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Sr Program Manager, Product Portfolio & Release Management 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 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.
Who We Want:
Bazaarvoice Product Operations is seeking an experienced Sr. Program Manager
who will be responsible for definition, operation, and refinement of product lifecycle
processes, including opportunity analysis / intake, product release management, and product measurement / optimization.
Key Responsibilities:
Work across Product Management and Engineering to coordinate Product releases to a defined release train schedule.
Develop processes
and tools for managing the movement of product initiatives through the
lifecycle, and managing to workback milestones for each product release.
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 through each stage.
Collaborate with sales, marketing, account management, and support functions to ensure broad adoption and understanding of product lifecycle processes and associated roles and responsibilities
Manage each Product release as a project -- proactively identify and manage risks, issues, dependencies, and status.
Define and manage product opportunity analysis / intake processes, ensuring that Bazaarvoice is getting maximum value from its R&D investments.
Partner with the Product Operations team and Product Managers to define and roll-out improvements to all product lifecycle processes.
Work with Product Management to define, maintain, and measure to KPIs that reflect the actual value created by product investments, and align these metrics to overall goals of Product Management, R&D, and Bazaarvoice.
Partner with Product Managers to identify net-new product and product optimization opportunities, arising from analysis of product performance to KPIs.
Participate in other strategic initiatives and process improvements in partnership with the Director of Product Operations and Vice President, Product Management.
Skills and Experience Necessary for the Role:
Minimum of 5-7 years? experience in program or release management, in a software delivery or technical consulting environment
Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
Excellent communication skills, active listening, writing skills.
Ability to adapt, be flexible, and work well in a cross-functional, matrix management environment
Ability to quickly establish credibility and rapport with technical team members
Ability to drive clarity of purpose and goals for 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
Ability to work in a fast-paced, rapidly growing company
| 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. |
