Friday, February 12, 2010

Product Manager ( Mobile Technology ) in New York, NY

Friday, February 12, 2010
A large financial and market data corporation located in the Times Square section of New York is seeking a candidate to work as a Product Manager within Mobile Technology for a 1 year + contract.

Project Summary and Position Overview:

Work in a fast developing dynamic group with cross-functional
resources and part of a product driven group to create, manage and
grow the creation of a new product franchise. This includes optimal
integration of key content within Mobile platform and supporting the
product platform.
. Key decision making for product rollouts for new Mobile product
base with potential customers exceeding 100,000
. Key decision making for product migrations of current customers
exceeding 30,000
. Key driver of new product vision and strategy

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

. Create product roadmap and measure progress of development of
Mobile products versus overall strategy
. Daily research on mobility space including core market
developments and key competitor updates
. Manage implementation teams and develop overall strategies to
ensure seamless delivery of all new Mobile product releases
. Create strategic rollout plan and implementation packs to advise
new clients on technical and operational product launch directions
. Partner with key stakeholders to create product requirements and
creation of business use cases
. Manage client expectations and provide seamless delivery based on
customer constraints
. Develop migration phasing plan of current customer base upon each
product upgrade to minimize customer disruption.
. Create product pack concerning product details to mitigate required
customer due diligence
. Leadership over mobile support team network
. Work with other team members to influence change in a growing
organization

Additional Info:

. On time satisfaction of product, release dates, and customer
implementations
. Improvement of customer usage of Mobile products
. Increase in number of users on Mobile platform
. Revenues arising from Mobile products

Position is expected to last one year from start date.

Education:

. MBA plus, but Undergraduate degree acceptable.

Required Skills:

. 2 - 4 years prior experience in mobility space required. MUST
have this domain expertise (mobile application development
experience) - they need to bring something different

Desired Skills:

. Experience with either product rollouts or customer migrations
preferred
. Technical software experience and working across organizations
favorable
. Ongoing external exposure to customers and internal management of
service organization over due diligence and rollout for customer
implementations
. Ongoing relationships with application development group to optimize
Mobile product and platform
. Partner with program management group to track the progress of projects
via the project roadmap

Interview process: 1) quick phone screen 2) in-person interview

Experience: Please forward an attached MS Word Version of your resume along with hourly pay requirements to
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