Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ASTM International develops and publishes voluntary consensus technical standards, products, and services for global technical information markets. The Product Manager II leads product strategy, planning, development, and lifecycle management, including market research, customer discovery, roadmap development, requirements prioritization, AI application, pricing, and collaboration with delivery, sales, marketing, and other stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Be familiar with technical information publishing in engineering focused industries
- Perform high-level market research and work with external research organizations as needed
- Apply AI tools (e.g. Claude, ChatPRD) to drive greater efficiency and quality across product management functions, including research, prototyping, roadmap maintenance, customer interview analysis, and requirements writing
- Evaluate and champion AI potential within assigned product lines
- Prepare market and financial analysis including pricing recommendations
- Execute voice of the customer, interviews and design thinking sessions
- Deliver product documentation: business case/product plans, customer interviews and targeted synopsis, and specifications for agile development teams, including clear requirements
- Prioritize features
- Work with Digital Services and occasionally, external service suppliers to collaboratively see products through their development using SAFE agile
- Define product strategy and roadmap; work closely with product teams to convey the product vision, continuously verify that the product fulfils that vision (as measured by customer value and business outcomes) and help the team ensure it is building and selling the right product
- Work with external publishers to assess partnerships and licensing opportunities
- Run prototypes, proofs of concept, and pilot programs with early-stage products
- Maintain a full product life cycle process, and work to balance short-term achievements with long-term goals (such as minimizing technical debt while maximizing resiliency)
- Understand the competition and like organizations’ offerings
- Attend assigned industry tradeshows, sales events, and ASTM committee weeks, in some cases functioning as the event lead in our trade show presence
- Drive pricing strategies in collaboration with sales
- Assist with I&E forecasts and budget
- Write descriptions and user support materials; develop written and video product support tools
- Some administrative tasks
- Other tasks as assigned by Director
Skills
- Minimum of 7 years of experience as a Product Manager or equivalent role
- Demonstrated success defining and launching excellent products
- 3+ years of experience in a job in publishing or software development (or laboratory or engineering regarding specification and standards management)
- Excellent business sensibility
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent critical thinking skills
- Excellent and persistent creative skills
- Bachelor's degree (Product Management, Communications, Engineering, IT/Software, Marketing, or related)
- Excellent teamwork skills
- Must be able to travel 10% of the time
- Skilled in MS Office
- Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams with and without formal authority
- Skilled in Atlassian tools, online work tools, & applicable software programs
- Strong skills in AI for managing product management tasks
- Strong presentation skills
- Negotiation skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Professional presence
- Self-directed
- Adaptable
- Forward thinking
- Willingness to learn and relearn
- Sales support minded
- MBA preferred
- SAFe or agile work experience preferred
- Technical/data publishing preferred
Benefits
- Undergraduate and Graduate Tuition Reimbursement
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
- Paid holidays, vacation and sick leave
- 403(b) plan with company match
- 100% company-funded defined benefits pension plan
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