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Sr. Program Manager, Brands Products Bazaarvoice
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About Bazaarvoice:Bazaarvoice is a SaaS company that brings the power of social commerce to the world's best brands. Social commerce happens when you connect customers to one another in ways which drive measurable results to your business. Bazaarvoice helps all types of businesses capture, display, share, and analyze customer conversations online. Our combination of technology and personalized services help brands build online communities who help drive
measurable business goals. We make it easy for our clients to let their customers share opinions, knowledge, and experiences.
Bazaarvoice is an open, creative and collaborative culture, where passion and excellence rule. You have the opportunity to work within a world-class organization bringing cutting-edge interfaces and functionality to brand marketers. Great ideas can come from anywhere. We?re looking for imaginative people who want to be a part of the conversation and have an impact on the future of social commerce.
Who We Want:
Bazaarvoice Product Operations is seeking an experienced Sr. Program Manager, Brands Products who will be responsible for the coordinated execution of product development and releases for the Brands products team.
- Own Bazaarvoice brands product releases and release process -- work across Product Management, Product Marketing, and Engineering to coordinate and execute product releases in accordance with product lifecycle processes
- Manage complex dependencies across multiple, parallel product development teams, and identify areas of delivery risk, and remove obstacles to on-time, high-quality product delivery
- Establish regular interactions with internal stakeholder teams (Account Management, Sales, Implementation, Support, Finance, Legal, etc) to ensure that these stakeholder needs are accounted for and incorporated into product release plans
- Develop, maintain, and execute communications plans for the Brands product line
- Execute post-release support / transition processes to ensure that product launches are successful and that products are set up to achieve adoption goals
- Provide consistent visibility to product delivery health in the form of regular status updates up, down, and across the organization
- Provide consistent monitoring and visibility to product health to key product financial and functional performance metrics in the form of product scorecards
- Collaborate with peer Program Managers to
ensure that product lifecycle processes are being followed, and that product
initiatives move quickly through lifecycle stages while meeting defined exit
criteria and stakeholder acceptance
- Participate in other strategic initiatives and process improvements in partnership with the Director of Product Operations, and the Director of Product Management, Brands
Skills and Experience Necessary for the Role:
- Minimum of 5-7 years? experience in program management, in a product software or technology consulting environment
- Demonstrated ability to lead by influence, and work effectively in a cross-functional,
matrixed management environment
- Experience working in an Agile delivery organization and familiarity with Agile
principles/practices
- Experience working in a SaaS product environment is desired
- Experience with configuring and using MS Sharepoint and Atlassian JIRA, or similar
collaboration and work/workflow management tools
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
- Excellent communication skills, active listening, writing skills.
- Ability to quickly establish credibility and rapport with technical team members
- Ability to drive clarity of purpose and goals for product development and release planning
- Excellent organizational skills including ability to prioritize tasks efficiently with high level of attention to detail
- Ability to work under tight deadlines while coordinating several projects at a time and
responding to changing business and technical conditions
- Courageous and assertive, shows determination to remove impediments to success, at all
levels of the organization
| Location: | 3900 N. Capital of Texas Hwy Suite 300 Austin, TX 78746 United States |
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THIS JOB HAS EXPIRED
Bazaarvoice
Bazaarvoice, one of Austin's leading, venture-backed Web startups that serves domestic and international Fortune 500 brands with word of mouth online technology and services. We have experienced explosive growth with featured articles in the New York Times, AdAge, Fortune Magazine, and we are the only Texas-based startup to make the Red Herring 100 North America and Global list.Investors: Austin Ventures, Battery Ventures, First Round Capital
All Jobs: at Bazaarvoice
| Web Site: | www.bazaarvoice.com |
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| Headquarters: | 3900 N. Capital of Texas Hwy Suite 300 Austin, TX 78746 United States |
| Employees: | >100 |
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| Industry: | Software |
| About Bazaarvoice Bazaarvoice is a SaaS company that brings the power of social commerce to the world's best brands. Social commerce happens when you connect customers to one another in ways which drive measurable results to your business. Bazaarvoice helps all types of businesses capture, display, share, and analyze customer conversations online. Our combination of technology and personalized services help brands build online communities who help drive measurable business goals. We make it easy for our clients to let their customers share opinions, knowledge, and experiences. Bazaarvoice is an open, creative and collaborative culture, where passion and excellence rule. You have the opportunity to work within a world-class organization bringing cutting-edge interfaces and functionality to market on leading eCommerce sites. Great ideas can come from anywhere. We're looking for imaginative people who want to be a part of the conversation and have an impact on the future of social commerce. |
