As a Product Manager, you will:
- Define Product Strategy: Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to define product vision, strategy, and roadmap. Understand user needs, market trends, and competitive landscape to inform decision-making.
- Prioritize and Roadmap Planning: Develop, own and maintain the product roadmap and backlog, prioritizing features and enhancements based on impact, risk, and value. Create detailed release plans and milestone tracking.
- Collaborative Prioritization: Facilitate stakeholder alignment through workshops, presentations, and written communication. Manage expectations and tradeoffs between different stakeholders.
- Requirements Gathering: Own requirements gathering, working closely with engineering, design, and research teams to create clear, concise, and actionable user stories. Validate assumptions and hypotheses through user testing, interviews, and surveys.
- Go-to-Market Strategy: Drive launch planning, coordinating marketing, sales, and support efforts. Monitor KPIs and adjust strategies as needed to optimize performance.
- Metrics and Performance Monitoring: Define and track key product metrics, such as churn rate, net promoter score, and usage patterns. analyze data to identify areas for improvement and communicate insights to relevant stakeholders.
- Stakeholder Communication: Serve as the primary point of contact for internal and external stakeholders, managing relationships and ensuring timely updates and feedback loops.
- Continuous Improvement: Stay up-to-date on industry best practices, emerging technologies, and competitor activity. Identify opportunities for optimization and automation, driving continuous improvement across the product lifecycle.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering.
- 3+ years of experience in software (or engineering) product management
- Demonstrated experience in defining and driving processes at scale across large organizations.
- Organizational and collaboration skills with a demonstrated history of successfully defining and driving initiatives that span multiple organizational boundaries.
- Excellent writing and presentation skills.
- Demonstrated experience in presenting and reporting to leadership teams.
- Demonstrated ability in successfully delivering initiatives with varying levels of ambiguity.
- Demonstrated experience in the entire software development lifecycle. Understanding of application development is a plus.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, combined with a strategic orientation.
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
- MBA or Masters in Engineering preferred.
- Passion for driving increased efficiency across teams in multiple multinational locations.