Associate Product Manager - Consoles

An empty treadmill isn't compelling, but once someone steps on it, the stories are limitless. Our goal is to connect people emotionally to their fitness journey. We are a global team coming from different cultures and backgrounds with a shared passion to achieve and live our mission of inspiring healthier lives.
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This position is primarily responsible for managing the console software initiatives, roadmap and priorities. This role is market-facing and success will require a deep understanding of market landscape, drive market research to validate product direction and collaborate with cross-functional teams to execute on product definition. Working as an integral part of a cross-functional team working closely with other product management colleagues, engineers, and our user experience / interface team.
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Drive planning and roadmap refinement sessions with business and engineering teams
• For individual projects, work collaboratively with product managers to link positioning to hardware and software feature set
• Facilitate customer-based market research to validate requirements
• Collaborate with user experience team on software requirements and general experience expectations per market research
• Collaborate with engineering team to manage and prioritize requests and enhancements
• Regularly communicate with global marketing teams on roadmap
• For specific projects, provide global marketing teams product strategy information to properly launch to the market including competitive analysis, research/insights, positioning, target markets, and feature/benefit details
• Work with sales enablement and marketing to effectively train the sales force on console technologies
• Work with service support teams on training, documentation and troubleshooting procedures
• Work with software team to manage major software bugs or failures, act as lead for organizing and driving corrective action, and communication to the service, sales, customer and internal stakeholders
• Monitor and report major trends and updates in digital fitness
• Monitor and report out on console analytics to drive insights for new feature development

QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in traditional Product Management and/or Engineering working with technology related products
• Familiarity with agile methodologies and design sprints desired
• Experience developing and defining product roadmaps
• Experience writing user stories
• Experience in leading cross-functional teams.
• Ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously.
• Willingness to travel up to 5% of the time, including international travel.
• Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project).

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