Product Manager

NetBooks’ mission is to revolutionize the way small businesses are managed. Using a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model, NetBooks addresses the long-standing need for a comprehensive, easy-to-use business management system for America’s 5.1 million True Small Businesses (owner-operated firms with fewer than 25 people).

NetBooks is seeking a talented, enthusiastic, self-starting product manager to join our team.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Assume hands-on definition of new product features and enhancements from market research, competitive analysis, win/loss analysis and user testing feedback.

Negotiate with engineering and QA on release functionality and schedules. Make tradeoff decisions between functionality, resources and schedules as needed to ensure NetBooks’ product leadership.

Identify, negotiate and manage strategic partnerships with third-party software providers to build the NetBooks product ecosystem.

Follow and analyze industry trends, collect and analyze customer needs, collect and research competitive information.

Support marketing and sales activities as needed, particularly to create marketing collateral and other sales tools.

Qualifications:

At least 3 years of experience in product management. Demonstrated experience in requirements gathering, MRD/PRD writing, and project management.

Track record of leading complete life cycles of winning products in a fast-paced environment, preferably in a small startup company with strong market-driven product development processes.

Extensive experience and direct involvement with any of the following:
- Internet commerce or web-intensive businesses
- Back-end software products, especially complex, mission-critical applications and web-based tools
- Service-related businesses serving large user communities

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or computer sciences or equivalent experience. Masters degree in engineering or MBA is a plus.

Understanding of technologies, such as Ruby on Rails, web services (XML/SOAP), web-based graphical user interfaces, and relational databases.

Excellent analytical skills. The ability to analyze each possibility, to separate edge-cases from core objectives, to assess trade-offs in light of what’s doable and to devise tests for assumptions and conclusions.

Passionate and high-energy team player with demonstrated leadership, negotiation and communication skills.

Experience with distributed teams and agile methodologies a plus.

Familiarity with small business accounting a plus.