Director of Vertical Markets Product Management

Company: Zonar Systems
Location: Seattle
Posted on: January 16, 2022

Job Description:

Build, lead, motivate the vertical product management team and vertical product portfolio. Chart the course for our investment into a cutting edge, public cloud based, SaaS enabled, analytics driven, IoT platform. Bring back the pain points, use cases, and priorities of our key prospects & customers. Lead, recruit, and motivate a team of driven product management professionals. Help deliver our key business results around growth, margin, and user satisfaction with our vision of being the leading IoT platform for our discrete vertical markets.WHAT YOU WILL DOLead a team of PM professionals to drive customer obsessed IoT solutions for discrete vertical markets in transportation industryWork with Engineering and Horizontal Product Managers on evolving our portfolio visionWork with sales, vertical GM's & customer success to drive key resultsSpecifically drive the vision and execution of vertical solutions with a keen eye for product/market fitLead team to discover our next sets of solutions using Jobs to be Done or similar discovery methodologiesEvangelize the vision to our sales, marketing, and customer success teams, especially GM leaders for our vertical focusPresent our vision to customers and other industry leadersTackle complex customer and technical problems with elegant solutionsPresent progress and roadmap plans to company leadershipWHAT YOU WILL BRING TO THE TEAMRequired Skills and Experience5+ years product management experience2+ years managing product managers3+ years managing a cloud based platform with a SaaS business modelBachelors Degree required, MBA a plusExperience with public cloud, Web APIs, big data analytics, and IoTAbility to breakdown complex problems into meaningful, discrete steps to successAbility to drive change through strong relationships, communications excellence & data drive persuasionTravel 25%ABOUT USFounded in 2001, Zonar has pioneered smart fleet management technology by providing innovative technology that has changed fleet operations in the vocational, pupil and commercial trucking industries. With a unique focus on this field, the Company offers a complete suite of solutions and specialized platforms for our customers in multiple markets. Our patented, award-winning technology keeps fleet owners and managers connected to their fleets and drivers to dispatchers. Zonar has a proven history of continuous innovation on behalf of our customers, providing products that efficiently and easily track commercial fleets and assets, streamline reporting and significantly increasing safety while saving cost. Leveraging a portfolio of 150+ patents, we are building upon these data and related analytics services to create the next generation of software and services for the 15M target customers in the US alone.Headquartered in Seattle and majority-owned by technology company Continental, Zonar has a Technology Development Center in downtown Seattle and a distribution center outside of Atlanta. Our culture is based on ingenuity, leadership, teamwork, excellence, passion, integrity, and fun! Our company has grown to over 350 employees who are goal-oriented and fast-paced but understand the importance of having a healthy work life balance. This is an excellent opportunity to work for a fast-paced, growing, innovative company, make a big impact on a rapidly evolving space, and have fun along the way.

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