Product Manager

i2 Group, a Harris Computer company, is seeking a Product Manager to help shape the evolution of our product portfolio and deliver innovative solutions that meet our customers' current and emerging mission requirements. Product Managers at i2 work collaboratively across the business to define product strategy, prioritize investments, and ensure product development aligns with overall business objectives. The successful candidate will develop a deep understanding of customer use cases, industry trends, and market opportunities, providing critical input into product roadmaps while supporting go-to-market activities and stakeholder engagement.

Position & Responsibilities In performing this role your core duties and responsibilities will include, but will not be limited to:

• Responsible for facilitating cross-discipline resource deployment and prioritisation and works with other product managers to lead decisions and activities across divisions/units and/or with external stakeholders. They are accountable for key outcome metrics, including usage and user experience, market, and sales and operational metrics.
• Uses internal and external sources to develop market Points of View (POV), using primary (e.g. customers, prospects) and secondary research to maintain a robust outside-in perspective on market requirements. Analyses research on competitive landscape and market influencers (e.g. capabilities, GTM strategies). Articulates market dynamics to the broader team.
• Gathers market requirements to support design and validation of offering and recommends differentiation strategy and value proposition. Demos offering capabilities and drives stakeholder validation (e.g. beta programs), analysing feedback to identify and address gaps or opportunities. Leads translation of prioritized requirements to development plans for a differentiated offering. Evaluates digital readiness. Collaborates with development leaders and others to create offering releases and align offering design with business objectives. May help lead build/buy/partner decisions for offerings/features.
• Supports development of offering business plans (e.g. financial/resource capacity forecasting). Assists supervisor in defining effective routes to market, identifying key channels and potential gaps. Creates materials on pre- and post-launch direction and priorities for each discipline. Recommends key performance metrics.
• Enables broader offering team, maintaining readiness dashboards and providing technical/operational guidance. Negotiates contracts with development teams, drives collaboration to meet schedules, and manages delivery. Converts technical positioning into market messages. Confirms accuracy/accessibility of marketing communications. Collaborates with sales and marketing on GTM and channel enablement plans. Contributes to learning programs and enablement assets. Works with legal to create a clear, standard contract.
• Collects and analyses metrics and feeds back insights (including user analytics). Works with finance and pricing to analyse offering performance, gaps, and opportunities. Identifies and addresses weaknesses or GTM execution issues.
• Monitors sales process. Drives win/loss data collection and analysis.
• Other duties as assigned.

Objectives Success measures will be benchmarked against the following areas:

• Successfully identify new and innovative analytical tools and techniques which differentiate i2’s products.
• Successfully influence i2’s product roadmap to bring new tools and techniques to market in a timely manner. 

What we are looking for:

• Experience driving high growth businesses, new product introduction with strong focus on maintaining and developing credibility in the market.
• Strategic and creative thinker.
• Strong business and data analysis skills related to the Intelligence Analysis market.
• Experienced in building business plans/business case (strong spreadsheet skills a plus)
• Strong leadership skills to drive ideas and projects to completion across a highly matrixed organization
• Effectively manage priorities and a product backlog with familiarity in Agile development methodology.
• Enthusiastic, proactive work style.
• Analytical skills and prior roles managing a product or services portfolio, performing financial and market analysis.
• Extremely strong communication skills and comfortable presenting to large and small audiences.

Salary Range - $180 - $190