A BIT ABOUT US:
Ask Partner Network (APN) is an operating business of Mindspark and IAC (NASDAQ: IACI). At APN we create custom toolbars, consumer browser applications and search solutions in partnership with leading software and media companies across a broad range of industries including security, games, audio-video and social media. We're experiencing tremendous growth and we're adding talented professionals to our team.
Key Skills Required
- A passion for solving complicated problems and becoming the product champion for several types of products
- Ability to analyze competitive landscape and design short-term and long-term roadmaps that lead to develop sustainable product differentiation from competition
- Technical ability to rapidly develop deep understanding of current product suite
- Leadership ability to manage and work with all critical functional teams
- Experience and interpersonal skills needed to effectively collaborate with stakeholders and customers in such a way that builds credibility with customers at all levels of their organization
- Detailed understanding of the ever-changing mobile and tablet landscape
Responsibilities of the Role:
New product development:
- Ability to analyze qualitative and quantitative feedback from end-users, distributors, OEMs
- Define product requirements for next generation products for tablet and mobile phones. This includes client, web and client applications.
- Deliver new products that are competitive and differentiated with other leading providers;
- Develop metrics and analysis that demonstrate our product offering competes and is being well received in the marketplace
Design and deliver products for partners & OEMs:
- Support internal business development team efforts to win partner deals with sustainable solutions
- Support internal business development team efforts in closing OEM and carrier deals.
- Work with partners to ensure new products meet their needs throughout the partner lifecycle (negotiation, development-integration, launch, reporting)
- Manage the on-time delivery of new products to partners
Other Attributes:
- 4-6 years of software relevant (web or client) product management experience with 2 of those years in the mobile or tablet space
- A proven ability to write detailed product requirement documents to be used by engineering to build the product
- Technical understanding of web and client software development methodologies
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Proficient in Scrum or other Agile development processes
- BA/BS
Location: Oakland, CA (1 block from 12th Street – BART stop)
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