Lead Product Manager - Remote

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Description

• The Lead Product Manager will be responsible for owning a specific product or one or more features within a complex product ecosystem. • This role involves developing a commercially successful product strategy and leading its execution with minimal guidance from management. • The Lead Product Manager will represent the product domain internally among peers and managers, as well as externally when needed. • Additionally, this position includes managing a small team, with responsibilities for recruitment, development, and the overall success of team members. • Maintaining close contact with customers to gain insights into market direction considering multiple factors. • Leveraging analytics and other insights to enhance understanding of customer needs. • Creating processes that excel at recognizing customer needs. • Aligning and coaching the team to ensure customer needs are fulfilled. • Understanding competitors and the regulatory environment. • Segmenting markets and gaining deeper insights into the needs of those sub-segments. • Leveraging metrics to track progress on customer needs and ensuring product efforts align with those metrics. • Pulling and accessing data from multiple sources, managing through data ambiguity. • Communicating KPIs that measure team success. • Coaching others on how to analyze information for problem-solving. • Identifying the most important data to consider and setting KPIs, priorities, and dashboards. • Analyzing data using existing software packages (e.g., Excel) comfortably. • Overseeing the development of clear go-to-market launch plans through coordination with external customer-facing teams like marketing and sales. • Drafting PR, marketing, and sales collateral while coaching others on the same. • Being independently accountable for portions of launch and strategy execution as assigned. • Understanding the broader product experience thoroughly. • Driving key end-to-end lifecycle components, from planning to release. • Comprehending the company's SDLC processes, including agile methodologies. • Helping drive solutions for complex design challenges. • Writing clear requirements for intricate features or products and being responsive to requests for clarifications. • Managing product efforts without direct supervision, involving managers or senior leaders only when necessary. • Developing product vision and roadmap aligned with business strategy and communicating it across all critical stakeholders. • Understanding and communicating the necessity of demonstrating a return on investment. • Using knowledge of competitors to inform product decisions and roadmaps. • Writing or supporting business cases for investment. • Utilizing data to drive commercial decisions and identify growth opportunities for the product. • Understanding the company’s technology stack at a high level for the broader product. • Utilizing or extending the company's platform and underlying technologies to create new product features. • Speaking knowledgeably with tech and data counterparts about development approaches under consideration. • Learning about new technologies to support product development efforts. • Analyzing data using existing software packages (e.g., Excel) comfortably. • Releasing new product or product features to the market, from collaborative conceptualization to execution to post-release management.

Requirements

• Must have at least 8 year's experience in Product Management. • Demonstrate experience in development and execution of a business-case level investment. • Have a track record of hiring and managing people • Have a BA or MA level education in a technical subject (Computer Science or Engineering discipline) is ideal but not required. • Have experience with releasing new product or product features to the market, from collaborative conceptualization to execution to post-release management. • Expert-level oral and written communication skills; must be able to communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. • Expert-level ability to deliver client presentations and performance analysis via the telephone and in-person to high-level clients. • Must have a minimum of 6 years of project management experience.