Senior Product Manager

This position has been filled – 3/8/22

 

We are seeking a talented Senior Product Manager to join our team. The ideal candidate brings a demonstrated background in business and customer focused value creation in the domain of training and simulation. This is a new role in a new product group and will be extremely influential to the future success of STI.

You will love this job if you:

  • Are excited by new VR hardware and software.
  • Enjoy creating unique experiences that solve real problems for customers.
  • Are looking for the opportunities of a startup but prefer an established company.
  • Excited by defining the next generation of mixed reality simulations.
  • Are ready to direct an accomplished team of engineers and designers to build impactful XR training and simulation products

We are looking for someone who has a mix of experience and interest in virtual reality, augmented reality, 3D graphics, and/or simulations.  We expect that candidates will have mixed levels of experience working among some subset of these or similar technologies, a good grasp of the fundamentals, and an avid interest to learn and grow in VR/AR/FR and simulations.

Our team is very strong in software, math and physical engineering and has strong perspectives on technical approaches to problems.  The ideal candidate will bring a business perspective and confidence to point this team in the right direction and drive them to a goal with clear market value.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Drive product and business-planning process for the training and simulation business unit
  • Analyze customer needs to identify market opportunities and form a POV on the best way to exploit these opportunities
  • Assess competitor offerings and analyze adjacent market product opportunities
  • Create MRD and PRD documents, drive consensus among stakeholders and executives
  • Generate detailed technical requirements within the internal technical development processes and tools
  • Own the product development lifecycle from concept to end-of-life
  • Develop go-to-market strategies, marketing plans and work with sales to drive successful product launches
  • Define the product vision and drive the roadmap for our products
  • Collect and measure key product metrics against goals to inform success of each release and plan iterations accordingly
  • Translate market trends into a compelling product direction and vision
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, product design or related field of study. MBA a plus.
  • 5+ years of product management experience in a technical field.
  • Demonstrated business acumen
  • Successfully launched at least one XR product in a training and simulation market segment
  • Strong leader with articulate and rational product decision process
  • Clear communicator both in written and spoken media
  • Able to travel as needed to identify customer needs – up to 25%.

Preferred:

  • Experience building and launching products based on the Unity framework.
  • Certified scrum master or other direct experience with software development processes.
  • Experience with cross-functional products that include hardware and software components.
  • Experience with tools like JIRA, Confluence, and Slack.

 

 

Please send resume to [email protected]