Full-Time Product Management Engineer Principle

• Act as the “messenger of the market” from the outside into the rest of the organization.
• Analyze various market segments and collaborate with leadership to choose the best ones to pursue.
• Develop product development roadmaps to illustrate the vision and plans for the future.
• Develop and maintain business proposals that make a compelling case for new or continued product investment.
• Collaborate with other stakeholders such as product marketing on the creation of positioning for products.
• Manage the entire product line life cycle from sunsetting legacy products to prototyping and testing new features/products and ideas.
• Drive buy-build-partner analysis and review potential partner relationships for the product where necessary.

• Know why QAD is winning and losing in the market, and drive changes to QAD products and processes to create improvement.
• Keep a finger on the pulse of the competition, and develop strategies and tactics to reduce the threat.
• Train and steer product owners so that they can effectively steer QAD Engineering teams to develop solutions that customers can successfully implement.
• Serve as the internal and external evangelist for the assigned product offering, including presenting at QAD Conferences, Sales workshops, User Groups, partner groups, and specific customer events.
• Assist Sales in positioning and convincing customers of the benefits of QAD products via presentations, customer visits, and participating in sales calls.
• Assist Support in case of escalations or customer debates about fit for the QAD applications. This can require acting as an R&D escalation manager and working directly with an R&D/Support team to resolve the escalation.

Product Strategy and Roadmap: Leverage understanding of assigned product offering/area processes, best practices, market problems, trends, and competitive landscape to provide input and innovative thinking to the strategic product direction, influencing the business direction for new and existing solutions in assigned product offering/area.

Development Plan: Work with R&D product owners, architects, and project managers to translate product roadmap and product positioning into requirements, development plans, and release schedules.

Launch and Go-To-Market: Assist Solutions Marketing and Go-To-Market teams to develop effective early adopter and launch programs.

Partnership with the Customer: Support customer-facing activities like strategic sales/presales calls, discoveries, events, or escalations with presentations, demos, and/or research.

Research and educate: Conduct research on industry trends, market problems, competitive landscape, win/loss and analysts as the foundation for all activities above. Remain abreast of current functional and technical progress. Share research insights with all QAD stakeholders.

Relevant bachelor's degree in business, engineering, or computer science, or comparable experience in Product Management organizations.5+ years of marketing, development, implementation services, sales, or product management experience.Experience with Global Trade and Transportation Execution is required.

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