Director of Product Management, Enterprise Applications

CoreTechs Direct is a full service recruitment company representing opportunities throughout North America. Our specialty is recruiting engineers that are developing, building and supporting emerging technology companies

Growing, high profitable software company is looking for a seasoned Product Manager with demonstrated success in enterprise application product development and management. Primary customers are sophisticated government intelligence agencies. The individual must have a good understanding in data mining and data analytics fields of large datasets preferably including geo-spatial data. The individual must have a passion for defining products with rich user interfaces that blend seamlessly with customers work flows. The individual must possess technical expertise, project management experience and a strong knowledge of the sales, engineering, agile software development and support processes. Creativity is key requirement as many times the customer looks for us to provide solutions to their problems. This position is strongly cross-functional in nature, requiring strong working relationships with multiple teams, including Sales, Marketing, Research, Engineering, and Operations. In addition to internal constituents, you will also work with customers, prospects, and partners to understand the market requirements and to support the business. The work with customers is often quite consultative in nature, and therefore a strong problem solving orientation is critical, and past professional services or consulting experience would be very valuable in this Position. The enterprise application has a GIS and data visualization frontend with a backend operating on TB to PB data workloads.

* Create and manage the overall Product Management process for applications * Deliver a complete product to the market (software, hardware, services, documentation, sales tools) * Gather and analyze feedback from customer, sales, marketing, development and the market * Lead our internal process to define the product strategy, roadmap and priorities * Serve as the customer representative in planning and requirements definition * Develop requirements documents and use cases for new product features * Develop whitepapers and product brochures * Monitor the status of agile development projects supporting new features * Conduct business-level verification and market testing of new features * Become an expert on competitive products in the marketplace * Be a go-to person and strategic leader for the product within the company * Perform product demonstrations and product technical presentations * Perform analysis for build/buy/partner decisions * Manage all 3rd party technology product vendors and contracts

The individual must be highly entrepreneurial and a strategic thinker who can solve today issues in a young company as well as build processes for growth to a large company infrastructure. The individual will need to be hands-on and work closely with all levels in the company, including senior management. The individual needs to have: * Ability to motivate team members and accomplish goals * Ability to cover whatever gaps that may exist in the process to get the product shipped * Proactive in identifying problems early and to prioritize deliverables * Excellent business and technical writing skills (whitepapers, brochures, requirements) * Able to very effectively work with remote teams * Good combination of technical and business background * Effectively communicate with engineers and executives * Demonstrated success in defining and launching excellent products * Self-motivated, smart and quick to learn Interest in, and focus on, customers and passionate about creating great user experiences * Willing to travel, locally and internationally. Likely 20-30% * Excellent project management and organizational skills * Excellent written and verbal communication skills * Good knowledge of agile software development processes **Education and Experience** * MSEE/MSCS. MBA is a plus * 7+ years in developing software based enterprise products * 4+ years in managing software based and UI rich enterprise products * 2+ years in project management of agile software development * Technical background in data mining and/or predictive analytics products * Technical background in commercial relational databases and/or big data technologies * Technical background in public communication networks (e.g. wireless, IP) * Technical/business background in surveillance/intelligence fields (e.g. financial fraud) * Background in GIS is a big plus