Product Manager

Founded in 1986, KPA is a leading provider of Environment, Health & Safety (EHS), and Workforce Compliance software and consulting services. We succeed if our clients can send their employees home at night, having not experienced a workplace accident or injury. The combination of software, consulting, and training helps clients identify, remedy, and prevent workplace safety and compliance problems so they can focus on what’s important – their core business. 

Help us help keep people safe and businesses working efficiently. Named as one of Built In Colorado’s Best Places to Work for four years in a row, KPA is made up of talented individuals working together for the greater good. We’re here to help our clients build safe, thriving organizations, and we’re looking for people with a common goal to help us do it. 

Position Description: 

KPA is looking for a product manager who will be the eyes and ears of the market and the voice of the customer for our highly configurable, user focused EHS management software - KPA Flex. You will play a central role in identifying market needs and developing solutions that solve key-business problems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify market opportunities and determine the corresponding business gaps available by addressing those needs.
• Work with the Product Director to understand and define the product market, strengths, weaknesses, competitive landscape
• Manage the entire product life cycle, from planning through development, launch, and retirement phases.
• Create, maintain, and communicate the Product Roadmaps with stakeholders.
• Define product requirements
• Work with the engineering and design team to build high-value, customer-centric solutions.
• Monitor & adapt to key product success metrics
• Make data-driven decisions regarding product development priorities while balancing business needs and technical realities.
• Assist in the creation of the training and tools necessary to ensure the Sales, and Customer Success are educated on the feature/functionality of products
• Collaborate with the marketing team to develop the right positioning and messaging that resonates with our target buyer personas.
• Understand and support our sales and customer success teams, enabling them to understand the problems the product solves for our buyers and users.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Ideally 3+ years of product management experience with a record of successfully delivering B2B SaaS products to market.
• Experience in industries such as Manufacturing, Construction, Utilities (Energy or Oil/Gas), Transportation, or others governed by EHS regulations.
• Strong skills in research, documentation, and stakeholder engagement
• Experience with agile development and sprint execution
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to audiences needing to understand vision, strategy and execution.

Preferred Skills & Qualifications:

• Scrum Product Owner Certification
• Pragmatic Institute Certified (PMC)
• Experience in Environment, Health, Safety, and Sustainability
• Strong presentation skills, including experience presenting to executive leadership and large audiences

Compensation:

• Annual base salary range between $105-120k
• Bonus potential of 10% annually

Physical Requirements:

• Physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

- Working at a computer typing and view a screen - Constantly

- Visual Recognition - Constantly

- Hearing/Listening - Frequently

- Travel - Seldom

Location

• KPA is headquartered in Westminster, CO just outside of Denver, with a secondary office in Tigard, OR. We operate in a hybrid, remote-first work model where local candidates can go into the office for in person collaboration, team meetings, or events. This position can sit 100% remote. There may be a rare occation when you are asked to travel to Colorado or Oregon, however this would be very infrequently, if at all.

Don’t meet every job requirement? At KPA, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply unless they meet every requirement. If you’re excited about the role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification, we still encourage you to apply! You might just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

As a growing company KPA values its employees by supporting them with a full benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible Spending Accounts, PTO, Paid and Floating Holidays, 401k with Company match and immediate vesting, Company-funded Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Programs, and Pet Insurance.

About KPA

Founded in 1986, KPA is a leading provider of Environment, Health & Safety (EHS), and Workforce Compliance software and consulting services. KPA solutions help clients identify, remedy, and prevent workplace safety and compliance problems across their entire enterprise. The combination of KPA's software, consulting services, and award-winning training content helps organizations minimize risk so they can focus on what's important—their core business.

We are passionate about what we do, how we do and why we do it. Our culture is driven by the KPA core values – Integrity, Helpful, Excellence, Agile, Respectful, and Teamwork. Success will be determined by the capabilities, energy and character of the people we bring into our organization and the performance they achieve.

KPA, with headquarters in Colorado and teammates throughout the United Sates, is recognized as one of Colorado's Best Places to Work and Best Midsize Places to Work by Built In Colorado for 2023.

“To be ranked so highly in Built In’s Best Places to Work Awards is a recognition of KPA’s dedication to creating a team of outstanding professionals and our efforts to create a positive and safe workplace culture for everyone,” said Chris Fanning, KPA President and CEO. “I believe we’ve developed a high caliber organization comprised of passionate people who are experts in their respective fields and deliver great value to our customers.”

KPA is committed to providing equal opportunity in all of our employment practices, including selection, hiring, promotion, transfer, and compensation, to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, religion, religious dress/grooming, color, ethnicity, sex (including sex stereotyping), sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, creed, uniform service member status, military or veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, breast-feeding and/or pregnancy-related conditions, age, protected medical condition, leave status, physical or mental disability, genetic characteristics, or any other legally-protected status in accordance with the requirements of all federal, state and local laws. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.

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