Product Manager News-On-Demand

This position will manage the News and Analytics portion of the software. This position will identify how the industry is managing and measuring news will correlate to how Vocus’ measurement tools adapt and grow. Understanding how social media plays into this will be important as well. A strong understanding of how search is utilized in search engines (Google, Yahoo!, AOL, Ask.com, etc.) and news content aggregators (Factiva, Lexis, Yahoo! News, Google News, etc.).

Responsibilities

Product Lifecycle Process

Analyzing competitor offerings and market trends to identify feature differences and determining an appropriate course of action
Provides leadership to resolve product, quality or customer satisfaction problems
Able to analyze items of which are critical in nature and require immediate attention
Identifies and gathers requirements for partnerships with 3rd parties
Works closely with the R&D guiding development of product functional specifications for product components
Works closely with Support Services to identify support implications and identifying product issues for resolution in future editions
Manage product advisory groups in proposing product enhancements

Be the voice of the customer: understand usage of software through prospects and customers
Create personas to ensure that we understand the users of the product
Maintain an active role in industry groups and create relationships with key industry contacts

Sales Process

Publishing competitive briefings and guidelines on how to compete with specific competitors to the sales force
Release management and communications to sales teams
Participate in sales engagements (onsite and via web demos)
Analyzing customer wins and losses to determine implications for product enhancements
Identify and manage customers as part of Limited Availability programs
Manage sales team demo setups

Requirements

The ideal candidate will have industry experience in the fields of search and/or news aggregation and demonstrated success with at least 3+ years as a software product manager or in a similar role. The successful candidate will possess the following:

A Bachelors degree with a minimum of 7+ year’s experience.

Direct product management experience or high-degree of knowledge with news aggregation products and/or internet search tools.

Strong interpersonal skills