Product Manager

CEB is a best practice insight and technology company. In partnership with leading organizations around the globe, we develop innovative solutions to drive corporate performance. CEB equips leaders at more than 10,000 companies with the intelligence to effectively manage talent, customers, and operations, including 90% of the Fortune 500, nearly 75% of the Dow Jones Asian Titans, and more than 85% of the FTSE 100.

As a Product Manager at CEB, you would be supporting the product development of groundbreaking, cloud-based talent management digital products that help companies to hire the best employees, develop their skills, and create an engaging workplace. You would support the agile development process, collaborating with internal teams and gathering client feedback to help scope, design, and work with software engineers to develop successful digital products. You would be positively impacting the professional lives of millions of people globally.

* Release great products, on-time: You make decisions quickly. You ensure there’s continual progress toward milestones. You prioritize needs and requests coming from multiple directions, in order to deliver the most value to clients and our business. * Collaborate with business stakeholders: You actively listen to strategy and needs from colleagues in sales, advisory and management roles. You transform those into needs into product designs, discrete features and requirements, and then keep the teams informed and involved throughout the product development process with excellent communication and training skills. * Design for users: You communicate directly and regularly with stakeholders to fully understand users’ workflows, mindsets, and experiences using our products. You run user tests of prototypes and live software to identify improvements. You serve as a voice of the customer, incorporating client feedback into requirements, designs and feature roadmaps. You generate enthusiasm for new products by leading client demos. * Work well with software engineers: You are experienced with agile development. You document feature requirements in user stories clearly and comprehensively. You address questions quickly. While you might not have programming experience, you are savvy with technology, understanding databases, cloud-based software, web development, etc. * Help improve our processes: You identify aspects of our product development processes that are suboptimal and take the lead to improve them. Through your ideas, collaboration and leadership, we become more agile, more innovative, and bring better products to market faster.

**Who would be our ideal candidate?** * Bachelor’s degree required * 3-5 years of relevant product management experience required * At least 1-2 years experience with agile product development, writing epics and stories * A demonstrated history of supporting or leading the delivery of digital products from concept to production * Experience with mobile-first, responsive design and mobile app development * Experience developing B2B SaaS applications and talent management products is a plus **Key Competencies** * Entrepreneurial: High energy level, sense of urgency, responsive, confident, thorough, not afraid to make decisions, oriented toward practical solutions * Strong work ethic: Ability to overcome setbacks and enthusiastically persist until ambitious goals are achieved—must be resourceful, creative and innovative * Accountable: Results-oriented team player who leads by example, holds self accountable for performance, takes ownership, champions efforts with enthusiasm and conviction * Great attitude: Resourceful, collaborative, adaptable, fun, solid sense of humor and able to influence others