Senior Product Manager

SAE Industry Technologies Consortia (ITC), Performance Review Institute (PRI) and SAE International (SAE), deliver shared solutions to industry’s common challenges.

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The Senior Product Manager leads and and oversees numerous products within SAE’s industry-centered professional development portfolio of training courses, curricula, and services. As product owner, they will monitor and manage product financial success by collaborating with sales and marketing teams to articulate product messaging, positioning, promotion, and sales.

The successful candidate possesses a strong understanding of product management practices, tools, and methods, including market research, business case development, financial modeling, and lifecycle management. Knowledge of the mobility industry and workforce development is essential for this role. The Senior Product Manager will have a passion for representing the voice of customers, learners and professionals served with SAE’s robust portfolio of learning solutions.

• Working with industry representatives, market research, stakeholders, and/or instructional designers,identifyindustry skills gaps, certification needs, and related problems to workforce development. Align and propose solutions, develop business cases and financial analyses, andparticipatein cross-functional road map prioritization activities. Convene and lead advisory panels,locating and engaging stakeholders and/or subject matter experts to survey, interview, develop, and deliver content via available delivery modalities. Ensure the vision of the product is executed in product delivery and with inappropriate time frames.
  
  In concert with the product group Director, drive the strategic direction of the product portfolio and bechiefly responsible for implementation of the strategy to drive revenue, margin, and growth goals.

• Guides successful tradeoffs that affect cost, schedule, users, and how well the product works throughout the product life cycle.

• Provides product leadership from introduction through obsolescence, evaluates new technologies, articulates issues, and makes clear recommendations.

• Makes product positioning and messaging recommendations and ensures they are communicated to sales and marketing counterparts.

• Drives andparticipatesin efficacy research toidentifyobstacles, improve ease-of-use and customer satisfaction. Articulates research findings to management in order toimpactfuture product direction.

• Creates and delivers formal presentations and conducts group discussions on products for a broad range of audiences.

• Continually reviews product usage data andmaintainsan ongoing dialog with customers and internal stakeholders, particularly sales, on trends,risksand opportunities.

• Contributing to the achievement of SAE’s organizational goals

• As needed, act as a mentor to product managers and, in particular, enhance their familiarity with product management best practices and elevate their focus from the tactical to a more strategic framework.

• Additionalprojects as assigned

• Bachelor’s degreein science, technology, engineering, media,STEMor related field

• 6+ years of experience in product management and development or related role

• P&L responsibility

• Demonstrated experience with new product development processes and life cycle maintenance

• Understanding of talent and/or workforce development landscape and/or curriculum development

• Expertiseusing quantitative and qualitative data to lead product management activities

• Experience collecting voice of customer inputs and developing relationships with industry stakeholders

• Certification in Product Managementrequiredwithin 6 months, if absent

• Master’s…