Date: 8/9/10
Who: INRIX
Position: Senior Product Manager
Where: Kirkland
What: Mobile has revolutionized the way traffic information and navigation services are delivered to consumers with impact across industry players. INRIX leads the industry in providing robust, yet flexible capabilities, tools, and applications that help providers differentiate, innovate, and accelerate their driving, navigation, time management, and search-related offerings amongst public sector, automotive, mobile, fleet, internet, and media in 22 countries, globally. We currently seek a Senior Product Manager for Mobile Products to identify, define, and champion new business and product strategies. The Senior Product Manager for Mobile Products focuses on competitive products, new technologies, new businesses, product profitability, and above all customers — with heavy influence on delivery, positioning, and sales tools for the various channels. The position reports to the Vice President of Product Management.
Responsibilities: Work closely with INRIX business development and product development teams to create value propositions and product opportunities that drive INRIX services adoption across mobile services, broader platforms, and various point applications. Drive INRIX-branded and private-label mobile applications innovation and adoption , including managing application store marketing, social networking to enhance customer interaction, and managing a competitive feature set roadmap for development. Identify the trends impacting the navigation and mobile services industry and determine the ‘fit’ for INRIX traffic information and services. Develop and make the business case for new functionality, investments, and technical partnerships. Lead a well orchestrated and predictable market requirements (MRD) process that defines the near and long term product strategy. Create customer and partner feedback loops where real customer requests are reflected in product plans. Communicate between product planning and product development to ensure that the company knows a product’s rationale, what customer scenarios the product addresses, and how the product adds to the INRIX bottom line. Support sales and pre-sales activities in the distribution channels including sales tool, demo, and proposal development as required. Drive product adoption and user engagement via INRIX’s distribution channels.
Requirements: The successful candidate has deep, practical understanding of the mobile, location-based services market with a track record providing information-based services products directly to mobile consumers and/or indirectly through partners and providers. The candidate is a highly motivated, self starter with a passion for disruptive mobile services that can become killer applications for everyday users in an environment with limited resources and shifting priorities. He or she is more motivated by thought leadership and impact than by team size and process. The preferred candidate has a proven ability to influence cross-functional teams, industry partners, customers, third party developers, and various policy makers to achieve strategic objectives.
Contact: Submit resume and cover letter to [email protected]
