Life Fitness
Product Manager
Life Fitness, Franklin Park, Illinois, United States, 60398
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Join us as we empower the world to work out, creating healthier lives together.
About the Opportunity:
The Product Manager will report to the Product Director, Consoles and will be primarily responsible for managing the console hardware initiatives, roadmap and priorities. They will be market-facing and required to have a deep understand the market landscape, drive market research to validate product direction and collaborate with cross-functional teams to execute on product definition. This position will work in a team environment interacting regularly with product managers, engineering teams and user experience / interface team.
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Define the 3-year market facing console software vision and roadmap
- Drive planning and roadmap refinement sessions with business and engineering teams
- Facilitate customer-based market research to validate requirements
- Collaborate with user experience team on software requirements and general experience expectations per market research
- Collaborate with engineering team to manage and prioritize requests and enhancements
- Regularly communicate with global marketing teams on roadmap
- For individual projects, work collaboratively with product managers to link positioning to hardware and software feature set
- For specific projects, provide global marketing teams product strategy information to properly launch to the market including competitive analysis, research/insights, positioning, target markets, and feature/benefit details
- Work with sales enablement and marketing to effectively train the sales force on console technologies
- Work with service support teams on training, documentation and troubleshooting procedures
- Work with software team to manage major software bugs or failures, act as lead for organizing and driving corrective action, and communication to the service, sales, customer and internal stakeholders
- Work with key customer accounts on console hardware related requests
- Monitor and report major trends and updates in digital fitness
- Monitor and report out on console analytics to drive insights for new feature development
- Present report outs and gate review materials to executive leadership
QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum of 5+ years\' experience in traditional product management with preferred experience working with technology related products
- Familiarity with agile methodologies and design sprints desired
- Experience developing and defining product roadmaps
- Experience writing user stories
- Experience in leading cross-functional teams
- Ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously
- Willingness to travel up to 5% of the time, including international travel
- Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project)
Want to take the next step in your career?
Life Fitness takes pride in our talented employees and believes in providing opportunities for further growth and advancement. We encourage you to test your strengths, push your limits, and unleash your potential. If you feel the position is right for you, we invite you to apply. We\'ll work with you closely to support you throughout the hiring process. If your CV/ resume shows that your skills and experience have synergy with the job description, then we\'ll hop on a call to get to know you and your experience and discuss the position in more detail. If it\'s not the right opportunity this time, we\'ll always let you know.
Life Fitness is an affirmative action-equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants, including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans, are encouraged to apply. Life Fitness complies with all applicable f deral, state, and local laws regarding recruitment and hiring. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
There continues to be a significant increase in phishing attempts across all industries where fraudsters are impersonating real employees and sending fictitious job offers to applicants in a scheme to obtain sensitive information. Please note that Life Fitness will never ask for your financial information at any part of the interview process, including the post-offer stage, and will only correspond through \"@lifefitness.com\" or \"@indoorcycling.com\" domain email addresses or \"lifefitness@myworkday.com\" for U.S. opportunities.
Life Fitness does not accept applications, inquiries or solicitations from unapproved staffing agencies or vendors.
Join us as we empower the world to work out, creating healthier lives together.
About the Opportunity:
The Product Manager will report to the Product Director, Consoles and will be primarily responsible for managing the console hardware initiatives, roadmap and priorities. They will be market-facing and required to have a deep understand the market landscape, drive market research to validate product direction and collaborate with cross-functional teams to execute on product definition. This position will work in a team environment interacting regularly with product managers, engineering teams and user experience / interface team.
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Define the 3-year market facing console software vision and roadmap
- Drive planning and roadmap refinement sessions with business and engineering teams
- Facilitate customer-based market research to validate requirements
- Collaborate with user experience team on software requirements and general experience expectations per market research
- Collaborate with engineering team to manage and prioritize requests and enhancements
- Regularly communicate with global marketing teams on roadmap
- For individual projects, work collaboratively with product managers to link positioning to hardware and software feature set
- For specific projects, provide global marketing teams product strategy information to properly launch to the market including competitive analysis, research/insights, positioning, target markets, and feature/benefit details
- Work with sales enablement and marketing to effectively train the sales force on console technologies
- Work with service support teams on training, documentation and troubleshooting procedures
- Work with software team to manage major software bugs or failures, act as lead for organizing and driving corrective action, and communication to the service, sales, customer and internal stakeholders
- Work with key customer accounts on console hardware related requests
- Monitor and report major trends and updates in digital fitness
- Monitor and report out on console analytics to drive insights for new feature development
- Present report outs and gate review materials to executive leadership
QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum of 5+ years\' experience in traditional product management with preferred experience working with technology related products
- Familiarity with agile methodologies and design sprints desired
- Experience developing and defining product roadmaps
- Experience writing user stories
- Experience in leading cross-functional teams
- Ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously
- Willingness to travel up to 5% of the time, including international travel
- Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project)
Want to take the next step in your career?
Life Fitness takes pride in our talented employees and believes in providing opportunities for further growth and advancement. We encourage you to test your strengths, push your limits, and unleash your potential. If you feel the position is right for you, we invite you to apply. We\'ll work with you closely to support you throughout the hiring process. If your CV/ resume shows that your skills and experience have synergy with the job description, then we\'ll hop on a call to get to know you and your experience and discuss the position in more detail. If it\'s not the right opportunity this time, we\'ll always let you know.
Life Fitness is an affirmative action-equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants, including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans, are encouraged to apply. Life Fitness complies with all applicable f deral, state, and local laws regarding recruitment and hiring. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
There continues to be a significant increase in phishing attempts across all industries where fraudsters are impersonating real employees and sending fictitious job offers to applicants in a scheme to obtain sensitive information. Please note that Life Fitness will never ask for your financial information at any part of the interview process, including the post-offer stage, and will only correspond through \"@lifefitness.com\" or \"@indoorcycling.com\" domain email addresses or \"lifefitness@myworkday.com\" for U.S. opportunities.
Life Fitness does not accept applications, inquiries or solicitations from unapproved staffing agencies or vendors.