Product Definition Lead

Job Title : Product Definition Lead - 1 Opening(s)
Job Function : IT/Telecom - Software
Specialization : Team Lead/Tech Lead
Industry : IT-Software
Qualification : Post Graduation - M.Sc, ME/M.Tech (Computers, Electrical, Electronics/Telecommunication )
School & Graduation - B.Sc, BE/B.Tech (Computers, Electrical, Electronics/Telecommunication )
Experience : 3 - 5
Location : Pune
Key Skills : Agile, Scrum, Project Management, MySQL, Web applications,


JOB DESCRIPTION :
Job Description:-

The Position:

PTC is looking for a highly intelligent, motivated, and organized leader for a challenging new

technical product management position titled "Product Definition Lead". This position

resides in the internal systems group in PTC University, PTC's customer training

department.

One of PTC's vital corporate objectives is to have a strong and growing customer education

business. To be successful, the department needs powerful information management and

product development tools for our employees and partners. This new product definition

lead role will have the responsibility to ensure that a multitude of development projects are

well-defined, well-executed, and aggressively managed to completion in a timely manner.

He or she will work very closely with the US-based product director to ensure all projects

are completely and accurately documented. He or she will help the India-based

development teams understand the total vision behind their work, keeping them focused on

the ultimate goals. He or she will manage product requirements and defects, and ensure

that the development velocity is maintained at a high rate.

Although this role will not actually manage a development team, this is a leadership role

critical to successful and efficient product development. The development teams must be

confident that this person is continuously evolving a comprehensive knowledge of the

systems as a whole, and thus the ability to make informed decisions about a broad range.

Requirements:

The candidate must have extensive experience with database design and queries, web

application mechanics, software development methodologies, project management,

technical support, and user training. The ideal candidate must have a strong sense of

personal responsibility for the success of organizational goals where these systems are

concerned. He or she will also have mature interpersonal and communication skills. The

candidate must be proactive in identifying risks and creative in approaches to eliminate or

mitigate them. He or she must be agile and creative enough to effectively overcome

technical and personal obstacles within the department, as well as with outside parties or

systems.

Desired Profile:-

Candidates with skills, knowledge, and experience in the following areas will be given the

highest consideration:

Gathering & validating requirements, digesting those requirements, and working with

a technical team to craft solution designs.

Guiding technical teams and making intelligent, informed design and product

decisions in a timely manner.

Thinking strategically about the future direction of the products and the impact of

their decisions on that future direction.

Excellent written and spoken communication skills

Extensive experience working with global, distributed teams.

Agile Scrum development methodologies

Agile project management software (Rally)

Oracle / MySQL

Business intelligence software (Hyperion)

Perl / PHP / CakePHP

Java / JSP

Arbortext

Windchill

XML

Siebel
COMPANY DESCRIPTION :
PTC is all about helping discrete manufacturers succeed by meeting their globalization, time-to-market, and operational efficiency objectives in product development. As one of the world's largest and fastest-growing software companies, we deliver a complete portfolio of integral Product Lifecycle Management solutions to over 50,000 customers in the Industrial, High Tech, Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, Consumer, and Medical Device industries.