Product Manager

Digital Map Products is looking for an experienced Product Manager to grow our product offering. Keeping and delighting customers is everything here at DMP; developing powerful yet easy-to-use location technology solutions is one of the primary means we accomplish this. We are building a best-in-class Product team to ensure our solutions are tightly aligned with customer needs, leading the industry in innovation, and delivering maximum value to our customers.

Reporting to the Director of Product Management, you will lead the next generation of mapping products from concept to launch. Leveraging your analytical problem solving, business acumen, technical background and customer centricity, you will coordinate the people, systems, and processes for ensuring product success. You ask the right questions and are a master at picking up on subtle details and clearly articulating requirements.

What you will do:

• Help define product strategy, roadmap, and releases that align with established product vision, delight both external and internal customers, and create high business value.
• Own and maintain prioritized product backlog with well-defined user stories, gathering requirements from customers and other stakeholders with focus on their goals and process.
• Manage the product release / launch process. Prepare launch plans, determine release goals, and drive cross functional team alignment and readiness to ensure a successful launch.
• Partner with User Experience and Software Development teams to design and build easy-to-use software solutions by executing product roadmap / vision and contributing to sprint planning.
• Perform market research and competitive analysis to understand industry trends and positioning, identifying and evaluating the business value for new product opportunities.
• Present product capabilities and plans to customers, prospects, internal stakeholders, and public events.
• Define, collect and measure key product metrics to inform relative success of each innovation/ release/ launch and leverage data to support product decisions.

Who you are:

• Educated – Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline. MBA preferred from top ranked program.
• Experienced – 2+ years of experience in software Product focused role with 3 to 5 years overall, ideal experience with Analytics products in Real Estate industry.
• Technically adept and familiar with agile software development methods and processes. Able to work with technical teams to develop innovative solutions, evaluate implementation alternatives, assess rough level of effort, and troubleshoot blocking issues.
• Inherently collaborative. You are both technically and emotionally intelligent and confident but approachable. Not afraid to champion your cause using rational persuasion and excellent interpersonal skills but will stand by the group decision once committed.
• Outstanding data-driven problem solver and critical thinker with a can-do attitude and adaptable nature.
• Passionate about process with strong project management skills. Proven track record of delivering projects within scope, time, budget and quality goals.
• Excellent communicator with the ability to quickly understand and explain complex concepts to diverse audiences in both written and oral formats.
• Knowledge of GIS and location technologies, and/or real estate or government a big benefit.
• Ability to travel, both domestically and internationally as needed.

To Apply to this Position:

Please email your resume and cover letter to drettew@digmap.com for further consideration.

NOTE: To all recruitment agencies: Digital Map Products does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to DMP employees or any other company location. DMP is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with the Company.

More About Digital Map Products

We hire and reward passionate people who’ve been instrumental to our success. Our profitable and double-digit compound annual growth over nearly the past two decades is a direct result of our talented team and our loyal customers.

As a place to work in Orange County, we take great pride in the family environment enjoyed by our employees. We have a new, tech-friendly corporate headquarters (over 22,000 square feet) just off the 73 freeway and on the edge of the campus at UC Irvine, you will love working here! With employee appreciation lunches, the constant presence of healthy snacks and a variety of flexible work options, Digital Map Products offers a great environment.

Our Company Values

• Innovation: We provide unmistakable, tangible value each time we update or launch new solutions.
• Solutions Focused: We provide easy-to-use technology and data solutions to speed customer decision-making.
• Customer Success: We engage early and often to understand the needs and priorities of our customers.
• Work-Life Balance: We provide a healthy workplace for our employees and support a true sense of time off.

We serve a global customer base with offices in the United States and Canada. To learn more, find us on LinkedIn or follow us on Twitter @DMPInc.