Product Manager #596397 CA-Remote

Product Manager

CA-Remote

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Our fast-paced and collaborative environment inspires us to create, think, and challenge each other in ways that make our solutions and our teams better. Whether you’re interested in engineering or development, marketing or sales, or something else – if this sounds like you, then we’d love to hear from you!

We are headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with offices in the US, Canada, and India.

Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTION

This is a role built for a dynamic individual that has a passion for the big picture vision and the ability to roll up their sleeves to get into the details. Vertafore Canada, a division of Vertafore, primarily serves the Canadian Independent Broker distribution channel. In this role, you will help Vertafore Canada, define, analyze, scope, build and launch new solutions for the Canadian market.

You’ll work closely with internal and external stakeholders, including insurance brokers and carriers, to understand roadmap goals/strategy and distill high-level requirements user stories that enable development teams to understand what problems need to be solved to create the best solution. As a Product Manager, you will also prioritize the development backlog and plan and sequence the work appropriately. As features are delivered, you’ll work closely with our internal teams to ensure new features can be adopted.

Our culture fosters collaboration, innovation, integrity, mentorship, commitment to success and FUN. Our managers are dedicated to growing their people and offering an opportunity that allows you to make an impact in your career.

Core Requirements and Responsibilities:

Essential job functions included but are not limited to the following:

· Drive the full product development cycle from idea to delivery, demonstrating strong leadership skills and ability to execute initiatives to completion

· Facilitate and lead meetings with cross-functional teams, including insurance brokers, carriers and other external stakeholders, to get the clarity needed to document feature requirements to appropriate level of detail

· Support Product Owners to clarify user stories acceptance criteria where needed

· Collaborate with product management colleagues, development, and user experience design staff to lead on time, successful scope definition and feature deployment

· Design and deliver product training for your new solutions to internal cross functional teams

· Partner with Sales & Marketing as the subject matter expert for your assigned products

· Research and respond to questions from cross functional teams

· Self-starter able to take ownership with little direction

· Willingness to embrace ambiguity

Skills & Requirements

Qualifications:

· Proven track record translating user research and customer feedback into detailed features

· Strong experience working on highly technical & integrated products

· Clearly communicate and defend their ideas strategies

· Have a passion for product quality and a user centric approach

· Are driven to improve, personally and professionally

· Operate best in a fast-paced and flexible work environment

· 3+ years’ experience, preferably with enterprise solutions and integrations in a SaaS environment

· Share best practices that inspire everyone around them to raise the bar

· Have experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

· Exceptional ability to take detailed notes electronically in real time

· Ability to serve as both product manager/owner and product evangelist

· Self-starter able to take ownership with little direction

· Pragmatic Product Manager Certification is an asset

· Experience in P&C Insurance is an asset

· Bilingual, English & French, is an asset

Additional Requirements and Details:

· Travel required up to 20% of the time.

· WFH with stable internet as needed, with an option to work in our Montreal office if local.

· Occasional lifting and/or moving up to 10 pounds.

· Frequent repetitive hand and arm movements required to operate a computer.

· Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision (working on a computer, etc.).

· Frequent sitting and/or standing.

Qualifications

Why Vertafore is the place for you: *US Only

The opportunity to work in a space where modern technology meets a stable and vital industry
Vertafore is a Flexible First working environment which allows team members to work from home as often as you’d like, while using our offices as a place for collaboration, community, and teambuilding. There are times you may be asked to come into an office and/or travel for specific meetings for a specific business purpose and this varies by job responsibilities.
Medical, vision & dental plans
- PPO & high-deductible options
Health Savings Account & Flexible Spending Accounts Options:
- Health Care FSA
- Dental & Vision FSA
- Dependent Care FSA
- Commuter FSA
Life, AD&D (Basic & Supplemental), and Disability
401(k) Retirement Savings Plain & Employer Match
Supplemental Plans - Pet insurance, Hospital Indemnity, and Accident Insurance
Parental Leave & Adoption Assistance
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Education & Legal Assistance
Additional programs - Tuition Reimbursement, Employee Referral, Internal Recognition, and Wellness
Commuter Benefits (Denver)

The selected candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the job responsibilities, duties, skill, or working conditions. In addition, this document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.

Vertafore strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.

The Professional Services (PS) and Customer Success (CX) bonus plans are a quarterly monetary bonus plan based upon individual and practice performance against specific business metrics. Eligibility is determined by several factors including: start date, good standing in the company, and actives status at time of payout.

The Vertafore Incentive Plan (VIP) is an annual monetary bonus for eligible employees based on both individual and company performance. Eligibility is determined by several factors including: start date, good standing in the company, and actives status at time of payout.

Commission plans are tailored to each sales role but common components include quota, MBO's and ABPMs. Salespeople receive their formal compensation plan within 30 days of hire.

Vertafore is a drug free workplace and conducts preemployment drug and background screenings.

We do not accept resumes from agencies, headhunters or other suppliers who have not signed a formal agreement with us.

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