Product Manager Software
Description
Position Responsibilities and Expectations: This hands-on product management role turns customer needs, technical requirements, product capabilities, market opportunities, and business objectives into successful software features and experiences from concept through release and post-launch support. - Define and deliver software products, tools, features, and experiences that drive and enhance Fanatec hardware products as part of the Product Management team. - Help define and maintain the software product roadmap, including application capabilities, drivers, firmware, settings, profiles, game compatibility, and additional software-enabled functionality. - Gather and synthesize customer, community, market and game ecosystem research. Translate insights into clear product requirements and recommendations. - Create and maintain product firmware and software focused requirement documents, feature definitions, user experience expectations and release criteria. - Prioritize feature backlogs, release scope, tradeoffs, and launch readiness with engineering, project management, and stakeholders. - Work closely with software engineering, firmware, hardware engineering, UX/UI design, QA, project management, customer care, marketing and go-to-market teams to deliver complete user experiences. - Evaluation, testing, beta feedback and release validation for software builds, firmware, device setup, configuration settings, car profiles, and game compatibility. - Create business cases, financial inputs, forecasts, and market opportunity assessments for new software capabilities, extra features, and product improvements. - Help sales, marketing, customer care, and go-to-market teams understand software positioning, features, benefits, target users, competitive differentiation, and launch priorities. - Create executive overviews and proactively communicate project status, decisions, risks, issues, blockers, and recommended actions to stakeholders. - Create and maintain supporting product documentation, including release notes, FAQs, manuals, knowledge base input, setup guidance, recommended settings, and product profiles. </li