What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Manager position at Validity?
About the Role
Validity is looking for a best-in-class Product Manager with a proven track record as a leader in creating value to customers through technology solutions.
Our Product Managers are a lynchpin in the organization – working with many parts of the business to ensure our products are top-notch and meet customer needs. You will be responsible for product planning and execution of advanced technical solutions throughout the product lifecycle, with a heavy emphasis on the company’s data pipeline that serves Validity’s entire product suite.
Team Dynamic
To be successful here, you must demonstrate Personal/Professional Growth, Professionalism, Execution, and Strategic Thinking; have a Positive Impact and a great sense of humor.
Position Duties and Responsibilities
- Contributing to problem and solution discovery efforts by conducting internal stakeholder and customer interviews and research, and developing and running validity experiments to validate concepts
- Writing cards that articulate work to be done by Engineering in support of solutions and production support
- Driving Agile ceremonies, including planning, grooming, demos, and retrospectives
- Maintaining a prioritized backlog that aligns with available Engineering capacity and maps to an overall solution roadmap
- Working closely with Engineering to ensure solutions are ultimately delivered in a timely and cost-effective manner
- Working closely with our Data Service team to acquire, evaluate and integrate new data sources
- Performing validation testing of production releases, bug fixes, and feature requests.
- Supporting Knowledge, Service and Product Marketing in the development of feature descriptions and new release content
- Representing, articulating and coordinating technical implementations of solutions with internal stakeholders, customers and prospects
- Developing materials and training of technical data workflows, access, and availability to educate and evangelize the use of verification data in Validity’s solutions
- Coordinating with key stakeholders to set the vision, strategy, and roadmap of the verifications team
- Conducting solution demos to internal stakeholders, customers, and prospects
Required Experience/Skills
- 5-7 years of experience executing the process of defining and building products, with specific exposure to data services
- Experience managing an Agile backlog for a technical solution
- Familiarity with technical solutions that process vast data sets, which require scalable infrastructure
- Skillset to access and search datasets and build basic analytical models for discovery purposes
- Familiarity with API Integrations
- Ability to balance customer needs with available engineering capacity
- Effective listener that can get to the root of customer problems / needs
- Confident, clear, and concise oral and written communicator to both technical and executive level audiences
- Highly organized
- Coachability and willing to take and apply feedback when necessary. Open to and eager to learn new concepts and practices.
- Flexibility in working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Passion and enthusiasm for building amazing products that solve customer problems!
Preferred Experience, Skills, and Education
- Develop and drive the future vision and direction of the verifications product line as both a stand-alone solution and a complement to other parts of the Validity portfolio.
- Lead discovery efforts by conducting internal stakeholder and customer interviews and research, and developing and running experiments to validate concepts
- Write cards that articulate work to be done by Engineering in support of solutions and production support
- Drive Agile ceremonies, including planning, grooming, demos, and retrospectives
- Maintain a prioritized backlog that aligns with available Engineering capacity and maps to an overall solution roadmap
- Work closely with Engineering to ensure solutions are ultimately delivered in a timely and cost-effective manner
- Perform validation testing of production releases, bug fixes, and feature requests.
- Support Knowledge, Service, and Product Marketing in the development of feature descriptions and new release content
- Represent, articulate and coordinate technical implementations of solutions with internal stakeholders, customers, and prospects
- Develop materials and training of technical data workflows, access, and availability to educate and evangelize the use of data in Validity’s solutions
- Coordinate with key stakeholders to set the vision, strategy, and roadmap of the verifications team.
- Conduct solution demos to internal stakeholders, customers, and prospects
About Validity
For over 20 years, tens of thousands of organizations across the world have relied on Validity solutions to target, contact, engage, and retain customers – using trustworthy data as a key advantage. Validity’s flagship products – Everest, DemandTools, BriteVerify, and GridBuddy Connect – are all highly rated, #1 solutions for sales and marketing professionals. These solutions deliver smarter email campaigns, more qualified leads, more productive sales, and ultimately faster growth.
Validity is a truly unique company - massive revenue growth, top-tier investors, 5-star product ratings, proven ability to acquire and integrate top tech companies and welcome them into the Validity family, a winning culture, and a work environment that fosters hard work, trust, and fun.
Headquartered in Boston, Validity has offices in Tampa, Denver, London, Paris, Sao Paulo, and Sydney. For more information, connect with us on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter.
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Validity is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.
