Product Specialist Mid (remote)

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Job description

Client: Bayer Corp

Duration: 12 months +

Location: remote

Description:

Per our client's policy, individuals hired for this position must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 unless otherwise prohibited by law. We comply with federal, state and local laws with regard to accommodations related to this policy.

What you'll do:

You will drive user adoption of the platform by creating communications, training, and documentation to empower business partners. You will be collaborating with development teams and will leverage your deep subject matter expertise to deliver customer centric solutions. Using audio/video tools, you will comfortably present to large audiences both live and virtually and calmly and patiently answer questions about our platforms. You will passionately serve our partners to your utmost ability with a high level of professionalism.

You thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where you work cooperatively with many other people including development teams, business stakeholders and end users. You are able to effectively prioritize your day to ensure results on both short-term immediate initiatives while advancing bigger picture, long term efforts. You can effectively leverage your well-developed T-shaped skills, which balance depth of subject-matter expertise with a breath across many competencies, in order to effectively communicate both with IT geeks and science nerds. You love solving both technical and business-related problems.

Required Education and Skills/Experience:

• Must have one of the following:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or similar discipline and 3+ years' experience supporting the life cycle of software products (development, testing, launch, training and/or support), OR Equivalent combination of education and relevant experience. Candidates with no bachelor's degree must have a minimum of 5 years supporting the life cycle of software products
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Entrepreneurial drive and demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in an innovative and fast-paced environment
• Experience in the agriculture or biotech industry

Desired Education and Skills/Experience:

• Some knowledge of field research/experimental setup
• Experience with agile methodology and/or SCRUM
• Knowledgeable across multiple functional areas such as software design & development, user experience, customer support, finance or marketing
• Product management or design experience with a focus on software products and technologies

Additional Information:

• We need someone with either science or engineering in their background - in addition to, the strong communication skills and training experience we had in the job description.

• In her previous roles, they ultimately extended offers to all that seemed to really enjoy training people on new products and concepts and it's so important for people in this Product Specialist role to be able to get users excited about change, not just resigned to it

• Who will this person work with on a daily basis? The Product Manager, development team, and end-users of our applications.
• What are the 'must haves' to be successful in this role?

o Background in Science or biology

o Self-motivation

o attention to detail

o sense of ownership

o good communication skills

o "big picture" thinking.

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