Product Manager, 3D Design Software – MachineBuilder

As a Product Manager, 3D Design Software - MachineBuilder at Vention…

You will interface with clients to capture emerging needs, drive respective software development teams and support sales & marketing for successful product launches. Leveraging your product management expertise, you will be uniquely positioned to guide architectural choices, drive effective prioritization of our effort and own the product roadmap. More specifically, your role will include the following responsibilities

Vention MachineBuilder is the fastest and easiest way to design and order factory equipment.  You can create automated equipment, robot cells and tooling in minutes with the only CAD software built exclusively for the factory floor.

What You'll Do:

Product management

• Conduct client interviews to understand feature opportunities/gap
• Conduct benchmarking of competitor's product and pricing
• Conduct analysis to inform new product specifications and evaluate performance of existing products
• Scope and maintain the product roadmap
• Prepare detailed brief for new software/features, including business logic
• Define pricing for monetized products and forecast revenue potential
• Lead preparation for Quarterly Product Review
• Develop sales enablement material and train various go-to market teams (Account Executives, Application Engineers, Customer Success, etc.)
• Work closely with the marketing team to provide input for product launch campaigns

Product ownership

• Organize and prioritize ticket backlog
• Breakdown product briefs for new product/feature in sequenced ticket for efficient execution
• Prepare and host sprint kick-off, ensuring software team support the scope and can successfully define the "how"
• Ensure deadline compliance for each feature/product and measure team performance 
• Conduct business QA on new products/features to ensure the user experience contribute to elevating the Vention platform
• Work with software team and HR to ensure teams are properly staffed with expertise required to deliver the annual roadmap
• Maintain dev-team happiness by scheduling period of technical debt / bug elimination (or allow some refactoring as part of new feature development)