About Arcules

Arcules is a bold new company transforming video into powerful intelligence to drive innovation, optimize business & make the world a safer world. Based in Irvine, CA, Arcules is a Canon group (NYSE: CAJ) company powered by technology from Milestone Systems.

We hire superheroes who are committed to our mission and who are not afraid to take risks and fail fast. We offer a fun environment with excellent benefits. Our hiring processes emphasizes finding the right fit for our workplace culture, so this means you will work with a dynamic and supportive team committed to the same goal of making the company a success. Learn more about us on our website: https://www.arcules.com/

Job Purpose

• The Arcules Product Management (PM) team are the champions of the customer. They thrive at understanding the customer's problem and working in small teams with engineers and designers to build the solution. Our PMs are data-driven, skilled communicators, and leaders within the organization driving company and customer growth.
• Arcules Product Managers are responsible for the success of the product by setting direction and maximizing the output of the autonomous agile teams – while ensuring that the features of the product meet customer needs.

Primary Responsibilities
The Senior Product Manager is accountable for eliciting market needs and creating vision/scope documents - ensuring the optimal packaging of features into continuous release cycles.

• Based on the market input, be the voice of the customer in the fast-paced agile process consisting of several autonomous product development teams.
• Prioritize product/user story backlogs so that the solution effectively addresses the business priorities.
• Collaborate with other Product Managers to maintain the product backlog and prioritize feature across the platform.
• Work with key business stakeholders to elicit market needs, define solutions, and drive operational initiatives for future SaaS solutions.
• Translate the business strategy to execution delivering innovative solutions addressing customer and end-user needs.

Job Tasks

• Investigate and understand end-user and customer needs and translate these into features, epics and user stories for the product development teams.
• Create, maintain and prioritize the product backlog to best achieve the overall product strategy.
• Collaborate with UX, Engineering and QA to execute on the product strategy.
• Promote a “fail fast” mentality among the product development teams.
• Create vision/scope documents for different features of the product to help drive product vision.
• Partner with Go To Market (GTM) organization on delivery of the product.
• Understand and document (for the purposes of cross-team communications) the competitive landscape in regards of the defined market segment and add backlog items to respond to competition.
• Actively support strategic planning, with a strong technical insight.
• Assistant with the creation of training, sales support and marketing communication material for major product releases.

Professional Qualifications

• 5+ years of Cloud/SaaS Product Management experience in a start-up environment.
• Product Management for a Cloud/SaaS product and start-up experience is a must.
• Experience in Video Surveillance, IoT or Enterprise SaaS products.
• Blend of technical & business skills - Proven B2B experience dealing with SaaS solutions with complex business needs.
• Experience with working effectively in agile process with autonomous product development teams.
• Understanding of IT Networks, Network Security, and Cloud security & compliance.
• Understanding of Enterprise software Architecture and microservice architecture.
• Master degree in Computer Science or related field required. MBA preferred.

Personal Skills

• Agile and execution oriented in approach to Product Management.
• Works great in teams and possess good interpersonal skills
• Self-assured, driven, confident and goal-oriented – set clear directions without dictating the technical solution.
• Ability to effectively delegate and translate needs into daily routine operations
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong technical, mathematics, and analytical skills.
• Solves problems effectively - sees innovation opportunities in everything.
• Strong operational execution with ability to build and manage cross-group, cross-cultural relationships.