Product Manager
ABL's Product Team is responsible for setting the direction and driving the development of our internal software systems used to rapidly scale our business and simplify processes to design, build, test, and launch rockets. In this role, you will work directly with software engineers, key stakeholders, and end users to synthesize diverse input streams and facilitate the full spectrum of tasks involved in building and supporting critical software.
Responsibilities:
- Formulate product strategy, vision, and roadmaps to meet strategic, financial, and technical goals
- Meet regularly with various business stakeholders and cross functional teams to identify their pain points and derive simple solutions to solve their issues
- Write clear and concise product requirements that capture the vision, goals, and key elements of new applications and features.
- Work with software engineers, product designers, and other product managers to create meaningful, powerful, and high quality solutions
- Provide project management skills to properly set and manage expectations and assure solution delivery
- Analyze the impact, usage, and adoption of features to confirm they had the right effect on the business, and if not, make corrective actions to ensure it meets the required success criteria
- Create and maintain help documentation to support and guide users on how to use our software effectively
- Prioritize a backlog of bugs and feature enhancements
Basic Qualifications:
- Entry Level <0 years of experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar discipline
Preferred Skills and Experience:
- A demonstrated track record of successful product execution and working on cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products
- Demonstrates both analytical and technical capability by collecting and analyzing data from a variety of sources to inform product decisions
- Strong problem solving skills with the ability to create original and creative solutions.
- Exhibit a bias towards action and experimentation
- Excellent written and verbal interpersonal skills, with an ability to connect with a wide range of team members and job functions across different levels of the organization
- Ability to drive results in a fast paced and challenging environment.
- Proven track record of leading/influencing cross functional groups, defining, documenting, and deploying process change and associated systems capabilities.
- Demonstrated ability to understand and discuss technical concepts, manage trade-offs, and evaluate new opportunities
- Able to create wireframes and storyboards using industry standard tools
- Proficient at effective datamodel design that both support technical implementation and business needs
- Proficient at writing SQL queries to analyze data, and create custom reports/dashboards if needed.
What We Look For:
- Critical thinking: ABL engineers understand the "why" behind all design decisions, operational events and test outcomes.
- Ability to deal with ambiguity: ABL engineers must be comfortable defining their own pathway to an objective.
- End-to-end ownership: projects are delivered fully complete and ready for flight; there is no one to pick up the slack of partially complete work.
