Product Manager
Evolv Technology, United States
Job Description
We are looking for a product manager to play a leading role in defining our solutions, developing our product roadmap, and collaborating with our engineering and customer-facing teams to expand our product portfolio. This multidisciplinary product leader will have a passion for executing our vision of creating a safer world for people to work, learn and play.
This leader will partner with Evolv’s research team, engineering, sales, marketing, customer success, and our customers to accomplish the following:
- Understand and have a contemporary view of the market needs, technology partners, approaches, and product requirements.
- Work with the Innovation Office and Engineering leadership to identify foundational technologies for new products.
- Own the product roadmap for assigned solution areas.
- Develop and communicate product requirements and use cases, and work with the technical team to ensure products reflect the market needs and are attacking specific client pain points.
- Serve as product champion, providing insight and direction during project development phases.
- Ensure we develop solutions that work for a breadth of customer personas.
- Initiate and own key partner relationships including OEM partners.
- Ensure that the right feature set is defined and developed, and our end-product is priced and packaged correctly.
- Develop a go-to-market plan, work with all Evolv functions to execute, and take responsibility for analyzing and managing potential partner relationships. Work with our management team to make sure Evolv delivers a high-quality, leading edge product that solves our customers’ most challenging problems.
Requirements
You possess a unique blend of big picture vision, technical savvy, and industry experience. You have at least five years of experience working as a product manager or customer success, working with engineering teams and driving whole-product strategy. Applied experience and exposure with the ecosystem in physical security, biometrics, identity amp; credential verification, video analytics, digital applications, and 3rd party integrated offerings is a plus. You have strong customer relationship skills, which enable you to understand customers’ needs and objectives and translate them into product features and requirements for solving complex business problems. You have a strong technical background, with the ability to discuss technical issues and identify solutions that satisfy product requirements. You have exceptionally strong analytical skills and a natural predisposition toward data-driven decision making.
In addition, you can demonstrate the following:
- A four-year degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or other related field, or equivalent combination of qualification and experience
- Strong track record of successfully bringing technical products to market and taking complete ownership from ideation thru introduction and market success.
- Sufficient understanding of the technology to be able to anticipate customer requirements, technical challenges, environmental constraints, and operational needs.
- Proficiency in translating technical concepts to business-oriented audiences and vice versa.
- Unwavering customer and end user empathy.
- Demonstrated ability to apply experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
- An infectious enthusiasm for the product and influence on the energy and pace around it.
- Active learning mentality and technology curiosity: understanding implications of new information for both current and future problems and decisions, embracing change, and understanding new concepts.