Senior Product Manager - Bengaluru/Bangalore @ Hitachi

The Role Product Definition

- Develop a deep understanding of customer needs and use-cases in the Industrial IoT and Manufacturing domain
- Work with field teams to recognize product requirements vs. features that should be delivered by services
- Document use cases, requirements and features
- Exercise judgement to prioritize effectively
- Research and understand the competitive landscape to create a differentiated roadmap
- Create compelling value proposition based on customeruser interaction and market research

Field Support

- Develop and deliver presentations and demonstrations for internal and external audiences
- Support sales with competitive, strategic analysis, and closing of critical deals
- Deliver roadmap presentations
- Be an expert in your product
Manage product feedback
- Use and learn the product deeply
- Work with customers, the field, partners and analysts to understand product strengths and weaknesses
- Analyze, synthesize and prioritize incoming requests
- Communicate effectively with field and customers about product plans
- Convey the voice of customer to Product Owners and Product Design

Team and Process

- Identify opportunities for process and team improvement
- Develop processes and infrastructure to help the team work more effectively
- Organize the team for effective role clarity and goals while enabling them to be successful
- Communicate with precision and clarity
- Take a feature from ideation through launch and rollout including interactions with marketing, sales, and field enablement Qualifications

- Computer Science or Engineering degree or equivalent technical experienceaptitude
- Experience with mfg domain areas like SCM, Production, Quality, Safety
- 5 or more years of demonstrated success in product management
- Experience managing a team of PMs
- Experience with IoT technologies including Data Historians and different OT protocols (e.g. OPC, Modbus, etc.)
- Comfort level with enterprise software tech such as web and application servers, enterprise security, clustering and virtualization, and tools for managing agile software delivery
- Great organizational skills and attention to detail
- Emotional and social intelligence
- Strong work ethic and business acumen
- Willingness to work with customers all over the world
- 5-15 years of work experience in enterprise software industry or IIoT
- Experience working with teams located globally
- MBA or demonstrated interestaptitude for corporate and product strategy
- Willingness to travel (20% - 30%) and work odd hours (occasionally)