Experienced Product Manager

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As a member of global Product Management team at ESET headquarters, you will utilize your previous experience to shape the future of ESET security products and services for business customers around the world, including some of the most famous corporations (airlines, banks, car manufacturers and others).

As the Product Manager, you will not only lead a critical products, services and processes, but also have a remarkable chance to showcase your skills to our top management. This role offers more than just a job; it's an opportunity to strategically shape the future of our company, particularly in the crucial B2B segment. Join us and be at the forefront of innovation, making a significant impact on cybersecurity!

Within your role, you will constantly think how to solve market or technical problems in the assigned area of product during all stages of product life cycle. Your job will include quantitative and qualitative market and customer research to perform independent opportunity assessment. You will act as a customer advocate, putting customer needs first and working to deliver solutions deemed to be best for customer.
 
You will be fully responsible for defining the product vision, goals, strategy and roadmap of specific set of security products or services in the context of overall company strategy and vision. You will be expected to actively lead discussions and cooperation with internal experts in their respective fields from Product Management, development, interaction design, marketing, sales, and other supporting teams as well as external experts (consultants, analysts, etc.).
 
You will by reaching out to technical people in charge of security within the organization - to gather and understand their specific problems and needs. Then, your focus will be put into transferring gathered market knowledge into structured and prioritized business and product requirements with one goal that you should keep in mind all the time - to assure success and competitiveness of the product on the security market. You will be fully responsible for creation, maintenance and prioritization of product backlog of business and technical requirements for development teams considering market needs and companywide business strategies.
 
You will be co-responsible for commercial success of specific product and services, and your role will be to execute strategic, operative and technical product life-cycle activities leading to that success.
 
You will autonomously manage all stages of product life cycle of selected products, services, and accompanying processes in accordance to corporate, portfolio and product strategies and goals.
 
Additionally, your responsibility will be to present core values and benefits of specific product or release to internal teams, business partners or business end customers. You will perform regular evaluation of product success on the market and you will define specific product goals, KPIs and feature improvements.

Responsibilities:

• Develop own market knowledge by monitoring relevant markets, technological trends and business models. Execute ongoing user research to build own market knowledge. Identify and articulate unresolved market problems. Perform an independent opportunity assessment.
• Define goals and strategies for assigned products and services. Define formalized business and product requirements and communicate and maintain them to the rest of the organization and external stakeholders.
• Expand the product knowledge including the technical aspects of individual features of products.
• Be responsible for the complete lifecycle of a product or family of products assigned.
• Drive cooperation on achieving product targets with other product managers as well as with other relevant teams and other key stakeholders across the company.
• Adhere to Product Management processes and frameworks. Participate in the preparation of materials and inputs for Product Management initiatives and activities.
• Maintain and update product roadmaps. Create and maintain product and service documentation (e.g., product bulletins).
• Define a portfolio product strategy, combining various types of applications and systems, possibly serving various customer types
• Approve product positioning
• Participate in the preparation of materials for internal product management processes and activities.
• Participate in the optimization and improvement of the quality of processes impacting cross-team collaboration on products and services.
• Propose optimizations of existing processes and systems and be actively involved in their implementation.

Requirements and skills:

• Previous working experience in IT/technology/software company is required; ideally at least 3 years of experience as a technology
• Product Manager or a similar (product related) role Business customer orientation and proven ability to properly understand business customer needs is required
• Strong communication and presentation skills to various audiences in English is required
• Extensive experience with working in a team
• Previous Product Management job related to cybersecurity is a significant advantage
• Previous experience in Business-to-Business is an advantage
• Previous working experience with administration of enterprise network or endpoint security is an advantage
• Dedication, excellent attitude towards the goals, passion about the product and its broader context are key values of the suitable candidate
• Ability to manage strategic and operational challenges

Benefits:

• Support in personal and professional development - opportunities to attend various trainings, courses, conferences or meetups
• Attractive financial bonus paid twice a year based on your performance
• Financial support in case of life milestones (wedding, childbirth)
• Complementary retirement savings contributions
• Fully covered 170 CZK/per day meal vouchers
• Transportation benefit
• Refer a friend" benefit - the opportunity to receive a financial bonus when referring a friend for an open vacancy
• Available home-office or remore work
• Fully-paid 3 sickdays
• Mind’n’Soul Program - free helpline and counselling in personal and professional development
• Sport activities support
• Fresh fruit, tea, coffee, non-alcoholic beverages - you can find them all in every kitchen
• Casual, friendly, open culture with no dress code
• Participating in company events
• Opportunity to use company common areas (terrace, relax zone, library) for a chill time and meetings with colleagues
• Volunteering and opportunity to participate in various CSR activities
• Loyalty program - extra vacation days and financial bonus after working at ESET for 5 and more years