Product Manager

Product Manager

Geotab® is a global leader in IoT and connected transportation and certified "Great Place to Work™." We are a company of diverse and talented individuals who work together to help businesses grow and succeed, and increase the safety and sustainability of our communities.

Geotab is advancing security, connecting commercial vehicles to the internet and providing web-based analytics to help customers better manage their fleets. Geotab's open platform and Geotab Marketplace®, offering hundreds of third-party solution options, allows both small and large businesses to automate operations by integrating vehicle data with their other data assets. Processing billions of data points a day, Geotab leverages data analytics and machine learning to improve productivity, optimize fleets through the reduction of fuel consumption, enhance driver safety and achieve strong compliance to regulatory changes.

Our team is growing and we're looking for people who follow their passion, think differently and want to make an impact. Ours is a fast paced, ever changing environment. Geotabbers accept that challenge and are willing to take on new tasks and activities - ones that may not always be described in the initial job description. Join us for a fulfilling career with opportunities to innovate, great benefits, and our fun and inclusive work culture.

What You'll Do

As a Product Manager your key area of responsibility will be directing product development from conception to launch, and discovering, developing and carefully cultivating new products and product enhancements that support Geotab's business models and continued growth. You will need to work closely with senior members of the team and product leadership to provide input on the long term vision of the product.

To be successful in this role you will be a self starter, resourceful with strong analytical skills. In addition, the successful candidate will have reliable problem solving skills, creativity, communication and acute perception.

How You'll Make An Impact

• Understand the customer and its associated market.
• Perform customer discovery interviews with prospective and existing customers and partners to identify product gaps and generate news ideas for continuous value add for existing customers, grow market share for new customers and to overall improve Geotab's customer experience.
• Leverage various research methodologies and customer inputs to identify common patterns, pain points, problems to be solved/jobs to be done and use this to identify relevant solution opportunities/product efforts.
• Develop a product roadmap and align internal stakeholders to the developed roadmap strategy.
• Work closely with senior members of the team and product leadership to provide input on the long term vision of the product.
• Work with cross functional teams (Design, Engineering, Marketing, Support and others) to build and execute the product development and go to market strategy for key roadmap deliverables.
• Prioritize building what matters most by balancing short term sales targets with long term strategic investments for the business.
• Collaboratively define and drive reporting and monitoring mechanisms against set product outcomes and use them as a tool to measure continued success of product efforts (both qualitative and quantitative).
• Participate in win-loss interviews and analysis; identify hard sales blockers and soft sales objections.
• Clearly communicate the Why for every product effort and educate other stakeholders on the problems to be solved, business objectives, etc. Leverage this in collaboration with UX designers, developers, data scientists and other stakeholders.
• Translate the customer needs into user stories, feature epics and work to be done to bring the product effort to life.
• Prioritize epics relative to technical debt and other company product investments.
• Help improve the Product Management practice at Geotab.

What You'll Bring To This Role

3-5 years experience in product management and/or customer discovery or related field. Experience in a SaaS environment is an asset. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Strong team player with the ability to engage with all levels of the organization. Well-defined sense of diplomacy, including solid negotiation, conflict resolution, and relationship management skills. Must stay relevant to technology and should have the flexibility to adapt to the growing technology and market demands. Demonstrated experience and strong understanding of user engagement metrics and product KPIs to drive data-informed decision-making and enhance product performance. Strong organizational skills to be able to manage products through discovery to launch and continuous review.

If you got this far, we hope you're feeling excited about this role! Even if you don't feel you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. Please note: Geotab does not accept agency resumes and is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. Please do not forward resumes to Geotab employees.