Lead Product Manager (RapidScale)

About Us:RapidScale is one of the fastest growing Cloud Computing companies in the industry. The company has a solid track-record of delivering world class products and services to our customers located throughout the country and around the globe. The Product Management team is at the pinnacle of this change, productizing dozens of solutions every year, this role will help drive rigor and processes to support the Product team and their go to market strategies.Job Summary:The Lead Product Manager – Product Administrator will be responsible for accelerating go-to-market activities across the broader Product Management team. This highly visible function will help accelerate product launches into market through various support initiatives as well as other direct revenue streams including evaluation of Individual Case Basis Sales ( aka ICB Sales ). The successful candidate will have a strong knowledge of Project Management and Process Management processes, Data Analytics, KPIs, and understanding of tools such as Excel, Power-BI, PowerPoint to help deliver presentation, and or reporting capabilities to the Product Team and mid-level leaders across the business. The successful candidate will be involved in analyzing data, including producing business cases or making decisions based on data points.Technical Skill RequirementsQualifications:• Ability to define business cases that drive specific business outcomes.• Ability to define repeatable processes to help accelerate the business for faster execution.• Experience managing multiple projects through a defined process.• Possess a solid understanding of KPIs, financial drivers and cost, margin models, and how to represent these to the business.• understanding of modelling tools such as (Power-Bi, Domo) and how to represent data through dashboards, reporting.• Strong skills around Excel, PowerPoint are critical to this role, as representing data through presentations, or modelling data is a requirement.• Responsible for Change Management of Product Catalog, for new / existing parts through Product Administration tool.• Drive special projects including but not limited to decommissioning of services, and program changes for services.Duties and Responsibilities: (Essential Duties include but are not limited to):• Responsible for owning and driving a business process around individual case basis sales, including all meetings, approvals and notifications.• Responsible management and updates of New / Existing Product Parts, including communication plan for parts to business (including Marketing, SEs and Sales) teams.• Work with Product Managers on custom data driven projects, to help drive KPIs that assist with and help accelerate go to market deliverables for specific solutions.• Own prioritization for deliverables including project and ICB efforts.• Provides support for QBRs as needed including collection of KPIs• Provides support for decommissioning projects from a Product lensEDUCATION / EXPERIENCE & OTHER MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:The minimum qualifications listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and ability necessary for an individual to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable amounts of training are provided.Educational & Skills Requirements:• A BA/BS with 6+ years of experience in a related field• OR a MS and 4+ years of experience,• OR a Ph.D. and 1 year of experience,• OR 10+ years of experience in a related field without a degree.• Excellent communication, presentation, writing, and editorial abilities.• Excellent organizational and time management skills.• Critical thinking and problem solving.• Require limited supervision and direction. Drive results and set priorities independently.• Flexible work hours.Needed Attributes:• A proven level of experience working with multiple projects to tight deadlines• Ability to demonstrate working with Datasets providing reports, presentations across different use cases.• Excellent communication skills.• Experience working within projects.• Proficiency in computer usage, internet, and Microsoft Office suite of applications.Inter-Relationships:Ability to work within a cooperative team environment as well as perform assignments autonomously. This position will require working with several departments and different personalities.Working Environment:Fast paced, positive, high energy environment. Can have high levels of stress due to deadlines and necessity of quick response times.