Senior Product Manager Business Solutions Store/Marketplace

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What you'll be doing...

The Senior Product Manager Business Solutions Store/Marketplace envisions, prioritizes, builds, and sells products, features, and services. The role's mission is to drive the direction and innovation of the Business Digital Voice product portfolio. They will guide and/or collaborate with a team of product managers and developers in creating product features that not only meet current market needs, but also anticipate future trends. This individual blend of business and technical expertise will ensure Verizon's Buss/Marketplace product remains competitive and drives revenue growth, working closely with business sponsors, users, and customers to identify key pain points and collaboratively design, build solutions that delight the end-user and then partner with sales and service to sell those products to meet the revenue targets. The PM possesses a blend of business and technical expertise, can see the big picture, drive revenue, and has the confidence to make vision into reality.

Key Responsibilities:

• End-to-end ownership of the product/features from the development lifecycle (ie. ideation to release) and lifecycle management to grow the business (analytics, usage, strategy). Monitors launch and post-launch progress

• Reviewing and prioritizing product requirements; Defining the vision and business strategy for new products or features; Identifying and tracking KPIs and using them as a cornerstone for communicating to stakeholders, and the team's focus and priorities.

• Can communicate technical requirements as needed (ie. understand the tech behind the product really well)

• Strong understanding of the market opportunity. Responsibility for the product P&L, identifying and managing commercial risks, and ensuring strategic product decisions align with the business decisions

• Gain an in-depth understanding of customers and users, gathering key insights that will shape the product experience. Balancing those with the limitations defined by key stakeholders

• Conduct market research on customer needs, pain points and perform competitor gap analysis, identifying new offerings to drive growth and converting /refining them into product ideas

• Work closely with product marketers and engineers to understand the market and technology trends, define and drive product vision, business case, product strategy, and distill a product roadmap

• Partner with the engineering, and technology organizations on product development to deliver products that are fit for purpose and desirable in the market

• Collaborate with the Marketing & Sales organization on product positioning, messaging, creating a product distribution and commercialization plan, creating and setting product targets and enablement needs, and creating solutions that meet those needs

• Define MVPs, manage product backlog priorities, and strategically de-scope to achieve rapid feedback cycles.

• Synthesize perspectives across a diverse set of stakeholders to make quick decisions

• Communicate value of the offering to customers, stakeholders & leaders

• Identify future potential and opportunity space for your product and get your teams, customers, and business network excited about it

What we're looking for...

You'll need to have:

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Six or more years of relevant work experience.

• Experience understanding consumer insights, market trend analysis, usability testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping, and/or analytics.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Six or more years of Product Management experience, preferably in building B2B advanced networking, SaaS, or telecommunications products.

• Strong product intuition and user empathy.

• Experience in leading cross-functional teams and motivating/inspiring them to go the extra mile, even in uncertain circumstances.

• Experience in operating within a multi-channel/multi-region brand.

• Expertise in product portfolio management, and understanding product P&L.

• Experience working in a dynamic environment where diverse perspectives are respected and considered for creative solutions to difficult problems.

• Entrepreneurial self-starter who is self-motivated, but also a team player with a professional presence.

• Deep data and analytic orientation for evidence-based decision making.

• Excellent communications and prioritization skills, and strong business acumen.

• Has strong cross-functional skills and can motivate people not on their direct team.

• Demonstrated ability to influence at all levels of the organization.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every "even better" qualification listed above.

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