Director, Product

Company: Powerplan
Location: Atlanta
Posted on: February 25, 2021

Job Description:

Do you thrive on a steady diet of challenges that demand smart, creative solutions? Does the idea of working with leading edge technologies, and using them to transform the way companies do business, make your heart race just a few beats faster? Join the club. At PowerPlan, you'll find more than 300 people who share your passion. We're on a mission to bring clarity and confidence to our customers, and we have a lot fun along the way. Is PowerPlan the right opportunity for you? PowerPlan is an established company with a deep customer base across a wide range of industries and a proven track record of profitability. Our rapid growth has earned us a spot on the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing companies in America three years in a row.-- What makes PowerPlan unique?--

• What We Believe: We believe in customer success, collaboration, honesty and respect for all.
• Compensation and Benefits: We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits.
• Continuing Education: Our training and mentoring programs will help you develop the skills you need today and in the future.
• Career Advancement: You'll be encouraged to take on new challenges and new responsibilities to advance your career.
• Fun Events: You'll have many opportunities to socialize with your teammates throughout the year, including monthly socials, summer picnics and holiday parties.
• Charitable Giving: --Over the years we've partnered with Toys for Tots, Habitat for Humanity, Junior Achievement, The Humane Society and many other organizations, making it easy for our employees to give back to the community.
• Open Door Policy: Your voice matters. We maintain an environment that fosters trust, innovative thinking and creativity. Posted Date 3 days ago (9/16/2020 3:57 PM) Job ID 2020-1433 # of Openings 1 Category Product Overview This is a great time to join the PowerPlan Product team! Our enterprise-class suite of financial and asset management software products are used by hundreds of companies throughout the US and around the world. Building on our past successes and industry-leading position, we are investing in the redesign and redevelopment of our products using the latest design approaches and software technologies. As a critical member of our growing team, you will be well positioned to make a real impact and help to shape the future of our products. The Fixed Asset Product Director is a key member of the Product Management leadership team and the driving force behind PowerPlan's strategy and execution for our accounting products. Responsibilities include owning the vision and multi-year roadmap, discovering and validating market dynamics to drive strategy, leading a Fixed Asset cross-departmental leadership team, and providing leadership mentoring and coaching to direct reports. We are looking for a roll-up-the-sleeves leader with a customer focus, accounting background, and a track record of working across stakeholders to deliver against commitments. This person must be highly collaborative, be able to earn the trust of their peers and internal customers and be able to successfully manage ambiguity and frequently changing priorities. Responsibilities
  • Be the CEO for Fixed Asset Solutions: Successes and failures of the product will be the responsibility of this role and a high degree of professionalism and accountability is required. You will be tasked with building and leading a cross-departmental team focused on the accounting business, working with Product Management, Marketing, Sales, Partners and Alliances, Customer Success, Professional Services and Support. This requires the ability to influence without direct authority and bring together diverse stakeholders to solve difficult and challenging problems, analyze market data and internal metrics, and ultimately present to the executive leadership the strategy, direction, and performance of the accounting solutions on an ongoing basis.
  • Establish and Communicate Fixed Asset Strategy: We need an individual that will use knowledge of the market and industry trends, product management best practices, and strategic planning, to establish a distinctive product vision and multi-year solution roadmap for the accounting products with the intent to deliver business value and improve customer satisfaction. This requires leadership, product, sales, and marketing skills to put together a complete business plan that enables your products to succeed. At times you will be required to analyze buy, build and partnering options, making recommendations to executive leadership. Equally important is ability to communicate and advocate for the product roadmaps to internal leadership and stakeholders.
  • Earn the Trust of Customers and Experts: To be successful, you will need to understand the PowerPlan accounting software functionality and understand the needs of the market and the business value for our customers that the solution produces. In addition, you will need to show a high aptitude for understanding complex problems, collaborating and conversing with industry experts, building and maintaining key customer relationships and distilling the noise around varying market problems into discrete actionable solutions. Partnering with Product Marketing to develop thought leadership content and evangelizing the Fixed Asset solution both internally and externally.
  • Drive Product Launches: Manage entire product life cycle from concept through strategic planning to tactical investments within product development and other areas. Work closely with Product Manager, Product Owners, Product Designers and Engineering to drive the prioritization and execution of product roadmap. Ownership over successful execution of product launches, starting with detailed launch plans, controlling release scope, and timely and consistent communication regarding changes and current status.
  • Team Engagement & Leadership : Create a healthy team culture of happy and productive employees who understand the vision and strategy and are empowered to drive innovation and make decisions necessary to execute and meet clearly defined and communicated goals. Enable consistent measurement and transparent visibility of results and pivot as necessary. Guide others in execution and professional development and for attracting, retaining and developing top talent. Qualifications Recommended
    • A passion for thoughtfully-designed products that people love to use
    • Great communication and collaboration skills
    • Proven ability to lead teams both with and without direct line of authority
    • Proven track record of decision making and problem-solving
    • High degree of strategic thinking and ability to define and pursue high level objectives
    • Excellent analytical, research, organizational and planning skills
    • Excellent teamwork skills and the ability to develop and maintain internal and external relationships
    • Great references and recommendations from colleagues and prior-managers DISCLAIMER The statements contained within this document are not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities of the job described, nor are they intended to be such a listing of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Rather, they are intended only to describe the general nature of the job. --PowerPlan, Inc. hereby expressly reserves the right to modify any or all job descriptions as it becomes necessary or appropriate. This job description is not a contract for employment and either the employee or the Company may terminate employment at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, subject to applicable laws. Sorry the Share function is not working properly at this moment. Please refresh the page and try again later.

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