JOB DESCRIPTION:
Wimba’s Product Management department is expanding and seeking an experienced Product Manager. This role will define requirements and manage the design/development of an innovative suite of synchronous and asynchronous collaborative software products for the educational market. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of the market’s needs and the ability to work cross-departmentally in order to transform those needs into tangible software solutions. This position reports to the Director of Product Management.
- Own and develop Market Requirements Documents for your product area
- Perform business analysis with subject matter experts, customers and via competitive reviews
- Communicate with internal departments to ensure all operational requirements are understood and met
- Lead working groups that translate market requirements into detailed product requirements
- Work with design resources to ensure user interface specifications meet customer needs
- Manage and maintain a strong client focus, via customer interviews and surveys, leading product advisory board sessions, and prioritization of client enhancement requests
- Be the focal point for other departments throughout the product lifecycle to ensure that all company functions have input to, and understanding of, the product scope, status and justifications for variances
- Assist throughout the development cycle, ensuring development receives timely answers to functional questions; documentation gets appropriate level of technical review; QA test plans meet the project requirements
- Evangelize new products within the company and train staff on new releases
- Assist in the design and ongoing improvement of internal product management processes
REQUIREMENTS
The ideal candidate will possess demonstrable experience in the following areas:
- 5+ years as a Product Manager (or comparable role) in a software development environment
- Strong experience documenting and communicating both high-level product plans and detailed software requirements, and working collaboratively with small teams to implement these features
- Experience working with geographically distributed teams
- Excellent oral and written communication ability
- Ability to influence without authority
- Conversant in engineering topics, preferably having some development experience
- Prior project management experience creating project plans, detailed schedules and performing risk analysis and mitigation
- Ability to juggle multiple projects and priorities
- Bachelor’s degree required, Masters degree desired
Highly Desired Skills/Experience
We are especially interested in candidates with specific domain knowledge in one or more of the following areas:
- Real-time collaboration/communication systems (instant messaging, audio, video, whiteboard, desktop sharing, etc.)
- Software product experience in general in the field of educational technology (software systems used by K12 or higher-ed institutions)
- Software accessibility best practices
- Documenting and translating API/SDK requirements
- Formal product/project management training in software development methodologies
ABOUT US
Wimba is a leading provider of collaborative software for distance and blended learning. The Wimba Collaboration Suite, recently awarded the 2009 “Best Education Solution” CODiE award by SIIA, enhances learning, improves outcomes and increases student retention. By combining interactive technologies such as voice, video, podcasting, instant messaging, application sharing, polling and whiteboarding, learning communities are empowered with a unique collaborative environment that fosters dynamic student-to-instructor, student-to-student, and instructor-to-instructor interaction. Our seamless integration with leading course management systems ensures that users have a simplified and familiar workflow. Wimba. People Teach People.
Wimba is a dynamic, entrepreneurial organization that is always looking for high caliber people. We offer competitive salaries, stock options and a full benefit package as well as provide a fun work environment!
Visit our web site for more information: www.wimba.com
To submit your resume, please email recruiting@wimba.com a copy of your Word or pdf resume.