This role partners closely with Product and UX peers, Engineering, Architecture and Solution Delivery to ensure decision making and communication within the train as well as across key stakeholders in production/engineering as well as other teams/functions dependent on the platform. Communication skills are paramount to reach a wide range of stakeholders at various levels and deliver an excellent customer experience (internally and externally).
To excel in this role, the candidate must navigate ambiguity and effectively translate strategy into actionable plans. They should be adept at conducting research using both quantitative and qualitative data to guide their product recommendations. The ability to integrate business leaders' needs and enterprise transformation initiatives with iterative, tangible value delivery is crucial. The ideal candidate will possess humility, curiosity, and strong influencing skills to drive a shared vision for the future.
Areas of Focus
- Product Strategy and Discovery: Lead the discovery process to understand problems by inventory needs across the enterprise, including product segments and customer personas. Collaborate with business leaders to ensure product strategy aligns with business objectives. Partner with cross-functional groups, stakeholders, and clients to inform discovery efforts. Approach product recommendations balancing long-term enterprise needs with short-term incremental value delivery.
- Operational Execution: Translate strategic product roadmap priorities into executable work (as Rally milestones and epics) that creates short-term value aligned with long-term enterprise needs. Collaborate with Product Management and UX colleagues to ensure alignment across the product portfolio.
- Agile Development: Apply agile methodologies effectively in a complex, enterprise environment. Build relationships across product, UX, engineering, architecture, and solution discovery. Ensure teams understand the product vision and execute in a way that incrementally delivers value and have a healthy pipeline of meaningful product work consistently available.
- Adoption Planning: Apply customer mindset to internal capabilities to inform product development and launch activities. Collaborate with product readiness, product/engineering teams, business stakeholders and implementation and customer support partners. Balance operational scalability with cost and speed to market.
- Client Engagement: Engage with internal and external clients throughout the discovery process to gather feedback and input on product ideas.
- Product Success: Assess product performance against KPIs and provide insights to improve product performance and inform future roadmap priorities.
Skills and Characteristics
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 8 years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 6years' experience; a Ph.D. and 3 years' experience in a related field; or 12 years' experience in a related field
- 7+ years of experience in software Product Management.
- Serve as a source of technical knowledge in primary discipline or technical area.
- Critical thinking - apply critical thinking skills to solve challenging problems for complex enterprise products. Not afraid to ask hard questions and engage in difficult conversations.
- Written and verbal communication - can articulate customer problems and solution value precisely and influence cross-functional teams effectively. Ability to motivate and serve as an evangelist for the cause to gain buy-in and alignment. Skilled in communicating with peers and leaders in cross-functional groups and with dealer clients.
- Highly organized - ability to prioritize multiple competing priorities and build a plan to drive complex projects forward with bias for action.
- Growth mindset - committed to continuous improvement and receptive to constructive feedback for personal and professional growth.
- Collaborative problem solving - proactively seeks input and insights from others, adept at handling disagreements and finds creative solutions to achieve win-win outcomes.
USD 119,700.00 - 199,500.00 per year
Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary of $119,700.00 - $199,500.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.
Benefits:
The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
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