Technical product manager
Cogniance Inc. - is a Full Service Web2.0 & Mobile Software incubator for funded startups and technology companies in Western Europe and Silicon Valley.
One of our key projects - Cloudmade, opened a challenging position of Product manager. Cloudmade builds an innovative application development platform that will power a new generation of location aware applications on web mobile and beyond. In the last 2 years CloudMade has grown a community of over 23,500 developers around the world building applications that use location in unique ways.
CloudMade's Executive Team is made up of seasoned industry veterans and technology entrepreneurs who have backgrounds in companies like Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, Symbian, Macromedia and Sony-Ericsson. We believe that by 2013, 50% of the applications running on the 1Bn smartphones in use around the world will use location in some way to enhance the user experience. We want you to join us on our journey.
As a Product Manager at CloudMade it is your mission to define and lead products that are changing the way Navigation OEMs, Handset OEMs and App Store Developers use location in their devices and apps.
Responsibilities for your products will include:
- Ownership of the full product lifecycle from brainstorming and ideation to use cases, road mapping, requirements and release
- Defining use cases for consumer, developer and enterprise users, reviewing and communicating these use cases with CloudMade's internal teams
- Working with CloudMade engineering teams to create technical requirements
- Defining and owning KPIs and success criteria
- Engaging with CloudMade customers in the Navigation OEM, Handset OEM and App Store Developer categories both onsite in the US and EU and via video conference to understand their needs and to help our customers fully understand the capabilities of CloudMade's platform
- Working closely with CloudMade's Sales and Marketing teams to understand customer needs, translating those needs into use cases and technical requirements
As part of a dynamic, high achieving Product Delivery team, you will actively participate and contribute to:
- Brainstorming new product ideas across all CloudMade product lines
- Reviewing existing CloudMade products across all product lines
You will be part Product Delivery team with team members in London, Stuttgart, Kyiv and Silicon Valley, California. You will report directly to the Head of Products and co-Founder of CloudMade, Nick Black.
About You
- You want to be part of a team that is changing the world - you live to see your products being used by hundreds of millions of people.
- You have a strong technical background. You also understand social, use case and business model problems and can quickly understand and solve a multitude of different problems.
- You are passionate - about technology, about apps, about cloud computing.
- You are an exceptional communicator who is comfortable engaging with customers, CloudMade management and with the engineering teams you will work with each day.
- You think, plan and act in a structured way that lets you get the most out of the teams that you lead.
Company offers:
- Competitive salary offer, payments according to CrossBank course
- Medical Insurance
- Annual bonus based on company revenue sharing program
- Extensive career plan
- 24 paid vacation and paid sick-list
- Flexible working hours
- Great team and challenging projects
- Chance for international travel
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Cogniance offers excellent benefits for its employees including competitive salaries, regular salary reviews and performance based bonus system, great working conditions, medical insurance,
подробнее Cogniance is a privately owned full-service consultancy in the software industry, specialized in development of complex, leading edge projects. Cogniance is a virtue of the most advanced, modern and flexible business models aiming at the result-oriented (or added value-based) performance.
Cogniance offers excellent benefits for its employees including competitive salaries, regular salary reviews and performance based bonus system, great working conditions, medical insurance, flexible working hours, office located in the central part of Kiev and a chance for international travel.
Main directions of our work are:
•Cogniance Engineering Team builds software systems based on the latest development technologies, which, however, have proven record of top class implementations. We've got top industry experts in Java, Ruby, DHTML, Ajax and other fields. Majority of systems we build fully utilize Web 2.0 patterns, including community generated content, social software functions, highly interactive web client side with strong Ajax-based logic, SaaS capabilities embedded into the system, and others. At Cogniance Engineering Team we are proud to use and constantly improve Cogniance Express - our home-grown software development process which is a balanced mix of Agile methodologies and program management approaches fit for large size projects.
•Cogniance QA Team makes sure each project is completed without defects and possible problems based on the previously agreed specifications, standards and functionality required.
QA activity is oriented to "Prevention".
On the other hand, qualified software is reasonably bug-free, delivered on time and within the budget, meets requirements and/or expectations, and is maintainable. That is why our QA system includes source code control, code reviews, change management, configuration management, and release management.
•Cogniance Design Team provides a wide variety of UI and Art services including user interface usability studies, web-design, e-commerce and online marketing tools design, Windows, Mac and mobile application interfaces, corporate identity style development, layout motion design, icon graphics and print production. The regular design cycle includes the following stages each followed by a review cycle - draft UI, final UI, draft Art, and final Art. By reviewing and constantly improving the usability of our deliverables and analyzing their position relative to current best practices we ensure that Cogniance Design Team imparts a global design aesthetic.
•Cogniance Operations Team facilitates on-going support and running cutomers' systems in their production environments. Our system administrators and system operators are well trained to ensure the best RASS ratio of heterogeneous solutions running on different OS platforms (Linux clones, FreeBSD, Windows; virtual host-based systems on Amazon EC2/S3). Being proficient at building 99.999% data centers for complex Web-bas
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