Principal Technical Product Manager

LivePerson (NASDAQ: LPSN) is the global leader in enterprise conversations. Hundreds of the world’s leading brands — including HSBC, Chipotle, and Virgin Media — use our award-winning Conversational Cloud platform to connect with millions of consumers. We power nearly a billion conversational interactions every month, providing a uniquely rich data set and safety tools to unlock the power of Conversational AI for better customer experiences.
At LivePerson, we foster an inclusive workplace culture that encourages meaningful connection, collaboration, and innovation. Everyone is invited to ask questions, actively seek new ways to achieve success, nd reach their full potential. We are continually looking for ways to improve our products and make things better. This means spotting opportunities, solving ambiguities, and seeking effective solutions to the problems our customers care about.

Overview:

You will join Liveperson’s Global Product organization as the Principal Technical Product Manager for critical Conversational AI components within Conversation Builder, Liveperson’s Bot Building suite. 

Responsibilities:

• Product Strategy: Develop and articulate a clear product vision and strategy for brand experiences in Conversational AI, aligned with the company's overall goals and market trends.
• Feature Prioritization: Define, review feature requests, and prioritize product features and enhancements based on customer feedback, market research, competitive analysis, and business objectives.
• Roadmap Planning: Create and maintain a detailed product roadmap, outlining key milestones, dependencies, and timelines for delivering new features and capabilities.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with Engineering, Design, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success teams to ensure alignment and effective execution of the product roadmap.
• Responsible for creating and consolidating program timelines, ensuring each vertical team understands the overall project objectives and timeline and how their deliverables impact the overall program, and communicating overall progress with external stakeholders, including leadership leaders from enterprise customers
•  Champion a user-centric approach to product development, working closely with Design teams to create intuitive and engaging user experiences that delight customers.
• Market Analysis: Conduct ongoing market research and analysis to identify emerging trends, customer needs, and competitive threats. Use insights to inform product strategy and decision-making.
• Customer Engagement: Engage directly with customers to gather feedback, validate ideas, understand pain points, and translate insights into actionable product improvements.
• Go-to-Market Strategy: Collaborate with Marketing and Sales teams to develop and enhance go-to-market strategies, messaging, and collateral to drive product adoption and revenue growth.
• Performance Tracking: Define key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to measure the success and impact of product initiatives and use data to iterate and optimize product performance.
• Thought Leadership: Stay informed about industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies in Conversational AI and brand experiences, and share knowledge and insights with the broader team.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field (MBA preferred).
• 10+ years of experience in product management, with a track record of successfully launching and managing SaaS products or platforms.
• Preferred but not required experiences building customer engagement platform and products in digital messaging space
• Proven ability to develop and execute product strategy, prioritize features, and drive product roadmap planning in a fast-paced, agile environment.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to gather and interpret data, identify trends, and make data-driven decisions.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills, with the ability to influence and inspire cross-functional teams as well as leading meeting with leadership audience from customer side
• Experience working with enterprise customers and a strong customer focus, with the ability to empathize with customer needs and pain points.
• Passion for innovation, creativity, and solving complex problems to deliver impactful solutions.

Benefits: 

• Health: Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Time away: Vacation and holidays
• Development: Generous tuition reimbursement and access to internal professional development resources.
• Equal opportunity employer

Why You’ll Love Working Here
As leaders in enterprise customer conversations, we celebrate diversity, empowering our team to forge impactful conversations globally. LivePerson is a place where uniqueness is embraced, growth is constant, and everyone is empowered to create their own success. And, we're very proud to have earned recognition from Fast Company, Newsweek, and BuiltIn for being a top innovative, beloved, and remote-friendly workplace.
Belonging At LivePerson
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law.
We are committed to the accessibility needs of applicants and employees. We provide reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities. Applicants with a disability who require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should inform their recruiting contact upon initial connection.

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