Web Project Manager/Product Manager

Company Information: Headquartered in Vancouver, Washington, Dotster, Inc. is one of the world’s largest and preeminent ICANN accredited domain name registrars with several million domain holdings under management and hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide.

At Dotster, our mission is to provide a range of innovative, reliable and easy-to-use Internet solutions to our customers and to support them with unprecedented, personalized support.

Dotster has carefully nurtured relationships with consumer, small business, and corporate customers. It has built a feature-rich line of value-added services around its core domain name product offering. By bundling services and providing one-stop shopping, Dotster has successfully grown and enjoyed increased breadth and loyalty of its customer base. Dotster has strong profitability and is backed by Baker Capital.

Today, Dotster is proud to be a dynamic worldwide leader in Domain Registration, Web Hosting, Custom Website design, applications development, and online marketing. As the industry continues to advance, Dotster is excited to continue to break new ground in innovation.

 

 

Job Summary:  The Web Development/Product Manager is a position created as two separate roles. Initially, acting as a Web Development Manager, the position will lead high profile web design, development, and application projects and act as the primary client contact and team leader.  At project completion, the position will transition to a Product Manager, acting as the primary contact for on going client requests, escalations, projects and marketing activities. 

 

Responsibilities/Essential Functions:  

 The role of Web Development/Product Manager will lead a team across several different disciplines, web developers and programmers, designers and content writers to design and produce quality web projects for our clients. Will work with outside vendors, contractors, freelancers and third-party service providers as necessary to complete projects. Oversees the delivery of our client’s web based projects, day-to-day client communications, relationship building, and all aspects of project delivery.  Owns the overall project deliverables and delivery schedule, tracks and reports project milestones, and status.  Additional responsibilities include developing statement of work documents, scheduling, reporting, and authoring requirement definition documents.  Coordinates and facilitates all resources to assure project deliverables are completed on time.  Reports progress on projects to the client and Dotster management. In collaboration with the first client, begins formulating a sense of the target market and value proposition that will enable an effective transition to the Product Manager role.

 

 

 

 The role of Product Manager will be responsible for identifying unique selling propositions through additional customer segments, product definition, and competitor positioning.  This individual will now be taking a product that has already been proven in the initial phase and will expand it to new customers. Key to this effort will be identifying the core needs that the product solves and then hypothesizing what other customers would also benefit (i.e. establishing the target segments). This person will develop market sizing, revenue plans, and go-to market strategies through pricing and promotions, messaging, bundling and feature release. He/she will then execute the product rollout.

 

 

 

Knowledge: Understand common web development, CMS and design technologies, open source and proprietary applications.  Demonstrate the understanding of any technology, language, or development environment needed to successfully lead a team. 

 

Skills: Handle infrastructure issues to support projects, estimate and manage projects by effectively applying methodology and enforcing project standards, lead and direct internal and external teams that are appropriate to project objectives.  Effectively manage client expectations, vendors, resource demands and competing priorities, identify and eliminate road blocks and inefficiencies.

 

Abilities: Strong communication skills in written and verbal form, link creative vision to reality, manage change effectively, independent thinker, problem solver, works well with little supervision, multi-task, and strong leadership characteristics.  

 

Requirements: 

·  Bachelors or higher degree in Computer Science, Business Administration or related field.

·  Four to five years website design or similar experience.

·  Prior experience in product management

·  Must be able to communicate potential issues and opportunities. 

·  Must be self-starting, motivated leader, and team player.Use of personal computer applications (MS OFFICE) and Internet related toolsSocial Networking experience preferred.

 

Working Conditions:

 

Office EnvironmentBased in Vancouver, WA