Associate Product Manager

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Job Description Summary:

The Associate Product Manager is responsible for assisting with product management, project management, and marketing for selected products. This includes participating in product roadmap discussions, features, market research, technical requirement gathering, product positioning, cross-functional operation management, and project management. The Associate Product Manager drafts targeted user stories, gathers requirements, manages releases and solves problems, working closely with Product Managers, Engineering, Support, and Sales to deliver winning products. Along with their peers, they will ensure that the product, operation, and marketing efforts support the overall business strategy and goals.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assist in the identification of new opportunities and features based on customer feedback, market research, and product strategy
• Specific project and operation management in support of the product
• Identifies and documents trends in data
• Performs targeted competitive and data analysis
• Participates in product roadmap discussions
• Works cross-functionally with engineering, marketing, support, and sales. 
• Product, project, and go to market enablement
• Support the roadmap
• Manage product decisions based on engineering tradeoffs and customer feedback, while helping support development of business cases to drive proposed investment priorities
• Assist in briefing internal sales force and business partners on product releases, lifecycle, and policies

Required Qualifications:

• At least 2 years of Product Management experience with data related enterprise software experience preferred
• Demonstrated ability to understand and learn technical details related to data products
• Demonstrated ability to create and build strong working relationships with peer stakeholders internally
• Demonstrated project management and organization skills
• Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills to deal professionally with all types of people—a team player with a client-centric attitude
• Outstanding attention to detail and quality conscious
• Demonstrated ability to identify and solve problems independently
• Excellent research and prioritization skills
• Mainframe data understanding is a plus

Travel/Other Requirements:

10% travel required

Willingness to be flexible regarding working hours to support client meetings and cross-functional projects.

Information Security:

Information security is everyone’s responsibility.  A fundamental principle of information security at Rocket Software is that all individuals in the organization have a responsibility for the security and protection of company information and IT Resources over which they have control, according to their role.

Diversity, Inclusion & Equity:

At Rocket we are committed to an inclusive workplace environment, where every Rocketeer can thrive by bringing their full selves to work. Being a Rocketeer means you are part of our movement to continually drive inclusivity, diversity and equity in our workforce.

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Rocket Software Inc. is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Rocket Software Inc. is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

Rocket is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you need special assistance or an accommodation while seeking employment, please call: 781-577-4321 or send an email to [email protected]. We will make a determination on your request for reasonable accommodation on a case-by-case basis.

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!