Strategic Business Manager helping products thrive
San Francisco Bay Area
Strategic Business Manager helping products thrive
San Francisco Bay Area
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Results oriented, customer focused manager with over 12 years of proven experience delivering business results in a variety of product strategy, strategic marketing, revenue oriented partnerships, and engineering roles in the enterprise software market across development, quality and operations spaces. Able to create and drive a strategic agenda while balancing stakeholder needs, short-term objectives and team morale. Ability to drive change augmented by excellent verbal and written communication, relationship management and leadership skills.
Experience:
- Developing business strategy (based on industry, market & competitive analysis, scenario analysis, portfolio analysis, and core competencies), defining buisness plan (including business case development), and managing its execution.
- Marketing and business development of new solutions and services (market & competitive analysis driven segmentation and positioning, defining value proposition & elevator pitch, defining brand platform, contributing internal & external collateral, evangelizing internally & externally with webinars, roadshows & conference events).
- Managing relationships with strategic customers, sales/pre-sales and partners to drive the product direction along with inputs from the analysts and thought leaders.
Crafting product strategy and roadmaps
Evangelizing solutions in emerging markets
Fortifying partner relations
Excellent interpersonal and team management skills
Solid technical background
Functional:
Software Quality and Testing, Cloud Computing, SOA Management, Web Services Management, Agile Development, Governance
International Teams:
USA, United Kingdom, India, Israel, Germany, Czech Republic
Full travel flexibility
(Public Company; HPQ; Computer Hardware industry)
2009 — Present (less than a year)
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
2007 — Present (2 years )
Photography : Published in Jerusalem Post (Israel) and other internet travel and news sites
Awarded the HP Garage Award (only 4 awards given out in a year) for innovative approach of establishing a partnership with customers and R&D to create products with superior usability leveraging limited R&D resources