Product Manager/Applications Engineer

At Fast Lane, a Product Manager (PM) works on the Product Line Management (PLM) team to help achieve revenue and profit targets. The PM creates and manages tactical planning through collaboration with sales, marketing and internal operations teams. The PM is responsible for managing existing products and for launching new products. PM will also work with PLMs on strategic positioning.

The position requires personal attributes such as strong organizational and communication skills; an understanding of relevant technology and industry trends; technical marketing and writing skills, and the ability to work with and motivate sales and support teams.

Fast Lane is looking for qualified individuals with knowledge in the vendor areas Cisco, NetApp VMware and Microsoft and technology areas of Cloud Computing, Data Center, Cisco Collaboration, Cisco Enterprise Networks, Virtualization, Storage and/or Storage Switching.

This is as excellent opportunity to evolve your product management and technology skills with mentoring from very experienced PLMs. Candidates should email a resume and any relevant information to hr@fastlaneus.com.

Candidates should email a resume and any relevant information to hr@fastlaneus.com.

Key Responsibilities

General Management & Business Development

  • Identifying, developing, launching and improving products
  • Ensuring compliance with vendor contracts
  • Identifying sales leads/opportunities
  • Supporting sales in closing opportunities
  • Working with PLM to execute Fast Lane’s product strategy
  • Monitoring quality assurance metrics for overall customer satisfaction and instructor performance
  • Ensuring use of best practices for ensuring excellence in training delivery and performance
  • Reviewing student evaluation responses to identify areas for improvement

Innovation and Product Line Management

  • Developing business cases for proposed new products
  • Performing product implementation planning, communication and collaboration with Operations, Marketing, Sales and World Wide lab team
  • Monitoring project plans to ensure they meet or exceed on-time, on-budget and quality parameters
  • Creating product masters and maintenance of CRM and Web site data
  • Working closely with Marketing to create product marketing campaigns, define product value statements and develop marketing copy
  • Supporting sales team by assisting with the definition/delivery of custom projects and acting in a sales engineering and support role for associated products
  • Providing product training to sales and partners
  • Understanding Fast Lane’s competition and determining how to best compete with them.

Planning and Forecasting

  • Conducting market analyses to determine product viability, value and positioning
  • Building course delivery schedules in conjunction with Operations

Job Qualifications The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications and attributes:

  • A Bachelor’s degree and Product Management knowledge in a technical field
  • 2 + years of technical product management/marketing
  • Basic level of project management skills
  • Knowledge of IT training industry
  • Ability to work well in cross-functional team environments
  • Self-driven and Result-oriented
  • Ability to focus on metrics and a strict attention to detail
  • Good technical knowledge and skills
  • Analytical thinking
  • Strong communication skills
  • Demonstrated significant contributions on successful teams