Product Manager - Aurora, Canada - JANA Corporation

JANA Corporation

Verified Company

Aurora, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

JANA has a progressive culture of personal and professional growth.

With a vested interest in each employee's professional growth and continuous improvement as an individual, JANA supports professional development, continuous education, industry participation and technical accreditations.

Other Perks that come with joining JANA's Team include:

Highenergy

Collaborative Environment:
JANA combines the energy of a start-up software organization with the discipline of a precision engineering firm.

Regular Social Events: Join the entire JANA Team for fun Social Events like our Weekly Kahoot and Beer Club, Annual Birthday Bonspiel, Ice Cream Parties, Holiday events, Cinco de Mayoeven an Easter Egg Hunt
BestinClass Benefits: JANA offers all employees a comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Disability coverage, as well as our great Wellness Benefit
Giving Back: JANA is dedicated to giving back to our community in various ways. Every year we hold an annual food drive for the Aurora Foodbank and have become one of their top contributors
JANA promotes a healthy worklife balance: Through our comprehensive vacation program, floater days, and a hybrid work environment (combination of inoffice and workfromhome), JANA employees are able to take time to rest and rejuvenate

Members of JANA's Product Team, under the direction of the Head of Product and in heavy collaboration with JANA's Market Managers, JANA's Product Managers own JANA's sustainability.

Product Managers are single-threaded leaders responsible for a single product in a single market segment.

Product Managers are ultimately responsible for the P&L of their product, considering the operational needs of our Project Delivery teams and owning the execution of product roadmaps.

Product Managers drive the execution of all product lifecycle processes for their product - including product research, market research, competitive analysis, planning, positioning, roadmap development, requirements development, and product launch - in support of JANA's overall strategy and goals.

Product Managers must work together with Market Managers to ensure our products are attractive and easy to use, that our clients enjoy engaging with our products, and that we have embedded our clients' jobs-to-be-done into every aspect of our products.

Product Managers set the strategy for the Whole Product Offering, which augments the core product with additional elements required for the customer to have a compelling reason to buy.

Responsibilities:

Leverages expertise in the Jobs to Be Done theory to understand JANA's clients' needs better than JANA's clients understand their needs
Translates business strategy into Whole Product strategy
Plans and carries out launches for Whole Product Offerings
Manages product profitability and commercial success
Leads the vision, roadmap, and prioritization of features, including requirements gathering, in partnership with Market Managers, Account Managers and JANA's Client Experience Team
Analyzes gaps in current product capabilities and assists Product and Project teams with gap prioritization
Facilitates discussions with stakeholders through discovery sessions and user interviews to understand clients' current state business processes
Brings a customercentric view to the curation and prioritization of product features
Provides Marketing with insights on key differentiators and messaging
Translates and documents feature definition and epics into detailed user stories with tangible/meaningful acceptance criteria and requirements for design and implementation
Owns the development and maintenance of user training materials
Creates product strategy documents, analyzing client needs and current market trends, to describe business cases, highlevel use cases, technical requirements, revenue, and ROI
Assesses current competitor offerings, seeking opportunities for differentiation

Required Skills & Experience

Undergraduate degree in Business or a STEM field
3+ years in a Technology organization
Expert knowledge of the Jobs to Be Done theory
Strategic thinker, with proven ability to document and communicate product strategies and recommendations to senior leadership
Ability to influence crossfunctional teams without formal authority
Must be able to travel in the US and Canada up to 20% of the time