Senior Product Manager - AuthenTec - Helsinki

Job Description
The Senior Product Manager has a business-orientation mind and is responsible for the development and implementation of the strategic plans for a specific product family. He or she maintains a close relationship with the market (customers, evaluators, and potentials) for awareness of market needs and perspectives. This includes identification of appropriate markets and development of effective marketing strategies and tactics.



The Senior Product Manager is responsible for defining market requirements and packaging the features into product releases. Job duties include gathering requirements from prospects, evaluators and customers, writing marketing requirements documents, and monitoring the execution of product development projects.

The person we are looking for will work closely with the Business Unit Manager, Product Marketing Manager, Account and Sales Managers, and Engineering Managers to drive critical market and technology assessments, review competitive activity and identify customer needs that result in a product roadmap.

The Senior Product Manager will interface with engineering, customer support, corporate marketing and sales to develop schedules, secure appropriate resources, establish and meet interim milestones and drive roadmap projects to successful completion. He or she will also be responsible for the development and launch of new products in the embedded software product families and for ongoing life cycle management. The role includes creating product requirements and working with engineering to translate those requirements into products through the development of functional specifications, release milestones, project plans, documentation, product presentations and demonstrations, white papers and competitive analyses.

Responsibilities
AuthenTec’s Embedded Security Solution is looking for a person with good understanding of embedded security with the focus on software products and solutions. Our embedded software solutions include market leading secure communication software products based on IPsec, SSL/TLS and MACsec. AuthenTec is also a world leading supplier of Digital Rights Management technology including Microsoft PlayReady. We expect you to understand the technologies as well as the markets and business drivers. We work on many markets and we are primarily focused on the mobile, networking, telecommunication and broadcasting markets.
The Senior Product Manager will be responsible for the following duties:
Seeking new market opportunities within the company's distinctive competence
Initiating market research and sizing markets
Documenting market problems (both existing customers and future customers)
Analyzing product performance and sales success
Documenting product profitability and operational metrics
Creating and maintaining the business case
Product pricing
Determining buy/build/partner decisions
Serving as the solution expert when dealing with thought leaders, analysts, and press
Positioning the products for all markets and all buyers
Providing high-level market, cross-product and technical product requirements
Maintaining the product family roadmap
Approving final marketing and go-to-market plans
Monitoring industry innovations
Monitoring the implementation of the product development projects



Desired Skills & Experience

Background in Software
Experience with security products
Understanding of VPN, IPsec and SSL/TLS
Understanding of Digital Rights Management including PlayReady and other DRM schemes
Understanding of platform security including ARM TrustZone
Business and Sales awareness
Willingness to travel and participate in calls and conferences outside of normal business hours
10+ years of relevant experience
Education supporting the job requirements
We Appreciate
Good interpersonal and customer interaction skills
Experience with cryptography
Quick learner with capability to work independently
Experience with Android, iOS and other mobile platforms
Experience with security platforms
Overall solid technology background
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