Job responsibilities
- Oversees the product roadmap, vision, development, execution, risk management, and outcomes
- Leads the entire product life cycle through planning, execution, and future development by continuously adapting, developing new products and methodologies, managing risks, and achieving OKRs
- Ruthless prioritization and continuous backlog grooming in a highly dynamic environment
- Monitors market trends, conducts competitive analysis, and identifies opportunities for product differentiation
- Collaborates closely with product management, engineering, design, data and analytics and other teams to align on platform initiatives and drive coordinated efforts towards shared goals, advocating for customer-centric solutions
- Establishes effective communication channels to keep partners and stakeholders informed of updates, new features and best practices to nurture collaboration
- Attract, retain, coach, develop, inspire and motivate a team of high performing product managers of varying experience levels
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- 8+ years of experience or equivalent expertise delivering products, projects, or technology applications
- Extensive knowledge of the product development life cycle, technical design, and data analytics
- Proven ability to influence the adoption of key product life cycle activities including discovery, ideation, strategic development, requirements definition, and value management
- Experience leading change within organizations and managing stakeholders across multiple functions
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts in a clear and compelling manner, both verbally and in writing
- Demonstrated understanding of cloud computing fundamentals, SaaS technologies with the ability to effectively transpose technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience with agile operating models and design thinking
- Demonstrated expertise and knowledge of how to build a hybrid platform strategy and execute on it
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience with cloud platforms
- Experience with customer journey optimization and end-to-end experiences
- Proficiency in data analysis tools and techniques to measure the effectiveness of initiatives, derive actionable insights, and optimize strategies for continuous improvement
- Preferred experience in launching internal products
- Preferred experience supporting global products and requirements within a globally matrixed, heavily regulated organization