Principle Product Manager

The immersive (XR) market is exploding, and PIXO is leading the way. With our groundbreaking PIXO platform, that includes comprehensive tools for immersive content development, distribution and management. Our product is typically deployed and consumed from a learning management system, and enables our customers to accomplish their enterprise training objectives, reducing risk, improving quality with greater confidence, and ultimately profitability. PIXO is a fast paced company, focused on the growth of our employees and our business. Due to our aggressive acceleration plan, every employee has the opportunity to advance their knowledge and position through hard work and initiative. We offer a culture of personal accountability, rewarded with generous benefits and a flexible work environment. This position can be based in our Michigan office or be remote.

Job Overview:

PIXO VR is searching for a Product Manager to join our team. The Product Manager will oversee and grow our product(s); including owning competitive analysis, customer input and feedback, product roadmap influence and go to market activities. The Product Manager will be central to the strategic vision of our solutions and business, working closely with the executive and functional teams to fully understand the customers’ needs, from what’s working and what isn’t. In addition, this role will require an understanding of the enterprise sector that should lead to a strategic vision for our product and plans to address that proactively.

Duties And Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the executive team to refine and articulate the strategic vision for the company and its technology, harmonizing platform development with end user experience.
• Manage requirements-setting and prioritization of investments through market research and direct engagement with current and prospective customers.
• Develop, validate, own, and maintain an actionable product roadmap that will achieve progress toward the company’s vision, ultimately surprising and delighting target segment(s) and producing meaningful results for the company.
• Guide and inform go-to-market activities based on research and market engagement to set pricing, placement (channels), positioning, and promotion in cooperation with the Executive and Sales and Marketing teams.
• Act as the face of the product, speaking at industry events, conducting hands-on market diligence, and engaging with strategic accounts.
• With the CEO and leadership team, rally the PIXO team around a shared vision for the PIXO product(s) and cooperate cross-functionally to orchestrate progress across Product Development, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success.
  
  

Required Skills And Qualifications:

• 7 years in software product management or product strategy.
• B2B enterprise software experience, SaaS experience highly preferred.
• Experience working with subscription products or services, particularly platform based.
• Experience in startup culture, wearing many hats and practicing flexibility highly preferred.
• Excellent communicator to senior-level executives; able to adapt communication styles across audience and stakeholder groups and fine tune value proposition accordingly.
• Experience producing wireframes, mockups, prototypes, and user interaction diagrams to support ideation and customer-driven design.
• User experience focused with relevant experience improving and optimizing UX/UI.
• Experience with different project lifecycle methodologies.
• Ability to multitask and manage deadlines in a cross-functional team while remaining detail-oriented.
  
  

Attributes:

• Positive outlook with a drive to meet and exceed goals.
• Collaborative, curious and empathetic.
• Passion around learning, growing, and developing new technology solutions.
• Natural problem solver who identifies, owns, and tackles issues proactively.
• Entrepreneurial mindset.
• Develop, validate, own, and maintain an actionable product roadmap that will achieve progress toward the company’s vision, ultimately surprising and delighting target segment(s) and producing meaningful results for the company.
• Guide and inform go-to-market activities based on research and market engagement to set pricing, placement (channels), positioning, and promotion in cooperation with the Executive and Sales and Marketing teams.
• Act as the face of the product, speaking at industry events, conducting hands-on market diligence, and engaging with strategic accounts.
• With the CEO and leadership team, rally the PIXO team around a shared vision for the PIXO product(s) and cooperate cross-functionally to orchestrate progress across Product Development, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success.
  
  

Required Skills And Qualifications:

• 7 years in software product management or product strategy.
• B2B enterprise software experience, SaaS experience highly preferred.
• Experience working with subscription products or services, particularly platform based.