What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Product position at On Plane Consulting?
Job Summary
Sierra Interactive helps real estate professionals close more deals. Our scalable, easy to use platform helps our customers leverage best in class marketing technology to manage and grow their businesses. We are looking for a Director of Product to help us move to our next phase of growth. This role will report to the CEO. They must be a strong servant leader who will build consensus and partner across all functional verticals to translate and prioritize customer needs into product offerings for the real estate market.
The Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate will have the following experience in marketing, real estate and product management:
· 7 years leading product management, ideally with a SaaS or similar business
· 2 years in B2B sales to small business owners
This candidate will also align with our culture, specifically our values:
It’s about progress, not perfection...
We’re continuously identifying pain points and solutions to make our product and our company better
Building positive, lasting relationships...
We lead with respect and empathy, always seeking to do the right thing
We own it together...
We help each other, learn from each other, and hold ourselves accountable. We succeed only when we do it together.
… for ourselves and our customers
Description / Job Function
This is a full-time, fully remote position.
You will own current product features and the planning/development process for
new product features or offerings. These
will be developed with input from customers, sales, finance, leadership team
and the technology development team.
Specifically, you will:
- Use servant leadership skills to build consensus and buy-in from the legacy team
- Gather customer input regarding our platform directly from customers
- Gather input from Sales, Marketing, Project Management, and Customer Success teams on current features and new feature requests
- Work with our technical team to understand feasibility of feature changes
- Work with our CEO and leadership team to prioritize a list of potential features based on ROI and technical difficulty
- Own feature development timelines, keeping stakeholders up to date on the enhancements and coordinating roll outs between groups (IT/Marketing/Sales/Customer Success)
Requirements
Necessary Experience:
- 7 or more years leading product management in a high growth SaaS or similar business
- Demonstrated ability to lead a product management function
- BS/BA in related function
Necessary Leadership Competencies:
- Internally motivated to act as a servant leader
- Entrepreneurial mindset to initiate and drive new business opportunities
- Ability to act as an informal leader with peers and other stakeholders
- Adept at listening to needs and input from the legacy team and negotiating and teaching to gain alignment with the team. This person excels at negotiating to get to a short list and then communicating/using influence and teaching the team, so they understand why some things made it onto the list and other things did not
- Ability to think strategically, specifically about future impacts of proposed or pending changes
- Ability to effectively communicate new and complex ideas to all levels within the company
- Ability to self-manage, holding themselves accountable and managing perceptions with their stakeholders
- Ability to motivate others to do their best work
Benefits
Benefits are available contingent upon completion of a 30 day on-boarding period and include:
- Fully paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for full-time employees
- Paid holidays and paid time off
- Matching retirement plan contributions up to 4% of base salary for full-time employees
About Us
Sierra Interactive builds tools for real estate professionals to grow their businesses. As a tech company that's been around for 10 years, we are financially stable, friendly, fast moving and high growth. Our customer focus results in customers who rely on our products as an essential part of their day-to-day operations. Their referrals show the results of this commitment.
