Technical Product Manager

Company Description

Nearmap is unique. A global technology company with incredible people; a market-leader with energy and spirit. Nearmap was named as one of the world’s 10 Most Innovative Companies of 2020 by Fast Company magazine - and we’re growing.

If you join us on this exciting journey, you’ll love our inclusive values and share our ambition to become the source of truth that helps shape decisions for the liveable world.

**What we do**
We provide easy, instant access to high-resolution aerial imagery, city-scale 3D content, AI datasets and integrated geospatial tools, with wide-scale coverage across the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. At the core of it, we’re a location content company, a visual analytics company, and a software as a service company. Innovation is weaved into our DNA.

**Job Description**:
The Technical Product Manager will work closely with our technology and engineering teams to help define our platform roadmap and ensure high quality, on-time delivery.

As a member of our product team, you will develop a strong understanding of our customers’ needs, as well as our technical capability, to drive creative solutions that stay ahead of the industry curve.

You will help identify and initiate investigations of new technologies, prototype and test solutions for product features, and validate designs that deliver an exceptional user experience. You’ll be part of a world-class team, surrounded by smart people who are passionate about our technology and our product.
- Work with Solution Product Managers and Product Marketing to understand customer problems and find innovative solutions for the broader market that generates revenue.
- Be the custodian of your platform or project area on behalf of your customers and Nearmap - ensure that solutions are consistent, practical, high-quality, and forward-thinking.
- Manage and prioritise the product backlog in your area of responsibility, balancing the needs and requests of multiple parties: customers, Solution Product Managers, Sales, Engineering, and senior leadership.
- Track against the product delivery milestones and update relevant stakeholders on the progress of product initiatives.
- Collaborate closely with other Product groups to ensure proper balance between market-driven requirements and technical implementation details.
- On a continuous basis, work with engineers and software developers to interpret and clarify requirements. The objective is to allow the technical teams to operate at full velocity, avoiding situations where lack of requirements clarity impedes progress.
- Identify and manage dependencies and risks.
- Take market-driven product requirements from Solution Managers and others, and add sufficient clarification and detail so that development teams can estimate, plan, design and implement with confidence.
- Work with designers and developers to synthesise diverse and competing vertical requirements into practical solutions that meet both the specific needs of the verticals, and the general needs of a broad customer base.
- Understand your customer in a data-driven manner - analyse available customer data, identify gaps in the data and recommend ways of plugging the gaps.
- Map business requirements to the external system capabilities and identify gaps and opportunities to improve our business processes
- Be the Product Owner of your agile development team. Write crystal-clear user stories. Encourage and support iterative and collaborative development, favouring people over process.

**Qualifications**:
We’re looking for an experienced Technical Product Manager/Developer with solid technical expertise supporting new technology and/or the roll-out new features for existing products.
- Five or more years’ experience as a Technical Product Manager, Product Owner, Business Analyst or Systems Analyst working with agile development teams
- Demonstrated success working with Product and Engineering teams to deliver quality product to market
- Digital product development and go to market
- Software development or management
- Working with complex CRM and subscription billing platforms, preferably Salesforce and Zuora respectively
- Understanding of basic subscription billing concepts

Additional Information
**Some of our benefits**
Nearmap takes a holistic approach to our employees’ emotional, physical and financial wellness. Our current benefits include access to the Nearmap employee share scheme, short and long-term financial incentives, flexible working options, paid volunteer days, gym and phone rebates, and lots of development opportunities including hack-a-thons and pitch-fests.

**Working at Nearmap**
We move fast and work smart; often wearing multiple hats. We adapted to remote working with ease and are continually looking at ways to improve. We’re proud of our inclusive, supportive culture, and maintain a safe environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging and can be themselves.

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