Thursday, April 27, 2017

Director Product Management Platform Box Redwood City

Job Description: • 2-minute read •
Box is looking for an experienced Product leader to join our close-knit and start-up like team inside Box to help drive this change. The Director is a player-coach role and will serve as the driver for the vision and execution of cloud content management in applications built on the Box Platform. This role touches all parts of Box and will require you to engage with business and product leaders across the company, including at the executive level.
The key areas of ownership for this role are the content APIs and developer services that platform provides. The right candidate will be able to think beyond traditional boundaries and explore how content services like metadata, content transformation, and content discovery can enrich our customers’ applications and accelerate their ability to deliver more powerful and engaging experiences. This role requires a technical background, innovative design skills, and a collaborative team spirit. Strong candidates are highly analytical and have a strong business acumen. You must be able to operate at a strategic but also a hands on level, using your own products and empathizing with the developers that build on Box.

Responsibilities

Engage with customers and developers to understand their use cases, the types of apps they might build on Box, and the architecture of those apps
Understand the developer funnel and what the metrics are telling you about how our product is meeting the needs of developers and the success of the initiatives we are executing.
Investigate and propose areas of investment for our current product
Coach and mentor strong, technical PMs to develop and grow as product managers
Think API first and be a champion for both developer and our customer application end user experience
Collaborate with other product teams to ensure the platform services you own support the needs of both Platform developers and the Box application
Gathering industry and competitive research to inform our product strategy
Flesh out ideas into product specifications, gather feedback, and partner with engineering to build the product
Create and execute product roadmaps and go to market plans to ensure the success of the product
Support Sales Engineering, Customer Success, and Business Development through roadmap presentations for customers and partners


Required Skills

High integrity, team-focused approach: collaboration skills to build alliances across company and work with diverse teams
Strong technical aptitude and ability to understand best practices and application architecture around mobile and web development using APIs and client SDKs
Exceptional organizational and analytical skills
Strong developer and end user empathy
Design thinker with the ability to translate user feedback and behavioral data into requirements
Familiarity with designing and managing REST APIs
Responsive and action oriented person that gets stuff done
Entrepreneurial spirit and a thirst for learning
Excellent written and oral communication skills

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree; Masters or MBA would be a plus
At least 6 years experience in Product Management or highly relevant related roles with evident product manager chops
Demonstrated product leadership in previous role
Proven track record of delivery above and beyond and building amazing products that you are proud of
Bonus: Experience working in fast-paced environments and developing high-growth enterprise platform products

This position is located in our brand new Redwood City headquarters, just a few feet from Caltrain.
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