Senior Product Manager

Senior Product Manager needed at revolutionary anti-spam start up!

Key Responsibilites:

Act as liaison between Engineering, QA, Sales/marketing and Support to ensure timely delivery of Abaca's products to our target market.
Work cross departmentally to build consensus and obtain final approval on product roadmap, specifications and requirements.
Effectively communicate customer- and market - driven requirements and specifications to developers, QA, support, sales, and marketing. Develop supporting research and materials including use case scenarios, screen mockup, etc.
Confer with internal groups and finance to build consensus and define and communicate priorities using cost/benefit analysis, themes and groupings, customer urgency, etc.
Be accountable for driving resolution on questions and disagreements about product specifications and priority/sequencing questions.
Coordinate with Sales, Marketing and Engineering on the creation of product documentation and collateral as well as assist in coordination of trade shows and sales training.
Work with Marketing to develop promotional material for a successful product launch.
Manage interoperability requirements - supported platforms, tools, mail distribution agents, firewalls, identity servers, etc.
Enforce change control by obtaining sign-off on final drafts of specifications, managing changes to specifications either in the roadmap or by exception.
Light travel may be required.

Qualifications:

8-10 years of high tech experience specifically in inbound marketing, technical product management, software development, technical support or QA (must be technical enough to be able to successfully engage in consultative discussions with customers and internal partners in the capabilities, requirements, configuration and usage of Abaca's Email Protection Gateway).
Email security domain knowledge and experience is required.
Bachelors degree required preferably in Business Management or Marketing or an Engineering or other technical degree (MBA a plus).
Good strategic thinker. Must be able to participate in technical roundtable discussions and actively contribute to conversations about use cases, corner cases, special cases, interactions between new features, etc.
Should have an influential personality to be able to build consensus between all departments and advance priorities.
Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
Must be very detail oriented and extremely organized.