Technical Product Manager

$125,000 - $175,000/Yr

Volley Automation - South San Francisco, CA

Full-time - Senior

South San Francisco, CA

About the position

Volley Automation is seeking a Product / Program Manager to help unite all our ongoing product development under a single unified product strategy. This is a great opportunity for a Program Manager looking to transition into a Product Manager role. The successful candidate will manage our internal development to align with our technology roadmap and product sales initiatives that are managed by our CTO and Head of Product. You should also have experience collaborating with hardware and software engineers to be able to speak their language around features and timing. You will be partnering with Engineering Leaders to manage timelines, expectations, and the overall strategic development roadmap. You will be adept in gathering data from a variety of sources into a cohesive product roadmap and aligning the organizational resources to that strategy. This is a broad role with strategic input but involves significant individual contributor work. You must be ready to jump into a complex, evolving environment and prioritize efficiently. You should expect that you will be setting up new systems, pulling together data from a variety of sources, working cross-functionally between the Product, Sales, and Engineering teams to balance competing priorities focused on maximizing value delivered by the engineering roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Manage the lifecycle of complex cross-functional programs.
• Identify product opportunities that maximize value delivery to the various internal and external stakeholders.
• Act as a catalyst for faster business delivery, improving the correctness and accuracy of controls; simplifying or eliminating unnecessary processes.
• Create consensus, secure commitments, negotiate positive outcomes, drive team alignment, and deliver on objectives based on the defined success criteria.
• Solve problems and proactively identify and mitigate risks before they become roadblocks.
• Manage and prioritize the product backlog.
• Ensure engineering programs stay aligned with Volley Automation business objectives.
• Establish, maintain, and verify product requirements, launching and landing these requirements to external customers and stakeholders.
• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure teams are aligned with product deliverables.
• Manage the overall features and delivery schedule, proactively mitigating risks and keeping the scope of engineering efforts under control.
• Own program communications and accelerate progress by driving crisp and timely decisions, clearing blockers, and escalating issues in an appropriate and timely manner.
• Define showstoppers related to product quality, triage bugs, and ensure issues are resolved or mitigated in the right order.
• Ensure that prioritization frameworks for features are followed and provide feedback on their impact and effectiveness.
• Manage and reduce product level complexity through delivering minimum viable products, demonstrating them, and articulating their evolution.
• Own project status communications, providing clear and concise summaries for the projects to the leadership/management team.

Requirements

• 5+ years of demonstrated product management experience with a complex interleaved product portfolio.
• Demonstrated ability to define detailed technical requirements, user stories, and success criteria based on business requirements and overarching product strategies and customer outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to mitigate risks and help reduce a product's exposure to typical failure modes.
• Demonstrated ability to drive a product roadmap.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Executive level presentation skills.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent preferably in Architecture, engineering or related discipline.

Nice-to-haves

• Startup experience
• A background in construction, building design, urban planning, or architecture
• Having read The High Cost of Free Parking

Benefits

• Disability insurance
• Bereavement leave