Senior Product Manager

Summary

Join Veeva Systems, a leading life sciences industry cloud company, as a pioneering product manager to build the company's first horizontal application on a new enterprise software platform. Collaborate closely with the SVP of New Markets and CEO to define this new application. You will be responsible for market research, data model building, functional specification writing, and working with engineering to ensure platform flexibility. Design intuitive UI flows and create product roadmaps. Work directly with customers to meet business needs and serve as the application's evangelist. This role requires 7+ years of product management experience in enterprise application platform features, a strong understanding of SaaS data models, and exceptional communication skills. The position offers competitive compensation and benefits, including flexible PTO, retirement programs, and various insurance options.

Requirements

• 7+ years of product management experience, including defining a data model and leading successful launches of enterprise application platform features
• Strong understanding of enterprise software, SaaS data models, and metadata-driven architectures
• Strong product sense and knowledge of how a SaaS data model influences the features and user experiences built on the platform
• Familiarity with modern software development practices, APIs, and enterprise-grade technologies
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical audiences and translate complexity to simplicity
• Demonstrated empathy for end users as well as admins, with the ability to translate customer pain points into application features
• Enthusiastic yet pragmatic approach to applying AI to specific application features, with a focus on substance over style
• Located in the Pacific or Mountain time zones to facilitate collaboration during core working hours

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with the SVP of New Markets and CEO to define a new horizontal enterprise application
• Research the market to identify and design a core set of application features
• Build the data model and write functional specifications for implementation by application developers
• Become an expert with our new metadata-driven enterprise software platform that will be used to build the application
• Work with the product and engineering teams to ensure the platform can support all of the application’s functional requirements
• Design UI flows and work with a designer to ensure the application is intuitive, fast, and visually appealing
• Create and maintain product roadmaps
• Work with customers to ensure the application meets business requirements
• Serve as the application’s evangelist, driving excitement and understanding internally and externally

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on metadata-driven application platforms
• Knowledge of low-code or no-code development environments
• Familiarity with large-scale enterprise application categories like HR, ERP, CRM, etc
• Exposure to agile methodologies and product management tools like JIRA, Confluence, or similar
• Experience building products for global, multi-language markets
• Background in a successful enterprise SaaS company, startup, or fast-paced environment where adaptability is key

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance
• Flexible PTO and company paid holidays
• Retirement programs
• 1% charitable giving program