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.
OpenText enables the digital world by simplifying, transforming, and accelerating enterprise information needs, on premises or in the cloud. We embrace all things digital and are committed to being the Best Place to Work for our Employees in over 140 locations around the world.
We obsess over our customers to ensure they are wildly successful in embracing the Digital World. Our customers entrust us with their most important information, we need to be their most trusted partner. What we do, we do well. What we create, we do purposefully to impact the world. If you believe in this and are passionate about enabling the Digital World then to let OpenText turn your career vision into reality.
YOUR IMPACT
The OpenText Vertica provides a state-of-the-art Big Data Analytics platform that handles petabytes of data. It is a commercially successful, high performance, distributed database. Every industry is finding ways to benefit from data analytics. We continue to engineer our product to be flexible so that it supports all of them. Vertica is a recognized leader in analytics powering some of the world’s most data driven organizations like Uber, Wayfair, Intuit, Cerner, and more. Our columnar, MPP, distributed database delivers unprecedented speed, petabyte scale, with analytics and machine learning functions built into the core.
A Lead Product Manager, need to have a keen eye for gaps in consumer product offerings and an innovative mindset for filling them. Should be a highly skilled market analyst with a proven ability to strategize the full lifecycle of a product, from conception to release. We’re looking for a confident leader who can guide cross-functional teams in the creation of products that improve customer experience and grow market share.
What The Role Offers
- Define Data driven, analytics framework that measures efficiency of features, product market fit
- Collect and prioritize product requirements (from customers, competitors, partners, industry analysts, Sales, Business Development, Global Services, Customer Services and R&D)
- Synthesize and prioritizes across customers’ wants and needs, balancing them with company strategy and capabilities to define the product roadmap
- Develop and maintain Requirement Specifications and drive the iterative development process of achieving these high-level goals.
- Lead the Product Design function in their efforts to develop customer use cases, personas and scenarios, as well as user interface design
- Maintain day to day contact with the software development group to refine and revise Product Specifications and implementation details, based on an agile/iterative development process; encouraging the team to innovate within the boundaries of market segments, personas, goals, and problems to solve.
- Provide input to QA for creation of test plans and certification criteria.
- Assist the Documentation group in developing released documentation and on-line help.
- Assist Education Services group in developing a training program to educate customers and OpenText internal audiences on the details of the product/application.
- Evangelize product/applications at trade shows, webinars and user group meetings.
- Work with key customers to acquire and respond to product feedback for future product releases and communicate roadmap details.
- Understand product competitors and support development of competitive responses for sales and marketing.
- Serve as Subject Matter Expert (SME) on Services engagements working as part of a project delivery team.
- Support Sales/Customer Services/Global Services regarding critical escalations.
What You Need To Succeed
- 10+ years’ experience in defining and managing core products or content management applications, either through product management or equivalent activities
- Knowledge of Big Data databases and understanding of the requirements and implementation of the databases.
- Strong knowledge on SQL querying and understanding of System tables and User tables in a database.
- Understanding of integrations and data pipeline requirements of a big data database along with the performance demands of the integrations.
- Good understanding of security implementations of multi-tenant SAAS offerings.
- Experience on Object-Oriented Programming and Web Services.
- Experience with one of the public clouds, preferably AWS.
- Strong / deep understanding of OO design and associated modelling tools; proven experience and bias towards building reusable, resilient components which operate in 24/7 mission critical environments
- Strong working knowledge and experience with databases like: Oracle and SQL Server.
- Practical knowledge of agile/iterative development process is mandatory
- Good understanding of product specifications documentation
- Able to handle large-scale projects for concurrent initiatives
- Knowledge of software development lifecycle process and methodologies.
- Entrepreneurial and self-motivated, business oriented
- Strong leadership skills
- 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.
- Strong customer orientation and comfortable in sales situations.
- Skilled in presentations and discussions with business and technical staff.
- Experience in working in an international environment involving multiple development sites on various time zones.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent level
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.
