Sr. Product Manager - Microsoft
SailPoint, the industry leader in Identity Security software, is actively looking for a Senior Product Manager to join our Connectors and Integrations Product Team.
About the Job
The Senior Product Manager - Applications - Microsoft is a strategic and unique position at SailPoint. Microsoft is a strategic investment for many SailPoint customers. This position will be responsible for driving new and existing integrations with Microsoft while working collaboratively across SailPoint product management. This position requires strong product management skills and leadership that balance market needs with SailPoint strategy and heavily relies upon management and communication skills. Additionally, a technical understanding of enterprise software, customer IT environments and rapidly evolving security and compliance technologies is critical. The Senior Product Manager must be comfortable working closely with customers to evangelize the product vision and roadmap, work with engineering and services to optimize roadmap execution with successful service delivery and with marketing and sales to achieve customer growth. Consistent communication with prospects, customers and partners is expected to have a continuous feedback loop into the backlog and vision.
Responsibilities
- Drive product advancement, including those features that cross product boundaries, through independent and collaborative customer research, deployment success, competitive positioning and market analysis
- Identify opportunities for new product offerings based on both latent and expressed customer needs or industry trends
- Work closely with engineering and user experience to define the business problem to be solved and collaborate on the solution delivered in the software
- Work with other internal stakeholders to understand their suggestions for advancing the product
- Collaborate with other product teams to define business problems and possible solutions
- Help develop, prioritize and manage the product roadmap in a lean / agile environment
- Evangelize the SailPoint strategy at external events and on customer calls, understand customer goals and objectives plans, and discuss how those fit into the SailPoint strategy
- Support go-to-market activities with marketing, sales, sales engineers, and support
- Performs competitive and industry research in order to understand and identify trends
Requirements
- 5-7+ years of experience in a product management role
- Background and experience with a variety of Microsoft products
- Passion for identifying market needs and clarifying customer problems
- Demonstrated success in working with engineering teams to plan, develop, refine, and launch successful security software products
- Experience prioritizing projects, building backlogs, and defining product roadmaps
- Experience collaborating with product marketing and corporate marketing to deliver content, drive thought-leadership and demand-gen programs
- Experience presenting product roadmaps and vision
- Experience delivering support to field and channel sales organizations
- Excellent interpersonal, facilitation, and communication skills
- BA/BS in business or technical field required. MBA is a plus
- This position requires approximately 20% travel
SailPoint is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome everyone to our team. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.