Product Manager

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Indigo is a high growth innovative agriculture company based in Boston. We have an extraordinary opportunity to help farmers harness nature to feed the planet in a sustainable manner. Our biological advancements enable us to work with farmers to improve agriculture in a way that creates enormous economic value while benefiting the environment and providing consumers a more natural food supply.

 

As a Product Manager, you are responsible for driving Indigo’s customer-facing products to delight Indigo’s customers. You will act as the owner for the product’s capability, feature prioritization, and user experience perspectives. As the product owner you will drive the product roadmap for one or more product or product lines. You will be responsible for the vision and profitability of a product or product line, collaborating with all cross-functional stakeholders to make business decisions and create product strategies and roadmaps to ensure the long-term sustainability of those product or product lines. You will act as the primary “voice of customer” in the Technology organization. You will possess deep understandings of the 3rd-party products available, contributing to build, partner, and buy decisions. You will also be responsible for identifying Indigo’s competitive landscape, clearly articulating product capabilities as leading, parity and lagging in associated product or product line strategies for each. You will be an active participant in marketing strategies for product or product line.

 

Outcomes

Platform

  • Develop deep understanding of existing and planned platform solution and capabilities
  • Analyze 3rd-party vendor landscape and propose partnership / integration strategy
  • Analyze competitive landscape and present to Technology leadership

Product

  • Collaborate with with multiple teams across the indigo organization to help determine the business impact and short and long-term vision for your product
  • Define and create product detailed product roadmap
  • Create and prioritize use cases

Process

  • Assume primary Product Ownership responsibilities (roadmap, user stories, prioritization, stakeholder buy-in)
  • Participate in agile software product management and development best practices definition and execution, inculcating and championing those best practices at Indigo
  • Institute and execute stakeholder review meetings for product or product line at agreed-to cadence
  • Work closely with all internal product-related teams to ensure alignment across Product Development processes
  • Mentor and coach other Product Managers on product management and agile best practices
  • Execute customer-driven culture in how we prioritize and allocate our Technology investment

Communication

  • Establish clear and concise communications channels with stakeholders within the organization (i.e. Business, Engineering, Marketing) to provide visibility into product or product line decisions and process for decision making
  • Establish trust with internal and external customers to allow for a regular cadence of communication which helps to get design feedback early and often
  • Clearly articulate product value to senior management

Competencies

  • Able to balance customer-centricity, stakeholder expectations and technical feasibility for software product or product line, clearly articulating tradeoffs
  • Able to define, gain buy-in from stakeholders and drive product vision for a specific software product or product line
  • Excellent cross-functional communicator, able to work with a diverse set of internal and external stakeholders
  • Able to translate business needs into product roadmap and technology specifications and use cases
  • Highly aligned and deep understanding of company strategy, mapping strategy to execution
  • Process orientation with strong time-management skills and demonstrated ability to change course, as needed
  • Decisive and well-informed decision-maker
  • Excellent listening skills
  • Demonstrates ability to effectively work as a member of a team, with great listening and oral and written communication skills
  • Able to structure and process qualitative and quantitative data and draw insightful conclusions
  • Demonstrates tenacity and willingness to deliver on agreed-to outcomes in the agreed-to timeframes
  • Proactively brings new ideas to the table, spanning people, process and product

 

Qualifications

  • 3-6 years Product Management Experience
  • Track record of building and delivering excellent customer-facing software products
  • Experience working with software engineering teams in an agile / lean development environment
  • Experience building product that delights customers
  • Active Communication skills (communicating out and listening successfully)


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On the edge of Charlestown, we are within walking distance to restaurants and bars. The Sullivan Square T and bus stop is also right next door! We are currently working remote/hybrid with the exception of our fantastic Biotrinsic team who work from the office and lab space here.

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