Senior Product Manager

Product Vision and Strategy

• Use the previously established product vision in concert with deep market understanding to inform the strategy for a group of related products, or individual products of high strategic importance

• Evaluate market needs against UL’s and competitors’ unique abilities to address them

• Support and contribute to a go-to-market strategy, describing how value will be delivered to the customer/user, how the product is differentiated from the competition, and what the business model should be

• Prioritize product functions and features into a product roadmap

• Help define and monitor a set of product goals, outcomes and corresponding metrics to continually evaluate against

• Evangelize and communicate the product vision, strategy and goals internally across the organization, as well as externally with clients and prospects

Team Building and Culture

• Actively model and promote a set of desired behaviors aligned with UL’s WoW

• Take ownership of own career and professional development by documenting and communicating career aspirations and any associated development needs to their manager

• Support career development needs of direct reports, by clearly defining expectations for their current role, actively soliciting their career aspirations and helping close any gaps

Product Organization and Processes

• Support an efficient cross-functional matrix structure to enable effective product development lifecycle

• Implement a robust set of processes to power all parts of the product development lifecycle from research/discovery to release management and product support

• Contribute to the discovery, adoption and standardization of product management tools to be used across the product organization at each of the stages of the lifecycle

Qualifications
• University Degree (Equivalent to Bachelor's degree) in Computer Science, Business, or a related discipline
• MBA or equivalent advanced degree is a plus
• 10 years or more of related discipline experience or demonstrated competency
• Experience managing product teams is preferred
• Working with remote teams is highly preferred
• Project management certification is a plus