Senior Product Manager
IL
About The Position
We are seeking an experienced and hands-on Senior Product Manager with the potential to grow. The ideal candidate has a strong development background and experience working in both, corporate and startup environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Product Roadmap & Strategy
- Break down the product strategy into an annual and quarterly product roadmap
- Monitor the implementation and progress of the product roadmap with R&D
- Update the product roadmap regularity according to recent developments
- Product Management
- Develop Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) according to the roadmap
- Align the PRDs with R&D (front- & back-end, data science), TechOps & CSM
- Execute and manage the implementation process of the development end-to-end like a project crossing silos and solving bottlenecks and roadblocks
- Lead the product lifecycle management, from ideation to market delivery, ensuring a customer-centric focus throughout
- Collaborate with engineering, marketing, sales, customer success and other departments to ensure product success and alignment with business objectives
- Market & Customer Intelligence
- Maintain a deep understanding of industry trends and emerging technologies to keep the product roadmap innovative and competitive
- Conduct market and competitive analysis to identify new product opportunities and improvements to existing offerings
- Partner with the executive team to define product pricing, positioning, and go-to-market strategies
- Measure customer satisfaction and follow-up to gain deeper understanding
- Measure feature adoption and tool usage to derive potential need for action
- Team & Process Management
- Establish and ensure professional and agile ways of working (e.g., using the right tools for project management and product analytics)
- Setup regular reporting to monitor product success and product management effectiveness
- Orchestrate and prepare regular meetings (e.g., AOP, PRD progress updates) involving the relevant stakeholders (e.g., C-level, R&D)
Requirements
Key Qualifications:
- Proven experience as Product Manager, or similar roles, preferably in both corporate and startup environments
- A strong development background is a must, with hands-on experience in software development or engineering roles
- Demonstrated ability to manage the full product lifecycle, from conception to launch
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a data-driven approach to decision-making
- A customer-first mindset, with a deep understanding of user experience and product design principles
Experience:
- At least 4-5 years of experience in product management
- At least 2 different positions / companies in product management
- Ideally working experience in software development / engineering
- Experience or interest in retail and/or pricing domain