Product Manager (Data as Service)

About Us

Diligent is the global leader in modern governance, providing SaaS solutions across governance, risk, compliance, audit and ESG. Empowering more than 1 million users and 700,000 board members and leaders with a holistic view of their organization’s GRC practices so they can make better decisions, faster. No matter the challenge.

At Diligent, you are an agent of positive change. You are joining a team of passionate, smart, creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future, but who want to make the world a more sustainable, equitable and better place. Be a part of a global community on a mission to make a real impact.

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Position Overview 

The Data Intelligence Product Management team is a function responsible for achieving market dominance in the Governance DaaS space. We are hiring for a Product Manager for our News Analytics product, providing news aggregation and sentiment analysis capabilities. We are responsible for defining and executing on both the short and long-term product strategy in close partnership with our ‘triad’ partners Engineering and UX. We work across every team in Diligent along with customers and partners to develop unrivalled knowledge on the needs of both of existing users and the market as a whole; and utilise this knowledge to deliver on Diligent’s business goals. As well as our core responsibility to build an industry leading GRC platform we also serve as SME’s and a centre of excellence for Product, Market and Domain knowledge across the business. 

Key Responsibilities  

• Drive the product roadmap for your solution, through understanding customer needs and evaluating, curating and ruthlessly prioritizing new ideas.
• Develop and implement the product strategy that align to the company vision and strategy.
• Be the voice of the customer in our product team, by clearly communicating and sharing insights about our customers and how we can get their jobs done better.
• Engage with customers for discovery and validation of new solution capabilities.
• Manage your solution backlog, writing user stories and collaborating with the team on design.
• Collaborate cross functionally with UX, Engineering, Product Marketing, Sales and Customer Success teams to build and launch products to market.
• Develop and maintain a strong knowledge of the business domain, applying problem-solving skills to address critical and complex issues to ensure the product evolves to make our customers successful at their jobs.
• Track product performance, user engagement, and outcomes. 

Required Experience/Skills  

• Experience as a Product Manager, preferably in a B2B DaaS software industry.
• Demonstrated success defining and launching excellent products.
• You possess excellent written and verbal communication skills and a strong business acumen. Understand the entire software development lifecycle and are experienced in agile cross-functional environments and being a part of autonomous teams.
• You love talking to customers, prospects discussing product and business strategy and do not hesitate to get jump in and get the job done.
• You have a data-oriented mindset, and you are passionate about user and performance metrics.
• Own customer/stakeholder engagement for major product issues and design product value propositions for large audiences (e.g., Professional Services, Marketing, Sales).  

Preferred Experience/Skills  

• Experience within News Analytics. 
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, Pendo and/or comparable tools is preferred.
• Experience in Database and software development.  

What Diligent Offers You 

• Creativity is ingrained in our culture. We are innovative collaborators by nature. We thrive in exploring how things can be differently both in our internal processes and to help our clients
• We care about our people. Diligent offers a flexible work environment, global days of service, comprehensive health benefits, meeting free days, generous time off policy and wellness programs to name a few
• We have teams all over the world. We may be headquartered in New York City, but we have office hubs in Washington D.C., Vancouver, London, Galway, Budapest, Munich, Bengaluru, Singapore, and Sydney.
• Diversity is important to us. Growing, maintaining and promoting a diverse team is a top priority for us. We foster and encourage diversity through our Employee Resource Groups and provide access to resources and education to support the education of our team, facilitate dialogue, and foster understanding.

Diligent created the modern governance movement. Our world-changing idea is to empower leaders with the technology, insights and connections they need to drive greater impact and accountability – to lead with purpose. Our employees are passionate, smart, and creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future, but who want to make the world a more sustainable, equitable and better place. 

Headquartered in New York, Diligent has offices in Washington D.C., Baltimore, London, Galway, Budapest, Vancouver, Bengaluru, Munich, and Sydney. 

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