Senior Product Manager

Senior Product Manager – Administration and Permission Management 

 

Anaplan is looking for a passionate Senior Product Manager to help drive the development of our next generation Planning and Decision Excellence platform. This person will be based in India and be instrumental in the execution of our product strategy, with data-driven and customer-oriented focus. The role will focus on the Administration and Permission Management areas of the Anaplan Platform.  

Applicants should have a Product Management background and ideally relevant experience with Anaplan or other equivalent solutions. Applicants would bring experience working with engineering teams to deliver products and solutions to the market, they would have to demonstrate that they will be able to learn a new market and understand the needs of our customers related to all things planning, modelling and analytics. 

 

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES 

 

• Work with the existing product team to define and drive the vision and roadmap for Anaplan’s Administration and Permissions Management framework. 

• Understand the market for Enterprise Software in general and Anaplan specifically. Be the voice of the customer while understanding the competitive Landscape. Be able to define and segment users of the Anaplan platform qualitatively and quantitatively.  

• Work with the Product leadership, UX, Engineering and other cross-functional teams on roadmap and capacity planning   

• Drive end-to-end experiences: writing user stories with clear acceptance criteria, working with UX to create prototypes for usability testing and research, working with engineering, documentation, support, and marketing to deliver quality experiences.   

• Creating enablement material including technical & support documents, and video walk throughs. 

• Effectively collaborate across global teams to create alignment between engineering teams and other product stakeholders. 

• Train sales, customer success and support on new features and messaging.    

• Work closely with engineering teams to execute on day-to-day development.  

• Meet with customers, users, prospects, and partners to communicate Anaplan’s product vision, product roadmap, and competitive differentiation.  

 

REQUIREMENTS 

 

• Proven experience working as a Product Manager in a technology-driven environment, preferably with experience in SaaS or enterprise software companies. 

• Strong understanding of IT Governance, Separation of Duties, and the expectations of Enterprise IT and Security Teams with respect to SAAS Platforms. 

• Understanding of authentication and authorization practices in Enterprise IT (e.g. RBAC, Service Users, SSO, SAML, SCIM).  

• Strong understanding of typical API usage patterns within Enterprise IT 

• Domain knowledge of Anaplan solutions 

• Strong understanding of the product management lifecycle and launching new products 

• Proficiency in gathering and analysing market and customer insights. 

• Ability to translate customer needs into actionable product requirements. 

• Experience working in an Agile development environment and familiarity with tools like Jira, Confluence, etc. 

• Excellent leadership skills – understand how to balance inputs, lead teams, prioritise, and make data-driven decisions 

• Experience in creating and managing product roadmaps. 

• Experience in creating enablement documentation including technical & support style documents 

• Excellent organizational skills and experience in managing projects with multiple stakeholders to ensure successful product delivery 

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