Job Responsibilities
- Manage cross-functional team comprised of engineering,
marketing, services, finance, manufacturing and supply-chain for
meeting product specific requirements for a product-line - 4-
5hrs/week.
- Define Market Requirement (MRD) based on customer needs,
competition, and market analysis, and author Product Requirement
Document (PRD) for the managed product-line. 10-15 hrs/week.
- Support field sales by creating collateral such as solutions
proposal and deal pricing through margin analysis and customer
visits, and answering feature requests from the field etc - 20
hrs/week
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Job Requirements
No formal education required other than a undergraduate or a
post graduate degree in engineering. MBA with general management
focus is preferred. Enginnerring background in hardware or
software in the product/company specific technology is a big
plus. Prior customer facing experience as a Field
engineer/technical marketing engineer is a plus too.
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Uppers
- Get to work on all aspects of a product - good breadth in technology and
processes.
- Able to influence the product strategy and direction.
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Downers
- No authority on the people I work with. Have to relie on my
power to influence.
- No authority on setting R&D bugdets reduces ability to get
what I want.
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Lifestyle
80 % time spent on location. 20% in travel to customers/conferences/expos.
50% of the onlocation time spent in meetings.
Dress code is casual.
Work day is quite busy - multitasking ability is a must.
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Compensation
Base - $120K/yr
Bonus - up to 15% of base.
Stock options - 10K
Full benefits - 401 (K) company contribution up to $2K/yr. Full
medical and dental and life insurance.
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Advice to Jobseekers
Job outlook is good - engineering jobs might be outsourced but
Product Management jobs will stay here in the USA. Engineers
planning to move to Product Management should try to get
understanding of breadth of technology and customer facing
experience. Better you are with dealing with customer along with
a good technical understanding of the product better you would
be as a PM.
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