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Anaplan · 2 days ago
Product Manager
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$132K/yr - $179K/yr
3+ years exp
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Responsibilities
Understand and implement team goals and strategy, ensuring alignment with circle and value stream vision; Articulate team goals and strategy effectively to key stakeholders, leads, and team members.
Product Backlog Management: Effectively manage a backlog of deliverables and capabilities as well as 'test and learn'/experimentation targeted at defining/refining future deliverables, measuring performance, and adjusting the overall roadmap of deliverables as needed.
User Story Creation: Break down high-level requirements into detailed user stories with clear acceptance criteria, ensuring that development teams have a comprehensive understanding of the desired functionality. Focus on achieving defined outcomes rather than defining how the work is completed.
Prioritization and Release Planning: Collaborate with the development team to prioritize user stories for each sprint and participate in release planning to set the overall direction for the product.
Act as the voice of the end-user; have a deep understanding of and respond to customer feedback, ensuring needs and requirements are clearly defined; ensure teamwork product meets defined acceptance criteria.
Continuous Communication: Maintain open and transparent communication with the development team, stakeholders, and other relevant parties, providing updates on progress, challenges, and priority changes.
Inform and participate in business readiness; understand the impact of change; implement the approach to manage adoption and mitigate resistance.
Feedback Gathering: Provide feedback on work-in-progress, clarify requirements, and contribute to removing roadblocks or impediments. Look for opportunities for continuous team and process improvement.
Onboarding: Contribute to external-facing onboarding sessions to communicate the vision, scope, and Business Process of the Application
Qualification
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Required
Bachelor's Degree: Often in Computer Science, Business, Engineering, or a related field.
Product Management Experience: Typically, 3-5 years of experience in product management or a related role.
Software Development Experience: Experience in Anaplan Application development or working closely with development teams is highly valuable.
Experience with Anaplan: Hands-on experience with Anaplan, including model building and using the platform, is often required or highly preferred.
Industry Experience: Experience in Sales Planning Applications such as Territory and Quota Planning, Sales Forecasting, Incentive compensation management
Technical Skills: Understanding of Anaplan Model Building
Analytical Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Project Management: Ability to manage projects, timelines, and deliverables.
Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to articulate product features and benefits to stakeholders.
Leadership Skills: Ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive product vision.
Customer Focus: Strong understanding of customer needs and the ability to translate them into product requirements.
Market Research: Ability to conduct market research and competitive analysis.
Strategic Thinking: Strong strategic and business acumen to align the product with company goals.
Agile/Scrum: Familiarity with Agile or Scrum methodologies is often required as many software development teams use these frameworks.
Detail-oriented: Attention to detail to ensure high-quality product deliverables.
Preferred
Master's Degree (optional but preferred): An MBA in a relevant field can be advantageous.
Certified Anaplan Model Builder is preferred: Certification in Anaplan can demonstrate expertise in using the platform.
Product Management Certifications is preferred: Certifications from recognized institutions like Pragmatic Institute, AIPMM, or PMI.
Product Management Tools: Experience with JIRA, Confluence, or other product management software.
Innovative Thinking: Creativity and innovation in product development.
Adaptability: Ability to adapt to changing market conditions and customer needs.
Benefits
Health Insurance
Training and Development Budget
Company
Anaplan
Anaplan is a business planning software company that develops a cloud platform for decision-making with connected planning modeling.
1,001-5,000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2023 (45)
2022 (63)
2021 (101)
2020 (67)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$299.9MKey Investors
PremjiInvestFounders Circle CapitalDFJ Growth
2022-03-20Acquired· by Thoma Bravo ($10.7B)
2018-10-12IPO· nyse:PLAN
2018-01-01Secondary Market· Undisclosed
Leadership Team
Charles E. Gottdiener
Chief Executive Officer
Vikas Mehta
CFO
Recent News
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