Vice President – Product Management
| Company | Iridium Communications |
|---|---|
| Location | Vienna, VA, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, MBA |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required, MBA preferred
- 15+ years of experience in product development and/or management
- 15+ years of experience in cellular, networking and/or satellite voice and data products and services
- Experience managing, mentoring, and coaching employees
- Demonstrated strategic influence and consensus-building among all levels of leadership and across multiple teams
- Ability to effectively present information, drive discussion, and respond to difficult scenarios across the organization
- Ability to plan and lead formal meetings with executive leadership team, as well as collaboration across teams providing product level plans
- Ability to come up to speed quickly with company systems, proprietary systems, and emerging technology
- Ability to multi-task, improvise and solve complex problems and manage with minimal supervision
- Results driven, strong sense of ownership, strong sense of urgency
- Skilled at organizational development, personnel management, change management, budget and resource development, and strategic planning
- Demonstrated ability to “think outside the box” and propose creative alternatives
- Enthusiastic and passionate with the ability to simplify complex technical & business issues/ideas for those without the same depth of understanding even in challenging situations
- Demonstrated ability to establish customer and partner relationships
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a product management team across all Iridium commercial product and service offerings and across all vertical applications including Land, Maritime, IoT and Aviation
- Foster and develop a highly effective, collaborative environment where accountability and clear, effective communication is demonstrated daily; inspire the team to create market leading solutions
- Act as a trusted partner to executive leadership team for input on decisions
- Collaborate with the executive team, including SVPs/EVPs for commercial and USG sales to enable growth for the company and to prioritize and align the product roadmaps to meet future market expectations and projections
- Develop strategic plans, including marketing requirements and product specifications for the product development, gateway, and systems operations teams to design and develop products and solutions
- Proactively work across all functions to ensure products and services fit into relative company functionality (software systems, billing systems, etc.), processes, and procedures
- Identify and evaluate fundamental issues, providing strategy and direction for major functional areas, including the development of detailed and fact-based business case, market demand description, product definition, features and functionality for executive presentations and roadmap decision-making
- Approve and provide resources to support established project plans and oversee product management through the development and launch phases
- Develop and manage product readiness teams ensuring that all organizations are prepared to launch products and services on the plan of record launch date
- Oversee creation of technical, user, and marketing documentation for internal and external use for all products and services
- Provide on-demand support to sales teams via technical presentations, sales training material, white papers, lab demonstrations, and other customer engagements
- Oversee training of all Iridium distribution and development partners on functional operation of Iridium services and products
- Oversee development and implementation of product management processes, as required, to drive effective management of product development and success
- Drive continuous improvements cross-functionally, ensuring collaboration occurs between departments
- Lead team whose primary purpose is to introduce new products, services, feature enhancement requests and respond to customer issues
- Develop and manage department budgets and understand the impact to corporate objectives for opex, capex, and R&D as they relate to product development, product revenue, and profitability, all of which contribute to overall company goals
Preferred Qualifications
- International Travel experience is preferred
- Proficiency in English is required and one or more languages is preferred e.g. Spanish