Lead Product Manager

OPENTEXT 
OpenText is a global leader in information management, where innovation, creativity, and collaboration are the key components of our corporate culture. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to partner with the most highly regarded companies in the world, tackle complex issues, and contribute to projects that shape the future of digital transformation.

OPENTEXT

OpenText is a global leader in information management, where innovation, creativity, and collaboration are the key components of our corporate culture. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to partner with the most highly regarded companies in the world, tackle complex issues, and contribute to projects that shape the future of digital transformation. As the Information Company, our mission at OpenText is to create software solutions and deliver services that redefine the future of digital. Be part of a winning team that leads the way in Enterprise Information Management.

YOUR IMPACT

OpenText is looking for a dynamic and driven Product Manager to work on the implementation of low code and pro code SaaS (software as a service) environments for the OpenText Cloud platform (OCP). Working with a team of experienced Developers, DevOps, and Operations folks, you will understand the market and lead the creation of the roadmap for the development teams. This is a tremendous opportunity to get in and shape the direction of the next generation of OpenText’s public cloud and its administrative functions that support both customers and OpenText employees daily.

What The Role Offers

• SaaS, Cloud and understanding what it takes to build SaaS products
• Understanding the market and with a curiosity to seek new and better techniques for getting things done
• Bringing new ideas to the development teams and helping them understand the direction in which you wish to take the product
• Evangelization of your ideas and products and services
• Working in an Agile manner and delivering consistent SaaS services with quality and performance
• Understanding the key competitors and how to win against them
• Discovering and validating market problems (both existing and future customers)
• Monitoring and incorporating market and industry innovations
• Seeking new market opportunities by leveraging OpenText’s EIM competence
• Defining user and buyer personas for individual products
• Conducting technology assessments
• Being customer focused
• Collaborating across teams, dealing with cross team roadmap dependencies
• Maintaining the product roadmap and represent it for the product internally and externally
• Writing, reviewing and prioritizing product requirements and use cases
• Working closely with product development leaders to ensure product is built to specifications
• Working with product managers and architects to define the work required for each product feature and then to ensure each release cycle is appropriately managed

What You Need To Succeed

• Be passionate about delivering SaaS applications that delight customers
• Innovative, self-motivated, business-oriented, and passionate about creating high value products for customers
• 8 – 10 years of overall experience in the software industry with minimum 4 years in product management.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Effective at influencing and convincing others into action and able to also be a good team member/player
• Able to understand and articulate customers’ viewpoints and perspectives, the problems, challenges, and opportunities customers face in their businesses and how customers use, or could use, the product(s) to address them.
• Goal driven; plans and manages toward achieving goals, anticipates problems, and issues and proactively drives their resolution.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills across all levels.

OpenText's efforts to build an inclusive work environment go beyond simply complying with applicable laws. Our Employment Equity and Diversity Policy provides direction on maintaining a working environment that is inclusive of everyone, regardless of culture, national origin, race, color, gender, gender identification, sexual orientation, family status, age, veteran status, disability, religion, or other basis protected by applicable laws.

If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please contact us athr@opentext.com. Our proactive approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and personal growth, enriching OpenText's vibrant workplace.