales teams to define solutions aligned with our vision and drive them through the development process to customer value
Making the world a better, safer, more sustainable place
PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Key Responsibilities include:
Understand the product market, strengths, weaknesses, competitive landscape, company & strategic vision and their interdependencies.
Build and maintain the relationships to support the gathering, documenting, and sharing of market intelligence from customers, competitors, industry analysts and trends.
Build, maintain, and communicate your product roadmap with internal and external stakeholders.
Research, write, and present business cases in collaboration with product marketing managers and solution strategists in support of proposals for new product development projects in line with the roadmap.
Work with business analysts, developers, and developers to deliver valuable, customer-centric solutions.
Make data-driven decisions regarding product development priorities while balancing business needs and technical realities.
Collaborate with the marketing team to develop the right positioning and messaging that resonates with our target buyer personas.
Understand and support our sales and customer success teams; enable them to understand the problems the product solves for our customers and users.
Measures of Success:
Customer engagement, satisfaction, renewals, and product/market fit.
Roadmap management effectiveness, timeliness, and scope coverage.
Product management process, throughput, team engagement, and target outcome achievement.
Roadmap delivery, schedule and budget adherence, and customer acceptance.
Minimum Skills & Qualifications:
Empathy, humility, curiosity, and business acumen.
5+ years of product management experience with a record of successfully delivering B2B SaaS products to market.
Strong skills in problem-framing, research, documentation, and stakeholder engagement.
Independent thinker, multi-domain collaborator, and experienced negotiator.
Demanding business user of web and mobile applications.
Preferred Skills & Qualifications:
Scrum Product Owner Certification.
Pragmatic Institute Certified (PMC) II or higher.
Experience in ESG, EHS, and sustainability.
Experience in competitive analysis, sales planning, and financial planning.
Other:
Travel up to 15%.
Comfortable working with remote colleagues using conferencing tools.
Occasional work outside of normal working hours.