Product Manager: Operations Efficiency

The Operations Efficiency Product Manager represents the voice of the customer and sales in the development process, filling a critical role between the customers, sales, and development teams.   The Product Manager advocates for efficiency in the development process while still delivering the critical needs and value propositions for customers and sales teams.

The Operations Efficiency Product Manager must become familiar with the market positioning of the businesses’ products and an associated training needs for the businesses’ target customers and markets. They will be responsible for building a solutions roadmap for a unified production capability that streamlines imagery, lidar and data analysis product creation for the Energy, Defense and Civilian Government markets.  They will be responsible for inspiring and aligning development teams, answering questions such as: what are we doing? why are we doing it? what’s the impact for the business?  The Operations Efficiency PM will specialize in understanding and capturing the voice of internal customers who are leveraging the unified production systems to deliver value for the business.  This includes understanding how data products work together, best practices across centers of excellence, a wide range of tool capabilities and the long term vision of the operations leadership.

Work Setting:

• Location: NV5 Geospatial Regional offices, or work from home considered
• Ability to work core hours in Pacific or Mountain Time Zones
• This role will require approximately one week of travel every quarter

NV5 is a global technology solutions and consulting services company with a workforce of over 4,500 professionals in more than 100 offices worldwide.  NV5’s continued growth has been spurred through strategic investments in firms with unique capabilities to help current and future customers solve the world’s toughest problems.  The NV5 family brings together talent across a wide range of markets and fields, including Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors, Architects, Photogrammetrists, GIS Professionals, Software Developers, IT, Project Management Professionals, and more.

At NV5 Geospatial, we are a collaboration of intelligent, innovative thinkers who care for each other, our communities, and the environment.  We value both heart and head, the diversity of our people, and their experiences because that is how we continue to grow as leaders in our industry and expand our individual and collective potential.

• Communicates with customers, new prospects and team to define workflows for specific product implementation
• Develops and champions product vision, product strategy and roadmap for the internal product lines in support of business goals
• Working with business leadership, owns product roadmap to meet market requirements in support of product strategy by considering position in life cycle, product profitability, client satisfaction and sales success rate
• Develops and maintains the product backlog in Jira
• Communicates product vision to Sales and business leadership as necessary
• Collaborates with Engineering Leadership and Engineering Product Lead and any 3rd party partner development teams in the development of product plans, schedules, functional specifications, etc. to ensure the product meets customer/market needs
• Works with Marketing Communications and Sales to develop and execute product marketing plans for product line
• Participates in customer visits, trade shows, seminars and other marketing events
  • This role will require approximately one week of travel every quarter
  • Travel is needed in an as required basis to the NGA, as a part of customer requirements
  • Travel is not limited to the NGA and may require applicant to travel to other customer locations as required
• Evaluates ideas for new products, investigates market viability and effect on market of present products, and recommends economically attractive products
• Gathers market intelligence so that market opportunities may be capitalized on as they occur and the effects of competitive activity are minimized
• Supports direct and in-direct sales networks with internal product training, and other items, as needed
• Representation of current product positioning in the Intelligence Community as a Market:
  • Where are Licenses being actively used today across the IC? 
  • What is the role of the people? 
  • What do they actually DO with the product on a daily basis?

Required Skills

• Bachelors Degree in Business, Geography, Civil Engineering, Software Engineering or equivalent
• Minimum 2-4 years experience in a product owner or product management role
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to adapt style to intended audience
• Demonstrated experience working in an agile development environment
• Demonstrated experience managing project to budget and schedule constraints

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with spatial data including raster, vector and 3D point clouds
• Ability to work core hours in Pacific or Mountain Time Zones
• Demonstrated experience leading software development for internal users
• Experience using Jira to manage a team’s backlog

Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check and drug screening.

NV5 offers competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, life insurance, FTO, 401(k) and professional development/advancement opportunities.

NV5 provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. NV5 complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

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