Overview
As a product leader, we invite you to join Esri in shaping the future of products and technologies that connect customers with world-class GIS apps. This position will lead product management for MapViewer, a web-based mapping application that enables users to create, view, and share interactive maps and spatial data and is at the core of our ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise software. You will change, reinvent, and expand the way our customers use geographic data and empower them to use GIS across their organizations and to the world.
As someone with expertise in software product management, you have experience and demonstrated success in providing leadership, strategic direction, recognizing market opportunities, and sparking innovation. You prioritize customer interaction, serve as the product expert, build strong team relationships, and influence the development priorities of the product. Your style fosters collaboration and drives the product's growth, success, and value to the customer.
Responsibilities
- Lead by setting the vision, product definition, strategy, tactics, and priorities
- Establish, refine, and mature business models, pricing, and licensing by working closely with cross-functional teams and executive leadership
- Guide product features and capability development using key performance metrics and customer-product engagement patterns
- Monitor and synthesize customer requirement from various feedback channels and share with the development team to collaborate and prioritize on the product’s direction
- Communicate the vision of the MapViewer and other apps at conferences and events
- Collaborate with global business development, the partner team, distributors, and product marketing to develop and execute go-to-market strategies
- Maintain expert-level knowledge of current capabilities and the product roadmap
- Collaborate with Product Marketing teams generating a variety of marketing materials, such as social media content, public and internal communications about product updates and events, blogs, product web pages, and more
- Collaborate with Events and Marketing teams and other stakeholders to create content and messaging for major Esri events, such as Esri User Conference, Esri Developer Summit, Esri Partner Conference, and more
- Maintain written documentation of customer interviews and product requirements in alignment with existing Product Management processes and systems
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience in a technical or product-related role, such as engineering, product management, development, support, and more
- Communicate effectively verbally, in writing, and through presentations, to a diverse range of stakeholders from your team to customers to executive leadership in person and remote
- Accurately understand and document user feedback about business needs, feature capabilities, workflows, and values and represent them to software engineers in the form of actionable requirements and specific "problems to solve"
- Maintain the agility to balance passion for continuous improvement and user advocacy with the diligence and patience required to support extended or shifting implementation timelines
- Comfortable navigating highly ambiguous situations and relying on professional judgment without direct oversight
- Technical expertise, ideally with GIS, web services, and SaaS
- Active listening skills and curiosity about other people's work, experience, and perspective
- Ability to travel 10%-20% of the time to customer sites, conferences, trade shows, and other strategic meetings and events
- Bachelor's degree or higher in a field related to technology, GIS, or business
Recommended Qualifications
- Experience with ArcGIS software, GIS, Web GIS, and location-based content
- Experience and certifications with the in Pragmatic Marketing Framework
- Master's degree or higher in technology, GIS, business
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Total Rewards
Esri’s competitive total rewards strategy includes industry-leading health and welfare benefits: medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance for employees (and their families), 401(k) and profit-sharing programs, minimum accrual of 80 hours of vacation leave, twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year, and opportunities for personal and professional growth. Base salary is one component of our total rewards strategy. Compensation decisions and the base range for this role take into account many factors including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.
A reasonable estimate of the base salary range is
$86,528—$151,424 USD
The Company
At Esri, diversity is more than just a word on a map. When employees of different experiences, perspectives, backgrounds, and cultures come together, we are more innovative and ultimately a better place to work. We believe in having a diverse workforce that is unified under our mission of creating positive global change. We understand that diversity, equity, and inclusion is not a destination but an ongoing process. We are committed to the continuation of learning, growing, and changing our workplace so every employee can contribute to their life’s best work. Our commitment to these principles extends to the global communities we serve by creating positive change with GIS technology. For more information on Esri’s Racial Equity and Social Justice initiatives, please visit our website here.
If you don’t meet all of the preferred qualifications for this position, we encourage you to still apply!
Esri is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please note that only those inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this e-mail address.
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What We Do
As a leading location intelligence platform provider (Forrester Wave 2020), Esri empowers leaders with innovative tools to help create sustainable prosperity. Esri's customers drive digital transformation by embracing the power of location.
We pioneer problem solving with GIS to help you see what others can’t.
We build ArcGIS, the world’s most powerful mapping & spatial analytics software. ArcGIS software and apps combine mapping and data analytics to deliver location intelligence and meet digital transformation needs for organizations of all sizes.
