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Next Step Systems
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Industry:
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Technology Consulting
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Product Management
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Location:
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Philadelphia, PA
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Position Level:
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Experienced
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Position Type:
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Full Time
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Salary:
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$75 - 100K
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$78-$95K
Lead efforts to improve existing services for hosting solutions, and be a resource for sales support. Build products from existing ideas, and help to develop new ideas based on your industry experience and your contact with customers and prospects. Must possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy; a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality. Must enjoy spending time in the market to understand their problems, and find innovative solutions.
Must be able to communicate with all areas of the company. Work with an engineering counterpart to define product release requirements. Work with marketing communications to define the go-to-market strategy, helping them understand the product positioning, key benefits, and target customer. Serve as the internal and external spokesperson for your product offering, occasionally working with the sales channel and key customers.
Responsibilities:
- Managing the product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities for server and application services with experience in automation
-Specify market requirements for current and future products by conducting market research supported by on-going visits to customers and non-customers
-Driving a solution set across development teams (primarily Development/Engineering, and Marketing Communications) through market requirements, product contract, and positioning
-Analyzing potential partner relationships for the product gaps
-Lead efforts to improve revenue and profits or reduce costs associated with existing and application services
-Participate in various Sales Support activities, including: product and services training, seminars and documentation, and pre and post sales customer visits
-Maintain and provide content for product related collateral and sales tools
-Track and maintain performance metrics for new product and service launches
-Develop and maintain channel, delivery, and technology partner relationships
-Approximately 25%-35% Travel Required
Qualifications:
-College Degree preferred but will consider applicants with equivalent work-related experience with a minimum educational requirement of a H.S. Diploma or GED equivalent; BachelorCBCBCBCBs Degree or equivalent work experience required
-5 to 10 years experience in product development and lifecycle maintenance, sales support, or technical services role
-Track record in hosting, data center outsourcing, messaging platforms such as Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes or similar technologies (MCTS, MCITP)
-Understanding of product differentiation and competitive strategy techniques
-Possess the ability to work with customers and vendors at both a business & technical level
-Extensive knowledge of solution engineering and design techniques as well as enterprise hosting products, virtualization technologies, and services is required
-Excellent aptitude for financial information and analysis
-Strong Leadership skills and the ability to effectively supervise others workload
-Experience in web services and application infrastructure design (n-tier, MCSE, MCSD)
-Experience in system (Microsoft and/or UNIX), tape backup, and storage administration
-Knowledge of WAN/LAN architectures, systems & protocols.
-High-level technical knowledge and experience with enterprise monitoring and management products and architecture
-Strong speaking and presentation skills
-Strong technical knowledge and experience with systems and application security practices
-Strong project management, time management, and organizational skills
-Ability to effectively work in a team environment as well as independently
Contact information:
Mike Stapinski
jobs@nextstepsystems.com
Next Step Systems
www.nextstepsystems.com
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Contact:
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Mike Stapinski
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630-428-0600
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jobs@nextstepsystems.com
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Next Step Systems
Next Step Systems is a recruiting firm specializing in permanent employment of Information Technology (IT) Professionals. We work with candidates and jobs at all levels. We are currently working on 200+ full-time technical positions nationally. We're a Chicago based Technical Employment Service that has computer job openings across the country.
Here is a partial list of recent positions and titles:
Programmer Developer
Business/Systems Analyst
Quality Assurance
Database Administrator
Datawarehouse
Data Modeling
LAN, WAN and SAN Administrator
Network Engineer
Systems Support
Technical Sales
Sales Support Engineer
Account Manager
Project Leader
Manager
Director
VP
CTO
CIO
If you are on the job market and have technical or computer skills, please send your resume with salary expectations to jobs@nextstepsystems.com.
We are Information Technology recruiting specialists, providing a personalized service to fit the changing needs of our job seeker clients and our employer clients. From technical jobs in Chicago to network jobs in Philadelphia and Denver, we have been successful. Visit us on the web at http://www.nextstepsystems.com.
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