Senior Product Manager

About Beck Technology:

On top of being a 5-time winner of the Best Places to Work in Dallas by the Dallas Business Journal, Beck Technology is a uniquely positioned software company creating technologies to make the world a better place to live by focusing on rethinking early-stage decision-making in preconstruction.

Our products are the most successful, state-of-the-art 2D/3D integrated preconstruction suite of tools for estimating and bid leveling on the market today. We elegantly enable our clients to leverage their preconstruction data in ways never before possible.

Our passion, our innovation, and our caring culture have afforded us enormous success and have continued to make Beck Technology an amazing place to work for over 25 years. 

About The Job:

We empower our product teams to solve hard problems – customer problems and business problems – in ways that work for our business, yet our customers love. Our product teams are cross-functional and durable, generally comprised of a product manager, a product designer, and several engineers. 

We staff our product teams with the skills necessary to come up with effective solutions that are valuable (our customers choose to buy or use), viable (the solution works within the many constraints of the business), usable (the user can figure out how to use), and feasible (our engineers have the skills and technology to implement). 

While the product designer is accountable for ensuring the solution is usable, and the engineers are accountable for ensuring the solution is feasible, the product manager is accountable for ensuring the solution is both valuable and viable.  

To do this, the product manager must bring to the team a comprehensive understanding of business constraints, such as those from marketing, sales, service, finance, legal, and privacy. They also need a deep understanding of our users and customers, along with data on how customers interact with our products. Additionally, the product manager tracks industry trends and the competitive landscape to inform product decisions.

While each product team member is accountable for specific risks, we seek product managers who understand that consistent innovation comes from every team member contributing their passion and ideas. The product manager must collaborate closely with the product designer and engineers to discover effective solutions and work together to deliver them to market.

We empower our product teams to determine the best solutions to address the problems at hand, but we also hold them accountable for delivering results. Shipping is necessary but not sufficient. We value product managers who embrace accountability for outcomes, even when achieving those outcomes requires influencing and working through others.

This job, as with the other roles on the product team, is an individual contributor role. You will need to be able to influence your teammates, as well as colleagues, stakeholders, and key executives, through your use of data and logic. 

Although this position is based in Dallas, TX, we have a hybrid work environment and support flexible and full-time remote team members. 

Necessary Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Demonstrated understanding of the techniques and methods of modern product discovery and product delivery.
• 7+ years working on technology-powered products as either a product manager, product designer, engineer, data analyst, data scientist, or user researcher.
• Demonstrated sound understanding of multiple functional areas of business – engineering, design, finance, sales, and marketing and how their needs intersect with the product and product teams.
• Demonstrated ability to figure out solutions to hard problems with many constraints, using sound judgement to assess risks, and to lay out your argument in a well-structured, data-informed, written narrative.
• Proven ability to engage with engineers, designers, and company leaders in a constructive and collaborative relationship.
• Within 1 month have working knowledge of our industry, our core values, and our core behaviors.
• Within 2 months demonstrate understanding of our product roadmap and the competitive landscape
• Within 3 months have a deep knowledge of the products you will be responsible for and move from supportive to leading product management responsibilities for that product including product discovery, opportunity mapping, solutioning, user story mapping / creation, and communication of product initiatives internally and externally.

Diverse Perspectives: 

We know that innovation thrives on product teams where diverse points of view come together to solve hard problems in ways that are just now possible. As such, we explicitly seek people that bring diverse life experiences, diverse educational backgrounds, diverse cultures, and diverse work experiences. Please be prepared to share with us how your perspective will bring something unique and valuable to our product teams.