Senior Product Manager – Professional Standards

About the Company Versaterm is a global public safety solutions company helping agencies transform how they serve their communities. Since 1977, we’ve been building an ecosystem of intuitive tools designed for public safety agencies, forensic labs, court systems, schools and other institutions. Through purposeful integrations and a selective growth strategy, we focus on improving workflows to help our customers achieve more efficient operations, better service and more just outcomes.

The Role As a Senior Product Manager, you will help shape the standards and wellness ecosystem that enables public safety to maintain public trust and a high‑performance culture through a robust standards accountability process and provide proactive support of their first responders. In this role, you set strategic direction and drive complex feature prioritization and adoption across teams. You will own the product’s P&L and pricing strategies, working closely with customers, marketing, designers, and engineers to deliver solutions that simplify complex workflows and enhance community safety. This position is both strategic and hands‑on — balancing long‑term product direction with day‑to‑day prioritization.

What You Do Setting Strategy

Define the product’s vision and long‑term strategic direction, ensuring alignment with company objectives and customer needs.

Clearly articulate the business case and customer value for each initiative or feature.

Lead strategic planning by identifying major areas of investment, building business cases, and securing internal approvals.

Serve as the recognized subject matter expert on the product, the market, technology trends, and the competitive landscape.

Use P&L insights to guide roadmap prioritization, ensuring financial targets are considered.

Defining the Roadmap

Translate product strategy into actionable plans, determining what to build and when to release it.

Build and maintain both a detailed development roadmap for internal teams and a high‑level roadmap for executives and customers.

Gather input from customers, internal stakeholders, market research, and industry insights.

Partner with engineering, design, and cross‑functional teams to ensure delivery that meets market needs and quality standards.

Establish pricing strategies, define core product positioning and messaging, and drive go‑to‑market launch plans.

Evaluating and Prioritizing Features

Collect, develop, and curate ideas from customers, sales, and internal stakeholders for the backlog.

Prioritize features by balancing user value, development effort, time to market and competitive differentiation.

Track and evaluate product performance including sales, feature adoption and user satisfaction.

Run trials, pilots, and MVPs to validate assumptions and refine the product before broader launches.

Perform ongoing market and competitor research.

Analyzing and Evaluating

Track and evaluate product market performance including sales, renewals and win/loss data.

Track and evaluate product financial performance including revenue, operational costs and P&L impact.

Track feature adoption, usability and user satisfaction to drive continuous improvement.

Stakeholders and Key Work Partners

Collaborate internally with engineering, design, sales, marketing, partner success, support, implementation, finance, legal and the leadership team.

Engage externally with customers, end‑users and partners to gather feedback, build relationships and deliver demos.

Promote the product through training, sales enablement, webinars, newsletters and direct customer interactions.

Act as a product evangelist and build trust as a leader across the business.

What You Bring Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, or related field. Advanced degree or relevant certifications (e.g., Pragmatic Marketing, CSPO) are a plus.

A minimum of 7 years of product management experience within a software organization.

Experience with pricing strategies, business cases and P&Ls.

Experience developing and executing modernization strategies, including transitioning legacy solutions to cloud‑based architectures.

Experience establishing value propositions, product messaging and go‑to‑market strategies.

Proven experience overseeing all elements of the product development lifecycle.

Strong understanding of Agile frameworks, and AI centric development with Claude Code.

Highly effective cross‑functional team management and the ability to influence up, down and across the organization.

Exceptional writing, editing and presentation skills.

Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.

Asset Qualifications

Experience with Aha! Product Management software.

Familiarity with software engineering concepts such as APIs, databases, cloud platforms and mobile apps.

Demonstrated ability to leverage AI technologies to enhance product capabilities or operational efficiency.

Experience with Public Safety professional standards, wellness or Case Management Systems (CMS).

Note Due to the nature of our work with public safety agencies, this position requires compliance with the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Security Policy. Candidates must successfully pass a comprehensive, fingerprint‑based background check. Specific customer contracts may impose additional security verification requirements. Obtaining and maintaining all required security clearances is a condition of employment. For more information on CJIS security requirements, please visit the FBI’s CJIS Security Policy Resource Center.

Versaterm is committed to fair and equitable compensation that is competitive, consistent, and aligned with the value each role contributes to our organization. The starting salary for this position will be dependent upon many factors, such as the successful candidate’s skills, experience, education, training, internal equity, market data and business needs. In addition to base salary and our comprehensive benefits offering, some roles may also be eligible for variable compensation such as incentive plans or discretionary performance bonuses.

Versaterm does not use AI in the recruitment process. All stages of recruitment decisions are led by people, including our qualified acquisition team and our experienced hiring managers.

Versaterm is an equal‑opportunity employer and is committed to equity, diversity, inclusion and a barrier‑free workplace. Accommodations are available upon request throughout all stages of the recruitment process and apply to the terms and conditions of employment. For more information, please contact info@versaterm.com.

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