Product Manager for a CAD software plugin-package in the Reality Capture division of Hexagon Geosystems

Conduct the Product Management of the CAD software package

• Drive the high-level product roadmap: market needs, scenario usage, market positioning

• Perform competition analysis

• Define high level specifications of the features

• Liaise and collaborate closely with development team (located in Lyon and in the US)

• Execute the release activities of the product (validation and promotion of new releases)

• Execute and review sales analysis

Cross-functional team management & collaboration to maintain a 12-month rolling roadmap and 12 to 36-month roadmap vision

• Assess and address technical risks of requirement implementation plan

• Coordinate with R&D for requirement analyses and estimations to prepare feature/epic resource allocation and integration to the Rolling Roadmap during monthly roadmap updates

• Ensure requirements are fully understood by R&D and that implementation plans match expectations

Apply the Division strategy

• Align the product strategy with the Reality Capture vision

• Coordinate with other Product Managers

• Encourage the modularization of the product components across the software portfolio

• Understand and analyze data workflow

 Active as an Ambassador of the product

• Be a recognized product expert

• Represent the end-user in front of the R&D team (voice of customer)

• Represent the product during exhibitions and in internal meetings targeting sales people and application engineers

• Support demonstrations and training webinars

Sales & Support Enablement

• 3rd Level Support PM contact

• Deliver and review customer-facing technical material provided by marketing or documentation teams for completeness and accuracy before release/publish (e.g., technical specs, help documentation, etc.)

 Active as a Project Manager for the product

• Understand business requirements and translate those into technical requirements to maintain a 12-month rolling roadmap

• Act as a Team facilitator with organization of daily meetings and technical exchanges between the various stakeholders

• Define work packages from requirements (actionable components of a project scope)

• Define Epic/Story requirements and prioritize the backlog

• Define Project Scope contents and goals

• Define success criteria for testing and product acceptance in coordination with the QA team

Other duties as needed and assigned

Languages

• Mandatory for professional interaction: English

• Recommended: French

• Appreciated: German, Italian or others

Computer skills

• MS Office package

• CAD and Reality Capture software applications (Autodesk, Leica Geosystems, …): CAD expertise required

• Code languages: any skills would be appreciated

• “Project Management” tools (JIRA, MIRO, Confluence, …): an experience would be appreciated, in particular in JIRA toolset that is deployed in the team organization.

Industry and Market expected background

• 3D, Software, CAD, BIM

• Survey Engineering, Civil or MEP Engineering, Construction, Plant

• Reality Capture

Technical skills

Project management

• Coordination, synthesis, capacity to structure ideas

• Communication (digital and in-person)

Software development

• Understand the SW dev process, define feature specifications, to collaborate with a software development team

• Adapt to “agile method” organization

Product management

• Capacity to project in long-term, attitude to lead the vision of the product

• Capacity to discuss with all stakeholders, open-mindedness

• Poste ouvert et à pourvoir dans les meilleurs délais

• Premier échange en visio ou par téléphone pour présenter le contexte du recrutement et s’assurer de la bonne compréhension des attentes du poste.

• Entretiens en présentiel avec les membres de l’équipe produit de l’entité Hexagon à Lyon

• Etape finale: présentation d’un projet ou d’un cas d’application auprès de quelques personnes de l’équipe. Contenu et format à discuter avec nos équipes avant l’organisation de cette étape. Environ 20 minutes + 20 minutes de questions/réponses.