Director of Product, Virtual Facility
$165-185k
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Automated building intelligence & workflow software
Job no longer available
Automated building intelligence & workflow software
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$165-185k
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
Virtual Facility's mission is to increase productivity with intelligent, automated, and configurable tools that drive results.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years in software group product management or product ownership of an enterprise SaaS solution
- Exhibited strong product management and/or leadership responsibility growth within prior positions
- Strong market, customer and user research skills
- Excellent communication, relationship, and collaboration skills to effectively engage with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
- Ability to analyze and synthesize market research, user feedback, and business requirements to make informed product decisions
- Strong organizational and prioritization skills to manage a dynamic product backlog and deliver within deadlines
- Strong understanding of project development and management principles, methodologies and best practices
- Familiarity with Agile development methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Kanban) and tools (e.g., JIRA)
- Technical background or understanding of software development processes
- A team player mentality. We’re peers, no egos please
What the job involves
- Product Vision and Strategy:
- Collaborate with the CEO and internal key stakeholders to define and communicate the product vision, goals, and strategy
- Conduct market research and competitor analysis to inform product decisions
- Spend significant time engaging with customers, our prospective pipeline and market experts to gain a deeper understanding of the challenges our customers face, why these challenges persist today in their current form, and the value customers and Virtual Facility obtain by solving them. The insight gained here will provide a deeper understanding of customer pain points and opportunities for improvement
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to develop a diverse set of hypotheses, concepts, and prototypes to test against your market discovery, our evolving product strategy, and product capability. The insight gained here will play a critical role in shaping our product vision, refining our product strategy, and informing our roadmap
- Continuously monitor industry trends and emerging technologies relevant to the product
- Product Roadmap and Planning
- In charge of creating and managing the product roadmap by prioritizing features and enhancements based on stakeholder feedback, customer feedback, market demands, and business objectives, and technological requirements
- Align the product roadmap with the company's overall strategy and effectively communicate it to the stakeholders
- Stakeholder Management:
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to gather requirements, understand their needs, and incorporate feedback into the product
- Engage and visit with customers, conduct user interviews, test prototype concepts and gather user feedback to validate and refine product features to obtain customer needs
- Effectively communicate product updates, progress, and release plans to stakeholders
- Product Backlog Management:
- Create, manage, and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring that it aligns with the product vision and strategic objectives
- Regularly refine and reprioritize the backlog based on feedback, changing market conditions, and business priorities
- Manage and collaborate with key stakeholders on defining the objectives, main components and key measurable customer outcomes for each major feature in the product backlog
- Product Quality and Delivery:
- Lead product team and development process to promote a strong focus on understanding and addressing user needs
- Oversee and refine the product development process to ensure efficient and effective execution against our product roadmap, timely delivery and continuous improvement
- Work closely with engineering, design, marketing, sales, and customer support to ensure alignment and effective execution
- Provide timely clarification and guidance to the development team during the development process
- Develop and monitor key metrics and use data to drive decision-making and optimization
- Collaborate with the product team to conduct user research and gather customer feedback to ensure that the product is designed and developed with the user in mind, leading to intuitive and delightful user experiences
- Collaborate and oversee the existing product manager that is conducting the sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
- Foster a culture of collaboration, promote cross-functional communication, and break down silos
- Team Leadership and Development:
- Be a vocal company culture leader within the product team
- Provide mentorship and guidance, and create an environment that fosters growth, innovation, and collaboration
- Recruit top talent as the opportunity to grow the team further arises
Our take
Large institutional facilities - such as hospitals, universities, and commercial facilities - lose a huge amount of money to operational expenses. Virtual Facility uses AI to predict, control and reduce these costs. Its modular suite of workflow automation solutions saves clients considerable amounts of time managing these processes.
Virtual Facility enables proactive and predictive insights into building operations, providing its clients with accurate, real-time, and data driven intelligence. Its scalable software-only solution is easily integrateable and manages all data in a secure, central dashboard.
Virtual Facility raised $9 million in seed funding in 2022, this has accelerate its adoption across the US. This has been vital for the company as it consolidates its foothold in the US and beyond. The company has also invested in developing new tools for its platform, such as its cloud-based alarm management system.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jun 2022
$9m
SEED
Total funding: $9m
Company benefits
- Fully-distributed team - remote in continental US time zones welcome
- Equity
- Fully-paid health insurance options, free One Medical membership, 401k, and other supplemental benefits through Justworks
- Choose your OS - we'll set you up with a powerful Mac, Windows, or Linux laptop + monitor plus any accessories and software you need for the job
- Subsidies for home office set-up and discounts with Branch
- A dozen all-company holidays and flexible PTO - we require you to take at least 2 weeks off each year for vacation (or whatever you want). This isn't a vague policy where unlimited vacation means no vacation -- we take time to recharge
- Ground floor positions with a fast-growing startup - that means your work is sure to have a big impact and there are many potential career paths ahead!
Company HQ
Murray Hill, New York, NY
Leadership
Mark Prewett
(CEO)Previously worked as Project Manager & Senior Mechanical Engineer at PB Power. Is a Partner at Enica Engineering.
Reed Berinato
(CPO)Was Project Manager and Senior Engineer at Buro Happold, and Senior Energy Engineer at The Dome-Tech Group.
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