Product Strategist

Submitted by BVJobs on Wed, 07/16/2008 - 5:28pm.
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Opportunity Information
Job location:
Austin, TX
Job type:
Full-time
Job description:

Location: Austin, TX
Job Type: Full-time, salaried with benefits, and stock options
Reports To: Director of Product Management

About this Position
Interested in playing a large role in a small team responsible for building and managing innovative online word of mouth marketing solutions? This position is ideal for someone with a pre-sales and product management background and the desire to work very closely with prospects.

This is a unique opportunity for a motivated, self-starter to become an expert in the emerging social commerce domain while growing their product management and sales skills within a high–energy, dynamic environment. We are looking for an experienced individual to pave the way for this new role.

In this role, you will be responsible for architecting best-fit solutions from Bazaarvoice’s suite of products and services for prospects with specialized needs through close coordination with the best and brightest in marketing, sales, development, business development, and client services. You will be an early client facing member of an experienced Product Management team that is accountable for researching, planning, requirements, deployment, performance analysis, sales communication, collateral content creation, competitive analysis, and other product launch activities.

Job Overview

* Be an expert across all Bazaarvoice products and services
* Communicate and evangelize feature and product roadmaps with prospects
* Attend industry events to represent and evangelize Bazaarvoice products and services
* Field sales and prospect questions about products and services
* Architect solutions for clients with specialized needs
* Document gaps by soliciting and validating requirements that define how to meet these specialized needs
* Drive our product management process to address these gaps
* Align timelines and cost within the sales team contract process
* Provide direction to product management roadmap process leveraging your unique vantage point of prospect needs and the market place

Qualifications:

Job Requirements

* 2-5 years experience in pre-sales or product management
* Prefer BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or MBA with product management specialization
* Superior interpersonal communication, relationship building, and influence skills required
* UI design/mock-up and requirements management skills required
* Product management and pre-sales experience with Software as a Service (SAS) model a plus
* Positive, self-starter attitude and desire to exceed client expectations at every opportunity
* Attention to detail and absolute focus on quality of work
* Superior communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills; meeting facilitation and strong follow-up
* Ability to execute a number of parallel tasks and work with cross-functional teams on a day-to-day basis

Company / Agency Information
Company / Agency:
Bazaarvoice
Website:

www.bazaarvoice.com

Company Background:

Bazaarvoice offers outsourced technology, services, analytics, and expertise to help companies enhance the online shopping experience with social commerce applications that drive sales. Bazaarvoice Ratings & Reviews™ and Ask & Answer™ deliver immediate success by minimizing implementation risk and maximizing the strategic impact of user-generated review content through complete customization, deep integration, community management, advanced analytics, search engine optimization, and syndication across the Web and to offline channels.

Bazaarvoice was named to the 2007 Red Herring Global 100 and 2006 Red Herring Top 100 lists and received the 2006 ClickZ Marketing Innovation of the Year award. Bazaarvoice currently serves over 160 eCommerce leaders including Bass Pro Shops, Dell, Macy’s, Office Depot, Inc., Overstock.com, PETCO, QVC, Sears, and ZipRealty. The company has headquarters in Austin, TX and offices in London, UK.

Bazaarvoice is building an elite team of passionate technologists and client services professionals to develop and support an entirely new class of hosted software applications and managed services.

Bazaarvoice, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Bazaarvoice does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, veteran status, the presence of any disability, or other legally protected status.

Resume Submission Instructions

To apply, please send cover letter and resume to jobs@bazaarvoice.com with the subject line, "Product Strategist - D6".

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Product Strategist