enterprise software
Program Manager/Product Manager – Platform
Job ID: BE169999
Job Title: Program Manager/Product Manager – Platform
Salary: Open
Location: Northern California
Job Description:
Does building one of the world’s most sophisticated enterprise applications operating platforms sound like an exciting way to spend your time? Do you enjoy working with customers and translating their needs into concrete technology efforts? Do you excel at managing large, multifaceted development efforts? If so, then our client is for you.
Our client it the best company to work for that you’ve never heard of. They are market leaders in insurance software, serving the second-largest financial services industry in the world (after banking). They build the core applications that insurance companies use to sell policies, settle claims, and bill their customers. They serve customers all over the world, helping them handle billions of dollars worth of business. This is a lucrative and underserved market, and our client has grown rapidly through a combination of quality products, excellent service, innovative technology, and word-of-mouth reputation.
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Product Manager – Insurance Product
JobID: BE162658
Location: Northern California
JobTitle: Product Manager – Insurance Product
Salary: $110,000 – 130,000
Job Description:
(Job ID BE162658) Our client is a growing, well-positioned, and financially secure software company that builds large, sophisticated, and highly configurable applications for the insurance industry. They are looking for a product manager to own a critical set of features used by all of our applications.
Product managers aassume a wide range of responsibilities. You should have experience in gathering requirements for enterprise software applications, a high degree of comfort with technology, and exceptional analytical and communications skills. You should also be comfortable both engaging in product design discussions with developers and presenting to prospective customers. Our client follows Agile development processes that rely on rapid iterations, constant communication, and flexibility. Their product managers are the glue that hold together our minimally-supervised teams; you will be at the center of the product development effort.
With its emphasis on Agile methodologies, test-driven development, and self-managing teams, they are on the cutting edge of modern product development practices. Talk to their developers, QA engineers, consultants, sales associates, or product managers and you’ll immediately sense their enthusiasm for their unique culture. Their company was started to have a place to build high-quality software the way they wanted to: by respecting the power of smart, motivated people to find the best possible way to do their jobs.
In this role you will be the product manager who owns the “application framework” - the set of shared feature areas (such as Reporting, Assignment, Document Management, User/Group Administration) that are used by all of their products.
Responsibilities:
- will gather requirements from customers and application teams
- will define detailed requirements, working closely with developers through designs, making tactical decisions and working through corner-cases identified by customers or application teams
- will prioritize feature work and coordinating with other teams
- will be the expert who can help customers, QA, support, sales, and other groups with questions about your feature areas
- will provide expertise and selling tools for the Marketing and Sales organizations, including presenting directly to customers (there is a separate Product Marketing function that is directly responsible for messaging and collateral
Qualifications:
- must have enterprise software experience, preferably in a product management role
- must feel comfortable with XML, be able to understand scripting languages, and be able to communicate with the engineering team on tactical technical decisions. Programming experience is not required, but is a plus
- must have ability to translate high level requirements into detailed product specifications
- must have ability to manage complex initiatives with limited supervision
- must have exceptional written and oral communication skills
- must have good decision-making skills
- must have ability to excel in a team-oriented environment
- must have a real passion for detailed feature design and problem solving
Company Culture:
- company is in Pre-IPO hi-growth mode
- company develops mission-critical enterprise applications for leading insurance institutions
- company employs 370+ professionals
- company established in 2001 – backed by leading venture capital firms
- company has a well seasoned and highly reputable management team
Please send your resume to jobs at bincsearch dot com and reference the Job ID Number
Not All is Grim – Hot Companies That Are Still Hiring
Clearly this is a very difficult time in our economy, but contrary to what the media might have you believe, not all is grim. BINC is working with a number of forward-thinking companies that are still innovating and hiring and we wanted to make sure to share these opportunities with you.
If you are interested in talking with us about any of the below opportunities or if you’re working for a company that is actively looking to grow please contact boris at bincsearch dot com with a little blurb about what you are ideally interested in and we will do everything in our power to help out.
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Bay Area
Search
- Innovative Search Giant is looking for Sr. Scientists/Engineers to join their world-renowned Search Lab in Mid-Peninsula.
- Next-generation Search Startup with over 50MM in funding is looking for a Sr. Relevance Engineer and a Web Engineer to join their near-profitable organization.
- Vertical Search Startup with strong management team and cash position is looking for a UI Engineer and UI Designer to improve their site’s overall user experience.
