Job Description

CONSTRUCTION PROJECT AND PERMITTING SOFTWARE PRODUCT MANAGER

e-PlanSoft is looking for that special person to be our Product Manager. We are a customer focused software company that’s changing the way agencies do construction plan review. Do you know the difference between permitting software and plan review software? Are you obsessive about ease of use and simplifying complex processes? Do you like working in an environment that is supportive, challenging, and full of talented people? If you said yes, then be our product manager and help us build software that helps government and private agencies collaborate on construction plans and design reviews. We’re building the next generation of our products, and we want someone with as much passion for building quality software as we do.

WHO WE ARE…

We are a small startup that is changing the way people collaborate on construction plan review projects. We’ve been around for more than ten years, winning contracts over our big name competitors. Based in Irvine, California we are a team of highly talented individuals.

The job involves the following responsibilities:

• Defining the product vision and roadmap
• Gain a deep understanding of customer experience, identify and fill product gaps and generate new ideas that grow market share, improve customer experience and drive growth
• Create buy-in for the product vision both internally and with key external partners
• Translate product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes
• Defining the product vision and roadmap
• Work closely with engineering teams to deliver with quick time-to-market and optimal resources
• Drive product launches including working with public relations team, executives, and other product management team members
• Evaluate promotional plans to ensure that they are consistent with product line strategy and that the message is effectively conveyed
• Act as a product evangelist to build awareness and understanding
• Represent the company by visiting customers to solicit feedback on company products and services
• Determines customers’ needs and desires by specifying the research needed to obtain requirements.
• Recommends the right solution to customers by reviewing product specifications and requirements.
• Assesses market competition by comparing the company’s product to competitors’ products.
• Assesses product market data by calling on customers with field salespeople and evaluating sales call results.
• Provides information for management by preparing short-term and long-term product sales forecasts and special reports and analysis, answering questions and requests.
• Brings new products to market by analyzing proposed product requirements and product development programs; preparing return-on-investment analyses; establishing time schedules with software engineering
• Introduces and markets new products and product features by developing time-integrated plans with sales, advertising, and production.
• Maintains product management staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional groups.
• Industry names such as Accela, Tyler EnerGov, Computronix, BasicGov, Infor, Plangrid, Bluebeam are not foreign to you.

WHO WE THINK WILL BE A GREAT FIT

We’re looking for someone who is passionately obsessed with changing the way people do things that out-dated based on the technology we have today and tomorrow. You’re smart enough to work at top companies, but you’re picky about finding the right place to spend your time and talent. You’re awesome, but humbled. You want to work with smart people and have fun building something great. Overall, that person exhibits our H4O philosophy of honesty, happy, hungry, and outstanding –we call that the H4O person!

You also meet most (if not more) of the following requirements:

• Understand how permitting software works
• Construction project management experience
• Passion for improving government process especially with regard to permitting
• Know how to write software requirement documentation
• Understand how to read construction plans
• Proven track record of managing all aspects of a successful software product throughout its lifecycle
• Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies
• Strong problem solving skills and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job done
• Experience with Agile methodologies using JIRA.
• You’re so much fun to work with, that if you were working on the weekends, we’d want to join you (not that we will, but we may)
• Proactive individual who never stops learning

BENEFITS & PERKS

• Small, fun startup culture.
• Paid holidays, PTO and the opportunity to be part of a successful startup.
• Generous benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability, HSA, FSA, etc
• Located near the Irvine Spectrum.
• Collaborative and energetic environment working with young talented, fun-loving, humble and hard-working people.

Company Description

Providing Construction/Permitting Compliance Software for Owners, Government Agencies and AEC Industry: e-PlanSoft offers market leading compliance software for design, construction, inspection, and assessment processes. ePlanSoft’s collaborative, web browser-based products have been designed by industry experts for architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) companies as well the state, county, and municipal agencies charged with code creation and enforcement.