Product Manager
Product Management Vimercate, Italy
About Liferay
Liferay is a uniquely profitable B2B enterprise software company with 1,000+ fiery-eyed employees all across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. As a renowned provider of enterprise open source technologies, we have been recognized by Gartner for empowering businesses around the world to solve complex digital challenges. Liferay’s all-in-one platform unites Liferay DXP with our cloud platform capabilities, built-in analytics, and commerce functionality, reducing time to market and accelerating innovation. Our customer roster includes global companies such as Airbus, US Bank, Honda, and Desjardins.
But we don’t just make awesome software, we are also fueled by a greater-than-profit vision. By building a vibrant business, making technology useful, and investing in communities, we make it possible for people to reach their full potential to serve others. This commitment extends beyond our product; Liferay donates 10% of our profits to charities around the world. Oh, we’re also self-funded which gives us the freedom to work on whatever we think brings the most value to customers and communities in the long run!
About You and this Role
As a Product Manager at Liferay, you are the voice of our customers. Your responsibilities extend from increasing the profitability and market fit of one of Liferay’s products. We are looking for an experienced and passionate product manager to join our e-commerce team that can help us work on the future of digital experience.
You will help build products from existing ideas, and help develop new ideas based on your industry experience and your contact with customers and prospects. You must have a unique blend of technical and business savvy, a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality. You must be comfortable working on a complex enterprise platform where collaboration between product development teams is essential to deliver innovative solutions for the market.
You must be able to communicate with all members within a product development team. You will work with your product line manager to establish the goals and priorities for the product offering. Work with your Product owners to research and refine the right solutions You will work with business units like Support, Product Marketing and Enablement, helping them understand the product positioning, benefits, and target customers. You will also serve as the internal and external evangelist for your product offering, directly working with the customer success team and key customers and partners.
Key Objectives
- Work with the Lead Product Manager to develop and communicate the program vision and roadmap to deliver innovative components that align with the strategy.
- Drive value increment objectives and release content via prioritized features and capabilities.
- Work with Product Owners, UX and Engineering to:
- Develop your components and features from product hypothesis to launch and iteration.
- Enable high-quality, timely execution of product launches.
- Define and analyze metrics to measure the success of your components.
- Engage with customers to uncover new business opportunities that improve our product and solve the customer pain points.
- Work cross-functionally with other product managers, business analysts, tech leads, and department heads to harmonize components across a product.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant experience.
- 2 years minimum product management experience and 5+ years experience overall in software space/product.
- Commerce - Required experience: Previous experience with e-commerce platforms, OMS or PIM solutions (B2B commerce experience is a plus)
- Proven track record of leading through influence and vision.
- Understands and exhibits the importance of being a team player.
- Flexible and adaptable to change.
- Possess a strong knowledge of technical concepts and are very comfortable working with engineers.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- This position requires travel to customer and non-customer sites.
- Ability to speak and write English fluently.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building web/digital products is a plus.
What We Offer
- Salary package w/ competitive benefits according to qualifications and experience
- Opportunities to take responsibility, grow professionally, and Stay Nerdy
- A positive and collaborative work culture
Equal Opportunities Employer - Statement
Liferay is committed to the equal treatment of all candidates, customers and employees and to fostering a culture of dignity at work. Our operating procedure provides for equal opportunities in recruitment and employment with the aim to eliminate discrimination against any job applicant or employee on the basis of race, age, sexual orientation, gender, religion or beliefs, marital or civil partnerships status, family or dependency status, disability, pregnancy and maternity or membership of a traveling community.