Product Director - IOE

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Description

• Summary • As Product Director at IOE, you will lead the transformation of our product management practice, developing a high-performing team and ensuring that all products fit together cohesively to deliver a unified ecosystem. • You will mentor the product management team in developing the product vision, strategy, and roadmaps while ensuring harmonisation across products. • Your role will involve gathering community feedback to inform product direction, aligning emerging opportunities with market needs. • You will report to the General Manager of IOE, providing regular updates on milestones and progress toward strategic objectives. • Additionally, you will be tasked with crafting a robust strategy around IOE’s role in the vertical, leveraging both existing products and new opportunities within the ecosystem. • Duties • Mentor and build a high performance team • Mentor and build a high-performance product management team. Guide Product Managers in delivering outcomes that provide sustainable value and ensure alignment between individual products and broader business goals. • Make informed, analytical decisions to prioritise initiatives, ensuring the team focuses on the most impactful projects. • Coach Product teams in setting and analysing product objectives, continuously evaluating performance and making improvements as needed. • Drives strategic projects and initiatives in the business • Lead, drive, and provide direction to the product managers to ensure their success and professional development through ongoing learning and development. • Encourage a culture where great ideas are heard, evaluated, and invested in. • Global Product Strategy & Management • Collaborate with senior leadership to align the global product vision and strategy. Ensure that all products fit together harmoniously, creating a cohesive ecosystem. • Manage product lifecycle from strategic planning to tactical execution, incorporating insights from market research, customer feedback, and internal stakeholders. • Execute roadmap strategies and bringing valuable, highly differentiated and elegantly designed capabilities to market. • Customer Support • Engage with customers, partners, and community stakeholders to ensure their needs are reflected in product roadmaps and updates. • Conduct market research, surveys and customer/prospect visits to understand and specify requirements for target markets. • Leverage customer input to refine and quantify the potential of new product opportunities. • Product Marketing, PR and Business Intelligence • Collaborate with marketing and design teams to understand community and industry needs, positioning products effectively in the market. • Monitor competitive offerings, staying ahead of trends to ensure IOE products remain innovative and highly competitive. • Engage with marketing and communications teams to inform users about product updates, ensuring smooth and transparent communication. • Cross-discipline collaboration (Business development, Product management, Operations, Technical Architecture) • Managing the collection, description, analysis and prioritization of requests for new product functionality from customers, prospects, partners, sales, and market-driven forces. • Working with operations to gain awareness of potential defects and prioritizing their resolution in the product release plan and roadmap. • Working with Product Managers, Program Management & Engineering to ensure that features are delivered in the right sequence and meet business expectations in terms of quality, function and schedule. • Working with engineering and design teams to deliver a captivating, reliable, and easy to use experience with excellent UI. • Providing support on product selection, presentations and pricing strategy. • Collaborate closely with the technical architecture team to ensure alignment on system design, integration, and scalability, fostering efficient and scalable solutions across projects. • Technical Product management contributions • Providing technical guidance in evaluating applications systems or evaluating requests for proposals. • Working in an Agile Product Development process creating well thought-out and consumable user stories. • Leadership • As Leaders it is our responsibility to motivate, develop and progress our fellow team members. As a Leader there is a need to communicate openly with all members of your team, address any issues head on and not shy away from difficult conversations. • Empowering your team to provide the best results by organizing clear processes and coordinating team efforts should be your top priority.

Requirements

• Leadership: Strong leadership and mentoring skills to build and inspire high-performing teams. • Analytical Thinking: Data-driven decision-making capabilities with a focus on delivering the most impactful solutions. • Product Harmonisation: A strategic mindset to ensure that all products fit together into a cohesive ecosystem. • Community Engagement: Proven ability to gather and apply community feedback to guide product direction. • Collaboration: Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills to work with engineering, marketing, and design teams. • Innovation: Ability to stay ahead of market trends and drive product innovation in a competitive landscape. • Technical Knowledge: Understanding of blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies, with an interest in emerging trends. • Extensive senior experience in product management with several years in a leadership role. • Demonstrated experience on highly successful ventures in tough, competitive markets. • Product Management certification is a plus (CPM, AIPMM) • A background in distributed computing with at least 5 years of experience in blockchain or cryptocurrency technologies. • Experience working in an Agile environment and leading highly technical engineering teams. • Experience implementing processes to define metrics and measure the success of products that are launched. • Experience working with software development and marketing teams, preferably in fintech. • BSc/BA in a relevant field; MBA or other relevant graduate degree is a plus.

Benefits

• Remote work • Laptop reimbursement • New starter package to buy hardware essentials (headphones, monitor, etc) • Learning & Development opportunities • Competitive PTO