Product Owner

Who We Are:

TransPerfect is the world's largest provider of language services and technology solutions for global business. From offices in over 100 cities on six continents, TransPerfect offers a full range of services in 170 languages to clients worldwide. More than 5,000 global organizations employ TransPerfect's GlobalLink® technology to simplify management of multilingual content. With an unparalleled commitment to quality and client service, TransPerfect is fully ISO 9001 and ISO 17100 certified. TransPerfect has global headquarters in New York, with regional headquarters in London and Hong Kong. For more information, please visit our website at www.transperfect.com.

Vasont Systems, a division of TransPerfect, provides component content management software (CCMS) and XML data services, enabling organizations to manage and reuse content effectively, especially for multilingual and complex publications.

Summary:

The product-owner for GlobalLink Vasont Inspire is responsible for customer and competitive research, describing and assigning features to specific releases, ensuring that development teams have clarity on development objectives, and creating the marketing collateral that supports the product’s position in the market.

The product-owner is also a sales engineer, responsible for demonstrating the product to prospects, customers, sales executives, and management; also, responsible for showing how GlobalLink Vasont Inspire’s capabilities and roadmap align with customer use-cases and needs.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Manage the product roadmap, including creating the roadmap, reviewing it with stakeholders, adjusting priorities of roadmap items in response to feedback, and aligning product backlog items (PBIs) and priorities with roadmap projections
• Create customer-facing collateral, such as white papers, product brochures, and e-mail messages, to attract interest in GlobalLink Vasont Inspire.
• Conduct use-case meetings with account managers to correlate feedback with PBIs; identify, create, and ensure reporting on enhancements and bugs
• Respond to questions raised by Engineers in design meetings; devise solutions to issues and describe them to Engineering
• Prepare for development and release “sprints”; duties include identifying PBI’s for refinement, conducting post-Sprint retrospectives, setting Sprint goals and vision, reviewing documentation and test reports, participating in daily Sprint meetings as needed; make go/no-go decisions about software releases
• Help sales executives to qualify opportunities and conduct discovery calls; provide guidance to sales executives about the suitability of GlobalLink Vasont Inspire to a prospect’s use-cases and requirements
• Demonstrate GlobalLink Vasont Inspire, which includes converting a prospect’s content into XML, providing “Harmonizer” analysis of a prospect’s content, helping prospects to articulate their technical and financial decision criteria, conducting proofs-of-concept experiences, developing formal and detailed proposals, and generating customer-facing pricing
• Ensure that new GlobalLink Vasont Inspire customers connect smoothly with their assigned account managers
• Follow-up with sales executives on new and existing opportunities
• Assist executive management in training TransPerfect sales executives on selling GlobalLink Vasont Inspire, and related Content Services

Required Skills and Experience

• Baccalaureate degree, or equivalent work experience in component content management
• Demonstrated business acumen in Content Management
• Developing, communicating, and measuring key product indicators
• Proficient in working with executive leadership and teams in other departments
• Proficient in both oral and written communication to both executive management and members of other departments
• Proficient in word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software, particularly Microsoft Office

Where Your Career Is Going:

At TransPerfect, there are a lot of growth opportunities. All departments offer career growth and development that can combine your skills, interests, and experience. We encourage our employees to have a continuous dialogue with management about growth opportunities throughout your tenure with the company. End your job search and find your career at TransPerfect #careersNOTjobs.

Why TransPerfect:

For more than 25 years, we have honed a culture where all kinds of ideas are shared and new ventures are not only welcomed, but also encouraged. In this fast-paced environment, employees are intellectually stimulated so they can grow alongside the organization. From Intern to President, we believe that every single employee should have a voice and contribute to the amazing services we offer our clients.

We also offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401k matching, membership to child-care providers, and other TransPerks. You even get your birthday off because let's face it, we're stoked that you were born.

TransPerfect provides equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law

For more information on the TransPerfect Family of Companies, please visit our website at www.transperfect.com.