- San Francisco based startup with impressive management team provides social search services that help companies gain insight about their consumers and improve their consumer’s experience. Looking for a Master of Product Management to be a holistic owner of all the company products, work closely with engineers, and define product requirements and produce successful products. Also looking to add Sr. Software Engineers to their team who are proficient in java, C/C++ and/or Ruby, passionate about a startup environment and excellent communicator
Next-generation Advertising Networks
- Next-generation Advertising Network startup is looking for a Web Application Developer to own the building of Facebook and other Social-networking-esque web applications. This is a ground-floor startup so major equity is being offered along with competitive salary.
- Company is the Market leader in web analytics and performance management solutions. Looking to add engineers to their ad director division working on optimizing campaigns for web advertising. Proficiency in python, C++ or Java and experience with major ad network API’s preferred.
Social networking
- Largest social utility, very financially stable with over 500 million in funding. Looking for hands-on coders who are extremely capable and interested in development. Experience with systems that are written in PHP, C/C++, JavaScript/Java, python, Perl, erlang, and LAMP stack, the role is open to people that need/want to ramp up on any of these languages.
- Successful Social Networking company wants a Sr. Product Manager to build features to make the experience more engaging.
- User Experience Director wanted for social networking product in the south bay.
Next-generation Media
- Ex-Google and Stanford founded start up in Palo Alto that is transforming your browser into an interactive, full screen, cinematic experience for web media is looking for client/Server side engineers who know C/C++, Java and hadoop, web engineers who are familiar with java and the entire stack of front end technologies, and a Dir/Sr Product Manager who can be both inbound and out, as well as work closely with the engineers so technical enough to do so.
Enterprise Software
- Successful enterprise software company on the peninsula wants crazy smart Java Developers to work in an agile environment.
Gaming
- Gaming company in San Francisco wants a Creative Director responsible for making the games fun and a UI Lead (JavaScript expert) responsible for making the distribution channels intuitive and easy to use.
- LikeVirtual Worlds? This start up wants a Product Manager who understands how to build a product for young women. Mid peninsula, easy caltrain access.
- Have you heard of Facebook? How about Online Games like World of Warcraft? Well this company is merging social networking with online gaming to creat a unique experience, that will change the way we look at online gaming. Simply put, they are looking for a guru in Ruby. Someone with experience working for a start-up who is ready to come in and help prepare the companies product for their public launch.
SaaS
- Funded start up enterprise SaaS Company on peninsula wants Web Engineers and Dir of Product Management.
- Web 2.0 SaaS VOIP provider targeting small businesses wants a Sr. Product Manager to drive a new product. On the Peninsula, great opportunity to own product line.
Seattle
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World-class Web Labs SDE – Want the chance to work on a brand new v1.0 product never before released in the world of search technology? Our client is working on blending the worlds of core and semantic search technology into a single consumer friendly application. They’re looking for a rockstar web services developer with experience building crazy-scalable systems to round out their 8-man team in a world class applied research facility.
- World-class Web Labs SDET – Tired of working over the same testing problems week after week – feel like your constantly just re-creating the same test tools for the same product over and over? The same applied research team building cutting edge search technology is looking for a Sr./Lead SDET to join their team and build their test infrastructure from the ground up. You’ll be responsible for test planning, test cases, and the hands on test development.
- Development Manager – One of Seattle’s most high profile startups is seeks a highly technical Engineering Manager to lead the development of a one-of-a-kind e-commerce product. You’ll work to revolutionize a centuries old industry – your team could literally turn the industry on its head overnight! They’re seeking an experienced energetic dev manager who knows when to manage/delegate and when to roll up the sleeves and jump into the code head first! Love Java and embrace open source whole-hearted!
- Test Manager – Top to bottom own a high profile – well funded startups testing efforts. Your team will have exposure to technology ranging from search, to cutting edge maps technology, commerce and data aggregation. You will be responsible for managing a team and playing QA Architect, in every way defining and steering the companies test strategy.
- Networking/Storage Engineer – If you are excited by the bleeding edge of virtualization and cloud computing technology and are looking to throw in with an exciting startup – our client is looking for a low level software engineer with exceptional file systems, storage, network protocol, and overall low level dev skills to work in their highly talented 20-person company.
- An industry pioneer utilizing the power of GPS to make games and mobile applications. Looking for a 2D Animator / UI Designer to help define and build the next generation of mobile entertainment applications. Looking for someone ideally with Mobile or Gaming experience as well as knowledge of preparing art and animation assets for use in mobile applications and games.
- An independent game studio working on next generation AAA titles. Looking for a Lead Engineer to lead a team of about a dozen engineers to work on a new M-Rated IP, for the next generation consoles. Experience leading a team of engineers working on a console title and experience with the Unreal Engine are highly preferred.
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