Product Manager Visual Systems

Perform Product Management and engineering tasks that include technical planning, cost and risk assessment, system integration, verification, and validation. Analyses are conducted at all system levels, requirement analysis, risk analysis, functional analysis, timeline analysis, detailed trade studies, design, testing, installation, integration, operation, and customer support. Focus on market, customer, and user requirements; developing and synthesizing them to relevant products; and all levels of communication, including customer, market, industry, executive management, and development/program teams.

• Communicates product vision including customers and market from the highest levels of executive leadership to development and implementation teams. Investigates, selects, and drives the continual development of products. Considers numerous factors such as intended demographic, products offered by the competition, and how well the product fits with the company's business model and strategy.
• Fully understands Product user requirements and value to customer in order to positively impact Product Management.
• Recognized as an expert and or leader, guides, troubleshoots; has strategic focus; applies intensive and diversified knowledge and skill. Demonstrates knowledge of trends in field; leads in developing new processes and or capabilities and high impact projects. Uses advanced techniques; modifies or extends theories, precepts, and practices of own field and related disciplines. Provides training to department members when required.
• Has technical responsibility for interpreting, organizing, executing, and coordinating assignments. Plans and develops products with significant company impact. Acts independently on technical matters and assignments in terms of general objectives and limits.
• Interacts frequently with management, technical staff, business development, marketing, and outside customer contacts to develop and implement growth opportunities within and between organizations.
• Communicantes effectively with Teammates as required about assignments and results.
• Must be a team player, able to work comfortably and effectively with team members, program stakeholders, and senior personnel using strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Controls the direction of the product, its roadmap and its features. Manages a roadmap backlog and sprint planning with development team.
• Travel is required for customer interfacing, technical interchange meetings, on-site technical support, product demonstrations, and other special events.
• Contributes to reports and apprises management of technical progress.
• Determines customers' needs by specifying the research needed to obtain market information.
• Recommends the nature and scope of present and future product lines by reviewing product specifications and requirements; appraising new product ideas and or product or packaging changes.
• Assesses market competition by comparing the company's product to competitors' products
• Provides source data for product line communications by defining product marketing communication objectives.
• Obtains product market share to develop product sales strategies.
• Assesses product market data.
• Facilitates technology insertion and implementation plannng related to Supply Chain and Production.
• Brings new products to market by analyzing proposed product requirements and product development programs; preparing return-on-investment analyses; establishing time schedules with engineering and manufacturing.
• Introduces and markets new products by developing time-integrated.
• Remains current on state of the art technologies through review of technical papers, periodicals, and attending meetings and conferences.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Product Management or other applicable technical field; and 10 years of relevant experience in Product Management, Systems Engineering and or Subject Matter Expertise. Requires specialized knowledge and or ability to accomplish highly advanced and complex product management tasks. While knowledge and expertise for this level usually results from internal progressive experience, selection for this position is based on the demonstrated ability of the person to successfully fulfill the requirements listed as well as availability of work at this level.

• Performs without assistance; recognized as a resource to others: able to translate complex nuances to others; able to improve processes; focus on broad issues.

• Product Management, Systems engineering, and or simulation engineering
• Project Management
• long term vision and business strategy
• Marketing
• Compliance and risk matrix generation
• Acceptance test procedure generation
• System architecture and design
• Process design and improvement
• Technical requirement assessment
• Technical writing
• Analyzing trade studies to guide product and process selection
• Oversee hardware/software integration
• Product testing
• Contingency planning
• Configuration management
• Flight simulation or game development
• Fluency in English, through both verbal and written communications; Able to read, analyze, and interpret general business documents, technical procedures, or governmental regulations; Able to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals; Able to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients and customers. Able to present to all levels of organizations internally and externally.
• Able to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations; Able to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis.
• Able to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; Able to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of: C/C++/C#, 3D graphics programming, OpenGL, GPU programming, Windows programming.
• Valid Drivers License, where applicable.

The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met and or encountered by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit. The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.