Product Manager (Finance)

Who is Promethean?

Collaborative discovery is at the heart of the learning experience. With more than two decades helping people learn and grow together, Promethean is a true partner for educators, innovators, and business leaders. Our award-winning interactive displays and lesson delivery solutions transform learning and workspaces into creative, connected environments to foster collective success.

At the heart of Promethean is a team of education strategists, designers, and technologists that is dedicated to inspiring engagement and empowering teachers and students around the world. Our goal is to make education technology commonplace in all learning environments, and we strive every day to develop intuitive solutions that speed learning, insights, and creativity.

The Promethean team spans the globe and our work impacts the lives of millions of teachers and students. We stand by our solutions and our employees, offering highly competitive benefits and compensation, as well as providing a work-life balance that lifts and sustains us as we navigate a new future.

We are #TeamPromethean. Join us.

A bit more about the Product team... Promethean's product team obsesses over finding creative solutions to our customers' problems. We lead with our curiosity and strive to learn constantly as we build the technology that will inspire educator, students, and innovators alike. At Promethean, product managers create the vision and strategy that empowers our engineering team to deliver world-class solutions. They are responsible for product definition, planning and execution. Promethean product managers spend time gathering user feedback, reviewing data for research and validation, prioritizing work for engineering teams, measuring results and driving continuous improvement. They partner with engineering, QA and UX teams to deliver solutions that bring joy to our customers.

About this team...

Product Managers at Promethean are obsessed with solving customer problems, and they always view solutions through the lens of customer value delivery. They are responsible for the definition, planning and execution of features and user stories. In managing the full Product Lifecycle, Product Managers spend their time gathering user feedback, reviewing data for research and validation, prioritizing work for engineering teams, measuring results and driving continuous improvement. They collaborate with engineering, QA and UX teams to deliver working software that delights customer. The incumbent will likely begin by focusing on our flagship interactive flat panel displays but will work on a variety of products within their time at Promethean.

As a Product Manager at Promethean, you will...

• Generate and own product vision for Firmware (FW) and Software (SW) needed for new and in-life products.
• Define product strategy and roadmap for the next 3-4 quarters within your defined area of focus
• Work directly with development teams to execute product strategy for the current and next quarter.
• Define requirements, objectives, and success metrics (KPIs) for your products and features
• Make tough tactical prioritization decisions day-to-day, while helping keep the team focused on the long-term vision
• Facilitates customer discovery for new features including generation and review of wireframes, in collaboration w/ partners in UX and development, and shares a deep understanding of customer pleasers and pain-points with the organization
• Generate epics and business cases as a result of customer and market research
• Manage the lifecycles of features in the product backlog from ideation through sunset
• Drives cross-functional communication to ensure successful development and delivery of working hardware, software and/or firmware to the customer

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience in product management with a focus on SW and FW development
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about bringing new features and products to market, and how to solve customer problems with measured results
• Skilled at navigating ambiguous problem-spaces, gathering the data and input you need to drive toward clarity
• Technical competence, leveraged to drive strong cross-functional relationships with development teams. Experience with the Android operating system and hardware devices and firmware development (preferred)
• Superior communication skills required, ability to share vision through the use of written and spoken language and images
• Excellence in problem solving: able to identify desired outcomes and work strategically to achieve them by skillfully overcoming obstacles
• Experience in Ed Tech is a plus but not required

This role is office based. Therefore, a requirement of this job is that you be fully vaccinated with the Covid-19 vaccine at least 3 weeks prior to your first day in the office. If you require an exemption from this requirement for a medical reason or sincerely held religious belief, practice or observation, please contact recruiting to request such an exemption.

At Promethean...

We are driven to continuously innovate and develop educational technology that inspires students to unleash their potential. We believe in the power of education to change the world and come to work each day with our sleeves rolled up ready to make a difference! However, we also appreciate that life isn't just about work. We are a small company with big rewards and understand that you also need time to unwind. Join a company where you can be your best self, work on challenging problems, and have some fun along the way; join Promethean.

Promethean is honored to be an equal opportunity workplace. We realize that by creating teams rich in diverse thoughts and experiences, our people, company and customers are free to thrive. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, creed, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation or gender identity), age, marital status, disability, military or veteran status; or any other protected classifications or characteristics under applicable local laws. In addition, Promethean values privacy and the protection of personal information. For information regarding personal information we collect and our use of such data please see our privacy policy: https://bit.ly/2I83hwP