Sr Product Manager

Job Title: Sr Product Manager FLSA Status (US Only): Exempt

Job Summary:

As leader of the product, clearly communicate and drive product strategy, direction, and vision; maintains the roadmap and strategy for the product in sync with that for the product-line and the overall ACI strategy.

As the product champion, continually drive product adoption among the customer base and target market, understand pain points and problems and address them in a timely fashion, with a constant eye on maximizing the ROI for the product; Partner with marketing, product marketing and channels to develop the GTM strategy; Stay engaged with the sales team and articulate the value proposition of the product among customers and prospects alike.

The product manager shall maintain an intimate understanding of the payments industry and the competition to quickly identify opportunities and threats, leverage our strengths and overcome our weaknesses while influencing the overall ACI product strategy.

The product manager shall be the "go to" person for the product and shall work cohesively with the application development team, AOD, finance, sales, sales operations, legal and the business analysts, representing the market and clearly conveying the requirements to ensure that the products are delivered on time and within budget.

Job Responsibilities:

Elicits and validates stakeholder requirements.

Conducts research and data gathering to analyze and determine appropriate solutions.

Manages entire Requirements process to include documentation preparation and presentation.

Functions as the primary product and target market SME (subject matter expert); understands competitive landscape from strategy to functional capabilities; defines the market and market segments; Identifies customer and prospect problems and market opportunities; builds, updates, and communicates the product line vision, strategy and 5-year road map for core stakeholders and for external consumption.

Drives the positioning and interaction of the product within the product portfolio and its integration with other products.

Defines and executes a distribution strategy for the product to achieve growth targets at desired margin, and through optimal resource consumption.

Sponsors innovation that helps achieve the strategic plan.

Responsible for comprehensive definition and cadence of product Release for a product line to achieve the strategic plan, by identifying and delivering requirements that increase market share and exploit ACI's breadth and depth of solutions across the payment processing lifecycle.

Clearly articulates the value proposition and positioning of the product.

Provides input to solution/product marketing for the go-to-market plan and supports the launch team.

Ensures all sales enablement tools are delivered to schedule, and the sales team is trained proficiently.

Drives market acceptance by evangelizing product to all stakeholders.

Monitors launch effectiveness.

Demonstrates ...