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Location: Boulder, CO - USA
Company: Webroot Software
Experience: Executive
Highest Level of Education: MBA



Job Responsibilities
Manage a team of Product Managers. Develop new products. Drive incremental revenue from existing products. maintain market competitiveness in our new products. Monitor the competition and compeittive environment. present to and work with press, analysts, partners, customers, retailers, vendors.
Job Requirements
MBA preferred. It's hard to get into it, but it is fun if you are good. better programs help, or work your way up from within a company. typically Marketing Major with anEngineering background
Uppers
Owning a product being at the center of an organization. good pay.
Downers
Long hours, big responsibility, working a tradeshow.
Lifestyle
60-80 hours a week, moderate travel, casual dress unless onsite with clients.
Compensation
$110base 20% bonus stock options.
Advice to Jobseekers
Find internal coaches and champions, it isn't about cooming up with gret ideas but filtering and managing them.

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