Location: Boston, MA

Join ALM Works if you're passionate about building great software products that help people be successful at their challenging jobs.

About Us

At ALM Works, we create software tools to empower project managers around the world. We provide our customers with better visibility and control, so they can work efficiently, deliver predictable results, see problems earlier, make better decisions and communicate with clarity and confidence to their teams, managers and clients.

Our flagship product Structure for Jira is one of the most popular apps on the Atlassian Marketplace. We have the privilege of serving over 4000 clients, many of which are among most well-known companies in the world: NASA, Google, Adobe, Intel, Sony, Disney, Netflix, Toyota, Twitter – to name just a few.

We are a small, bootstrapped company with a proven success record and ambitious plans. We rely strongly on our core values: talk and listen as a friend, passion to excel, own your work, stay positive.

We have offices in Newton, MA and in St. Petersburg, Russia, and we also support fully remote work.

About You

As we grow into a 100+ person company, we're taking our product management practices from an ad hoc, startup-like work environment to one with mature, robust systems. We're looking for an energetic, strategic leader to drive this effort and build a lasting system to consistently deliver value to our customers.

You will join our leadership team and report directly to the CEO. In this high-impact role, you will work closely with our Engineering and Business teams. You will use strategic thinking, your vision and your management skills to drive the success of the product management practice. You will also take an active part in each product's roadmap: You'll join and support each PM in doing hands-on work, then review the results and the product delivery.

You will:

• Hire and mentor the product management team.
• Drive a portfolio of products to meet aggressive growth goals.
• Define strategy and vision for the company as part of the leadership team.
• Work directly with customers and channel partners to understand their pain points, validate approaches, and evangelize solutions.
• Work with other company leaders to provide clear strategies and product priorities to generate market success. Collaboratively set priorities that balance needs across departments and stakeholders.
• Work closely with Marketing, Sales and senior management to ensure we are building the highest-value product for our customers while also addressing the largest possible market.
• Foster cross-functional communication and collaboration.

We expect a successful candidate to have:

• 7+ years' experience as a product manager/product leader including at least 3 years directly managing product managers who have delivered strong product/market results.
• Experience overseeing complex B2B/enterprise software such as ERP, CRM, Project Management systems.
• Strong analytical and data skills, plus the ability to be technically hands-on with sophisticated features.
• Channel experience with products sold at scale through partners or resellers, including the economics of channel pricing/packaging.
• Ability to navigate challenging, interdisciplinary product requirements in a competitive space, including strategic market analysis.
• Ability to hire and mentor product managers. Experience coaching PMs on translating customer needs and business opportunities into strategies, user stories, product specifications, and longer-term product roadmaps.
• Experience setting and managing quantifiable product metrics.
• Outstanding executive-level communication and influencing skills.

Our Offer

• Competitive compensation package.
• A highly collaborative culture based on honesty, respect, and kindness – highly rated on Glassdoor.
• An environment that welcomes initiative, creativity, and constructive feedback.
• Being a part of and leading a team of highly skilled, motivated professionals.
• The ability to work remotely and/or from one of our comfortable offices (post-COVID).
• Flexible work hours.
• Corporate retreats.
• Health insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• A bonus plan.
• 4 weeks paid vacation/PTO days.
• Stock option plan, 401k plan.

If you're unsure whether you're an ideal fit for this position but like what we're doing, send us a note anyway!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

If you are interested, please send us your CV and a link to your public profile.

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