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Description & Qualifications
Description
Here at UKG, our Engineering, Product, Innovation, and Cloud teams (or EPIC), are the driving force behind our cutting-edge technology. These UKrewers are dedicated to delivering best-in-class solutions that transform how our customers work. With a passion for excellence, EPIC continuously pushes boundaries and strives to make a real impact in the world.
We are looking for a Lead Product Manager to manage UKG's market leading workforce management data collection products. A background managing embedded hardware products is required, and familiarity and prior experience with biometric technologies and workforce management is strongly desired.
You will work within a collaborative team and manage a dynamic environment with rapidly changing priorities, guiding individuals with different personalities and styles to a common outcome. You will lead development teams but without management authority. Your effective communication, organizational and problem-solving skills and a customer first mindset will serve you well.
About the role:
• Responsible for managing the technology lifecycle of new products, features and enhancements through conceptualization, requirements gathering, product specification, implementation review, and release.
• Gathers data and evaluates new product ideas for financial and market potential.
• Works with product planning and development on new products, current product enhancements, and ensuring product differentiation in the market.
• Defines product features of releases and represents business requirements to the technology organization through product requirement documents.
• Supports engineering in resolving functional questions throughout the development effort.
• Defines and manages vehicles for collecting customer feedback.
• Participates with product marketing and service planning in internal and external product launch.
• Evaluates business opportunities to optimize the product portfolio through analysis and understanding of targeted markets, market trends, customer business issues, and the competitive landscape.
• Participates in sales and service training.
• Works with marketing, learning, product support, presales, and enablement teams in positioning products, designing demos, developing training courses, etc.
• Acts as primary point of contact and guides a cross-functional team to ensure whole-product readiness.
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Qualifications
About you,
Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business Administration, or related discipline
• 5 or more years' experience in product management, including management of embedded hardware products
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally
• This position will work from our Lowell, MA headquarters.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Prior experience managing biometric products and technologies
• Functional and technical knowledge of Workforce Management and Human Capital Management
EEO Statement
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Ultimate Kronos Group is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment. All qualified applicants will receive considerations for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, genetic information, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, veteran status, and any other legally protected status under federal, state, or local anti-discrimination laws.
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