Friday, July 24, 2009

Cisco Flip Video job - Web Product Manager for Flipshare.com

Web Product Manager for Flipshare.com
San Francisco, CA

Description
Pure Digital Technologies, makers of the Flip Video line of easy-to-use video camcorders (http://www.theflip.com), is seeking an experienced Product Manager to play a vital role in the development of new web-based products and services. The central focus for this role is to provide cross-functional product direction for FlipShare.com, our new web-based sharing service. This contracting position will be based in our San Francisco office.

The ideal candidate is an independent, self-motivated, creative professional, capable of adapting quickly to a fast-paced environment and has significant product management experience in online and/or software applications, excellent communication skills, a strong intuitive sense of mass-market customer needs and a passion for video and social networking.

Key Responsibilities
- Define product plans based on high-level product strategy, roadmap, and business requirements
- Synthesize cross-functional input to identify tradeoffs and make recommendations, balancing capabilities, constraints, and priorities
- Define detailed product requirements to guide development teams in feature design, implementation and delivery, across the product lifecycle
- Work closely with development teams to detail features and design capabilities around an iterative functional release schedule
- Provide feature clarification throughout the development cycle, refining features as necessary
- Review milestone releases against product definition, resolving issues affecting expectations and providing direction on definition uncertainties

Experience
A strong candidate for this role will match many of these criteria:
- 5+ years successful, large-scale product management experience of consumer-targeted, technical products
- 5+ years experience working closely with interdepartmental teams, including engineering, product marketing, operations, customer service and business development
- Excellence in the creation of product requirement documents, detailing comprehensive product and feature definitions
- Excellent oral and written communication skills including the capability to extract the core essence out of complex scenarios, and the talent to motivate teams
- Experience with internationalization and localization is a plus

About the Company
Pure Digital Technologies, recently acquired by Cisco Systems, is a pioneer in developing simple, affordable digital imaging solutions for the mass market. The revolutionary Flip Video line ignited a new category of video cameras that puts the power to shoot, edit and share video into the pockets of everyday consumers. We are a dynamic, growing company with offices in downtown San Francisco.

We’re facing the challenges involved in developing a simple, intuitive, yet high quality product, and, in addition to hardware challenges, are focused on the software applications and online services that complete the Flip Video experience. Our vision is to make capturing, editing, sharing and socializing video both easy and fun.

Beyond the opportunity to work on a cool consumer electronics product, we offer competitive salaries, great benefits, and we’re even fun to work with.

Contact Information:
Email your resume to mohamali@cisco.com

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