Product Lifecycle Manager
HybridCary, North Carolina, United States
Job Summary
Execute cross-functional programs for product lifecycle, migration, optimization, and end-of-life motions while developing data-informed recommendations on adoption, commercial health, and technical viability. Lead cross-functional readiness by aligning stakeholders, dependencies, and execution plans to create executive-ready reports summarizing lifecycle status, risks, and tradeoffs. Support customer-centered transition planning and enable product teams with playbooks, metrics, and repeatable processes for lifecycle decisions. Maintain transparent reporting dashboards and decision frameworks to guide investment toward strategic growth areas.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in product management, product operations, product lifecycle management, product marketing, program management, release management, or a related software business function.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives, build alignment through influence, and drive hands-on execution and accountability across teams.
- Bachelor's degree in a quantitative, technical, business, or analytical field such as Business Analytics, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, Finance, Statistics, or Data Science.
- Strong product judgment with the ability to balance customer needs, commercial outcomes, technical realities, and strategic priorities.
- Strong analytical capability with experience interpreting product, commercial, customer, operational, or financial data to identify trends, evaluate tradeoffs, and guide business decisions.
- Ability to synthesize ambiguous inputs into clear recommendations, metrics, reports, and decision-ready narratives.
- Strong communication skills, including executive-level communication, structured recommendations, stakeholder-facing updates, and practical operating guidance for product teams.
- Ability to design practical, repeatable processes that are understandable, implementable, and supported across the organization, with a focus on enabling consistent execution rather than advisory strategy alone.
- Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.
- To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with product lifecycle, product operations, product commercialization, or portfolio management in enterprise software.
- Experience with end-of-life, migration, legacy modernization, or product rationalization programs.
- Experience with SaaS business models, marketplace, partner, or channel strategies, pricing and packaging, or commercial readiness.
- Experience building dashboards, scorecards, or product health reporting.
- Experience with Jira, ServiceNow, product roadmapping tools, or enterprise reporting systems.
- PMP, Pragmatic, product operations, or related program/product management training.
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