Director Product Line Management NAGRA Mountain View

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Imagine. Innovate. Execute. Deliver. Nagra is looking for a creative, high energy leader to join the Product Management, Design and Market Development team. The Director of Product Management will define and manage across a crucial set of features that is fundamental to how users interact with their television content.
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The ideal candidate for this position will combine knowledge of web, device, and cloud services with kickass product management skills to help invent the future of TV. The candidate should be adept at both increasing the profitability of existing products, and creating new products to drive growth for the company. In order to successfully bring products to market, the candidate should be able to foster team camaraderie between members from cross functional teams, such as Architecture, Design, Engineering, Sales and Partnerships. The candidate should have a healthy sense of humor and a love for solving the most challenging problems within our portfolio of products.
Responsibilities
This position could grow into a management position. In which case, there will be a need to hire, train, motivate, and retain a world class Product Management team.
Manage, lead, invent, and articulate the vision, strategy, roadmap, and requirements for the evolution of our platform and service offerings.
Use technical background and knowledge of technology trends to drive roadmap and product planning processes;
Develop and deliver clear, marketable value propositions for these components that can be communicated via various marketing vehicles.
Collaborate with Sales and Market Development teams to conduct competitive and industry analysis
Provide product expertise by serving as key internal and external product spokesperson including:
Sales Support and Customer Presentations – Present, demo and sell our solutions to customers and partners and bring market feedback back in the team for further iteration and improvement
Manage RFI / RFP Responses – Organize responses to RFPs by working with a cross-functional team, including pre-sales, sales, engineering and operations
Work with a cross-functional team including engineering, human interface design, business development, and outside partners to determine what differentiated solutions our startup can deliver to the marketplace.
Do what it takes to ship our products.
Requirements / Profile
Bachelor's degree in CS or related field required. MBA or advanced degree desired.
Strong understanding of current device trends and emerging technologies in relevant areas
Experience working with, managing, and meeting aggressive deadlines.
Proven track record of being able to go from initial concept to shipping product
Ability to clearly manage and communicate priorities to various stakeholders across functions.
Demonstrable written, verbal and presentation skills
Strong technical knowledge and experience combined with a good mix of business savvy
Skills/Experience:
The ideal candidate will have 4+ years of experience in managing product managers, 10+ years of Product Management experience
Experience with delivering complex websites, products or platforms
Experience with prosumer and consumer technology products
TV/STB/OTT experience a plus
Start-up experience a plus
Personal Characteristics:
A passion to build world-class products, think big and accomplish great things
An assertive, entrepreneurial, get-it-done attitude and a strong sense of ownership
A healthy sense of humor
Travel:Travel will be required to attend both domestic and international customer visits, internal team meetings, conferences and other marketing events, with speaking opportunities.

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