Product Manager - Product Manager Rain Bird Employee Review

2.0
May 19, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Challenging job with a high degree of responsibility and visibility to Senior Management for quality products sold worldwide. Opportunity to work with some very talented professionals focused on The Intelligent Use of Water.

Cons

The high degree of responsibility comes with little authority or control over the outcome. The Product Manager has almost no control over engineering, manufacturing, quality, distribution, sales, marketing, and pricing of the product line. These cross functional product team members are often given conflicting goals that limit team success. Even the smallest decisions are made by Senior Management but the Product Manager is held responsible for the outcome. This leads to constant turnover of Product Managers.

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Rain Bird Response
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Thank you for your helpful comments. First, we appreciate the hard work you have put into our company for the past year. Product Managers are some of the most important people at Rain Bird; they help identify and deliver the products to be developed and sold, and they are responsible for growing sales. This includes ensuring the delivery of top quality products and services, through the appropriate channels at the right price. Yes, Rain Bird does offer challenging opportunities with a great deal of responsibility. The talented people you work with are focused on one of the biggest challenges the world faces: the intelligent use of water. We recognize the structure at Rain Bird may be different than at other companies and as you mentioned this difference allows our employees to have a higher degree of visibility with senior management. This enables employees to put in practice their leadership and influencing skills, which are some of Rain Bird’s core competencies. No one person at Rain Bird is responsible for the overall success of a product – nor are you expected to be. We believe our matrixed cross-functional structure allows us to work as a team and never lose sight of the end goal. We welcome any additional suggestions you might have. Please send us an email at employeefeedback@rainbird.com.

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