Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Versaterm is a global public safety solutions company helping agencies transform their organizations through innovative solutions. The Product Manager II will streamline workflows for non-emergency and emergency phone calls, owning the delivery of product strategy and managing the backlog to ensure leading industry standards.
Responsibilities
- Define the product's vision and strategic direction, ensuring alignment with company objectives and customer needs
- Clearly articulate the business case and customer value for each initiative or feature
- Serve as the recognized subject matter expert on the product, the market, and the competitive landscape
- Translate product strategy into actionable plans, determining what to build and when to release it
- Build and maintain a detailed development roadmap for internal teams and a high-level roadmap for executives and customers
- Gather input from customers, internal stakeholders, and market research to shape the roadmap
- Partner with engineering and cross-functional teams to ensure delivery meets market needs and quality standards
- Collect and curate ideas from customers, sales, and internal stakeholders for the backlog
- Prioritize features by balancing user value, development effort, time to market, and competitive differentiation
- Track and evaluate product performance including feature adoption, customer satisfaction, and churn/renewal drivers
- Run trials, pilots, and MVPs to validate assumptions before broader launches
- Perform ongoing market and competitor research
- Collaborate internally with engineering, sales, marketing, partner success, support, implementation, finance, legal, and the leadership team
- Engage externally with customers, end-users, and partners to gather feedback and ensure the product meets real-world needs
- Promote the product through training, sales enablement, webinars, and direct customer interactions
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Business, or related field
- Advanced degree or relevant certifications (e.g., CSPO, SAFe PO) are a plus
- A minimum of 5–7 years of experience in a Product Management role
- Proven experience overseeing elements of the product development lifecycle
- Strong understanding of Agile frameworks, particularly Scrum or Kanban
- Experience with tools like JIRA, Confluence, or similar
- Highly effective cross-functional team collaboration skills
- Exceptional writing and presentation skills
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
- Experience with Aha! Product Management software
- Familiarity with software engineering concepts such as APIs, databases, and cloud
- Experience with Call Center software such as ACD, IVR and AI bots
- Demonstrated experience using AI tools to accelerate product workflows, including requirements generation, research synthesis, and user story drafting
- Familiarity with AI-native or spec-driven development (SDD) practices is a plus
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits offering
- Some roles may also be eligible for variable compensation such as incentive plans or discretionary performance bonuses
- Accommodations are available upon request throughout all stages of the recruitment process and apply to the terms and conditions of employment
Company Overview
Versaterm’s ecosystem of innovative solutions is for public safety agencies, forensic scientists, court systems and school systems. It was founded in 1977, and is headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, CAN, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://www.versaterm.com/.