Product Manager, Anaplan
Cloud-based modeling and planning for sales, operations, and finance
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Cloud-based modeling and planning for sales, operations, and finance
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
Anaplan's mission is to make all planning for all people a reality. They believe our world is better when we connect communities of people with data to enhance decision-making in dynamic environments.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of outbound product management in a cloud company (SaaS or PaaS)
- 3+ years' experience working in an Agile development environment
- Domain knowledge of cloud security with established SaaS / EPM products
- Experience with cloud administration and security features such as Identity Management, Authorization, OAuth, X509 certificates, and API keys
- Experience creating requirements, design, and documentation of APIs and enterprise services based on an API-first approach
- Experience with creating customer onboarding and product launch workflows and processes
- Highly analytical and able to troubleshoot issues quickly – you should be able to go from high level to low level very easily
- Excellent presentation and written communication skills
- Able and willing to work in a fast-paced, quickly changing environment
- Innovative leadership DNA – understand how to balance inputs across stakeholders and lead teams in the right direction
- Bachelor's degree in CS, Engineering, or related experience is preferred
What the job involves
- Anaplan is looking for a passionate Product Manager to help drive the development of our next-generation platform and products
- This person will work in our Enterprise Success team and be instrumental in executing our product strategy with a data-driven and customer-oriented focus
- Understand the market and our customers. Be the voice of the customer while always having an ear to the market. Be able to define and segment users of the Anaplan platform and products qualitatively and quantitatively
- Work with the Product, UX, Engineering, Customer Success, and other cross-functional teams on roadmap planning, including capacity planning and/or future technology changes
- Drive end-to-end feature delivery: writing user stories with clear acceptance criteria, working with UX to create prototypes for usability testing and research, and working with engineering, documentation, support, and marketing to deliver quality products
- Work closely with development teams to execute product development
- Effectively collaborate across global teams to create alignment between engineering teams and other product stakeholders
- Train sales, customer success, and support on new features and messaging
- Partner with Marketing and CS to develop a go-to-market strategy for new feature launches
- Meet with customers, users, prospects, and partners to communicate Anaplan's product vision, product roadmap, and competitive differentiation
Our take
Anaplan provides cloud-based planning software across various use cases. The Anaplan platform replaces the patchwork of outdated tools (from the likes of Oracle, SAP and IBM) that don’t interact well with each other, and does away with the manual planning processes that are often overly complex, inefficient and costly.
The Anaplan platform can handle high volumes of data processed in real-time. The company’s modeling engine - based on proprietary Hyperblock technology - enables thousands of concurrent users to all access a centralized data pool. The technology lets users create detailed planning models that incorporate data down to the transaction level (across stores, employees and product SKUs) to improve decision making. While legacy planning solutions tend to be focused solely on the finance department, Anaplan’s platform enables collaborative planning across all areas. The company generates about 40% of its business from outside of core finance use cases.
There are multiple ways for the Anaplan platform to be used throughout any organisation - ranging from budgeting and forecasting to modelling and pricing optimisation. Planning tools can be put to work to gauge sales performance, handle departmental budgets, manage marketing spending, improve inventory management, and deal with IT project budgeting.
Anaplan has over 175 partners and more than 1,700 customers worldwide, and was acquired by Thomas Bravo in 2022, reconfirming its position as a leader in connected planning. Despite its solid position, the company was not immune to layoffs in 2023 due to the economic slowdown.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Dec 2017
$60m
SERIES F
Jan 2016
$90m
SERIES E
Total funding: $299.9m
Company benefits
- Flexible working
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Open
- Authentic
- Inclusive
- Collaborative
- Creative
- Tenacious
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Charlie Gottdiener
(CEO (Not Founder))Currently Board Member at TransUnion, Neustar Security Services, and smartShift.
People progressing
Rick
Joined as Lead Technical Recruiter, promoted to Senior Technical Recruiting Manager after 5 years. They have recently been promoted to Director of Global Technical Recruiting.
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