Senior Product Manager

SAE Industry Technologies Consortia (ITC), Performance Review Institute (PRI) and SAE International (SAE), deliver shared solutions to industry's common challenges.

Join us and create a higher standard for a better world. The Senior Product Manager is a commercial product manager role that is responsible for supporting the strategic vision, development, and lifecycle management of innovative information, digital, and SaaS products that serve mobility and related industries. Acting as the voice of the customer and users, the Senior Product Manager collaborates with cross-functional teams to create annual product plans, define product roadmaps, lead go-to-market strategies, and ensure successful execution of features and services that address business opportunities and customer needs. The position plays a critical leadership role in product positioning, market analysis, pricing, and revenue forecasting while mentoring junior product managers in best practices and strategic thinking.

Essential Functions

• Drive the strategic direction of the product portfolio by utilizing an understanding of markets, mobility technology, content delivery formats, instructional design, and the software engineering/UX design processes.
• Drive revenue, margin, and growth goals through responsibility and accountability of strategy implementation.
• Ensures that the voice of the customer, user, and professions drive the product visioning, creation, and management process.
• Contributes to product positioning, messaging, introduction, maintenance, and/or obsolescence of features, media or delivery types, products, and services.
• Works with the product group and/or editors, define new features, media, content and product areas and implement thosefor a combination of information, digital, and SaaS products.
• Collaborate with product developers to ensure product vision and market-driven features are achieved.
• Conduct continuous environmental scanning to determine which industry technologies require a solution; Identify products, markets, or SMEs that represent business opportunities;
• Develop business cases with target audiences, market sizing, and revenue forecasts.
• Create product plan including go-to-market strategy, pricing, and marketing direction; Perform competitive analysis.
• Drives successful tradeoffs that affect cost, schedule, users, and how well the product works throughout the product life cycle.
• Provides product leadership from introduction through obsolescence, evaluates new technologies, articulates issues, and makes clear recommendations.
• Makes product positioning recommendations to management and counterparts.
• Drives and participates in user-experience research to identify obstacles, improve ease-of-use and customer satisfaction. Articulates research findings to managementtoimpact future product direction.
• Creates and delivers formal presentations and conducts group discussions on products for a broad range of audiences.
• Assists in the development and review of public relations and marketing communications materials such as collateral, press releases, and data sheets.
• Continually reviews product usage data, and other available and relevant product usage data and maintains an ongoing dialog with customers and internal stakeholders, particularly sales, on trends, risks and opportunities.
• Acts as a mentor to product managers and, in particular, enhance their familiarity with product management best practices and elevate their focus from the tactical to a more strategic framework.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in business management, information management, or similar field.
• 6+ years of experience with a minimum of 3 years in product management or instructional design/new product development.
• Experience working with cross functional teams to bring products to market
• A passion for being the voice of the customer, users, and professionals served in the product creation and management process.
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills.
• Exceptional presentation skills.
• Enthusiasm for developing global products for mobility industries.
• Financial acumen: ability to consume, create and interpret P&Ls.
• Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Solid diplomacy skills to drive alignment between competing business needs and objectives.
• MS Office proficient

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degreeis a plus.
• Familiarity with User experience-centered (UX) product development.
• Familiarity with Agile software development.

Working Conditions

• This role operates in a professional office environment and involves frequent collaboration with internal teams, external partners, and customers.
• Approximately 30% travel is required , including domestic and international trips, to meet with customers, conduct research, attend trade shows, and represent the organization at industry events.
• Work involves managing multiple projects under tight deadlines, requiring strong prioritization, adaptability, and problem-solving skills.
• The position requires extended periods of computer and office work, including virtual meetings and presentations.
• The Senior Product Manager will frequently engage in cross-functional teamwork across disciplines such as engineering, UX, sales, marketing, and external subject matter experts.
• Occasional evening or weekend work may be required to support global product launches, conferences, or customer engagements across different time zones

ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION

SAE IndustryTechnologies Consortia (SAE ITC) enables organizations to define and pilot best practices. SAE ITC industry stakeholders are able to work together to effectively solve common problems, achieve mutual benefit for industry, and create business value.

The Performance Review Institute (PRI) is the world leader in facilitating collaborative supply chain oversight programs, quality management systems approvals, and professional development in industries where safety and quality are shared values.

SAE International (SAEI) is a global organization serving the mobility sector, predominantly in the aerospace, automotive and commercial-vehicle industries, fostering innovation, and enabling engineering professionals. Since 1905, SAE has harnessed the collective wisdom of engineers around the world to create industry-enabling standards. Likewise, SAE members have advanced their knowledge and understanding of mobility engineering through our information resources, professional development, and networking.

Fullsight is a shared services group working across three affiliate organizations, SAE ITC, SAE International, and Performance Review Institute (PRI), uniformly delivering HR, IT, Legal, Customer Success, Finance, and Procurement services, which enables us to distribute resources across all parts of our businesses.

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