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Autodesk is the world's leading design software and digital content company, offering customers progressive business solutions through powerful technology products and services. We are quickly expanding as a leading provider of geospatial tools to develop a series of industry-specific applications and solutions. As Topobase product manager, you will be part of the team that is charged with developing and launching next generation solutions for electric, gas, water, waste water and several other industries.
The successful candidate must possess a unique blend of industry knowledge, business and technical savvy, and an attention for detail that is required to drive the product line forward.
You must enjoy spending time in the market to understand their problems and finding innovative solutions for the broader market.
You must be able to work with an engineering counterpart to define product release requirements. This includes close interaction with a variety of highly technical individuals and organizations, including: internal developers, managers, and directors, external system integrators, 3rd party application developers, and IT professionals from potential and existing customers.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
Market Analysis:
* Works with key customers and prospects to identify unsolved problems in the market and evaluates their urgency, pervasiveness, and value to the market and recommends innovative approaches to solving those problems.
* Performs both business and product competitive analysis documenting strengths and weaknesses and methods of positioning.
* Performs competitive market analysis to help guide product decisions.
Product Planning:
* Using input from different sources and partner groups in the corporation, the Product Manager delivers and distributes standard templates for all products and services within the Product Portfolio which provides the direction required for the development of all customer marketing messages.
* Gather data detailing customer process. Identify segments of the customer’s process that are absent or that are poorly addressed in our products.
Management:
* Key liaison with all groups involved in the operationalization of products including finance, Autodesk business center, product support, channel development and training.
* Management of relationships and programs with critical developers within key industries, in concordance with other corporate organizations.
* Manages product specific user groups in coordination with other corporate organizations.
Document Responsibility:
* Help create all necessary documentation as part of the ISD product planning process including MRD, Personas, opportunity assessment, and product plans of record.
* Defines, project manages, communicates to field teams, writes, edits, tests, and gets legal approval for PowerPoint presentations, training content, Questions and Answers (Q and A).
* Provides input for the creation of industry marketing deliverables, i.e.; solutions’ brochures, demo CDs, scripted demos, market research projects, syndicated research, industry analysis, industry concept/vision papers, customer surveys, editorials, etc.
Key Interfaces:
* Work with customers, prospects, and sales to help develop product strategy.
* Work with product marketing to define sales tools, value proposition, white papers, promotions and other marketing collateral.
* Facilitate communication with engineering, product management, business development, and team with respect to vertical market strategies and solutions development.
* Work with the development and product teams from other divisions within Autodesk to support adoption of the product.
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