Collaboration Cast

This email recently went out to Jive Employees:

As Jive finds it necessary to lay off 1/3 of its staff, Vignette welcomes the Jive team to check out our job postings and consider a career at a company that is investing, and will continue to invest, in a long-term Social strategy.

Vignette is financially strong and can weather these difficult economic times.  We are based in Austin, Texas one the best places to live in the United  States.

 In addition to our focus on social software, Vignette provides a comprehensive suite of web experience management products, which will give you a lot of opportunity to work with many technologies that are defining  the future of the web.

Let us know if you are interested.  We are always looking for top talent that is experienced in the social space.

Sincerely,

Dave Dutch

Sr. Vice President of Products and Marketing

Collaboration,Product Management,Enterprise Vendors,Web 2.0,Job Listing

Recently I noticed how many collaboration job openings were being posted by enterprise vendors seeking experienced product managers.  BEA, Sun, Microsoft, Xerox, Interwoven, Open Text, Webex, and many start-ups were all looking for at least one product manager with web 2.0 experience.  In some cases there were as many 3-5 openinings at the same company.After some further investigation, the increase in job postings was not only attributed to market growth, but to previous product managers leaving to focus on a Web 2.0 start-ups. Some times the whole product management team would end up leaving. The knowledge drain for sure will impact many product roadmaps and strategies. Collaboration companis are desperate for talent.  So if you are looking for a new job in product management, then you should look at companies who have a focus on collaboration technologies. If you are experienced in the collaboration industry, send me your picture and bio and I would like to post it in our experts section.   Best of luck!