Director, Product Management

RESPONSIBILITIES
The Director, Product Management will oversee the intersection of three main components of the successful Product Strategy: defining and owning the product direction; building and growing a product team, and establishing the product organization and processes.

• Evaluate and translate corporate strategy into a clear and concise product vision, while maintaining a close linkage with UL Solutions Mission.
• Use the product vision in concert with deep market understanding to inform the product portfolio strategy.
• Evaluate market needs against UL Solutions and competitors' unique abilities to address them.
• Develop and evaluate 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 high-level strategic initiatives into a product portfolio roadmap.
• Define a set of product portfolio goals, outcomes, and corresponding metrics to continually evaluate against.
• Evangelize and communicate the product vision, strategy, and goals internally with senior leadership, as well as externally with client and prospect executives.
• Develop product management-specific hiring framework, in partnership with HR.
• 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.
• Create and deploy an efficient cross-functional matrix structure to support the effective product development lifecycle.
• Define a robust set of processes to power all parts of the product development lifecycle from research/discovery to release management and product support.
• Lead the discovery, adoption, and standardization of portfolio management tools to be used across the product organization at each of the stages of the lifecycle.
• Perform other duties as directed .

QUALIFICATIONS

• University Degree (Equivalent to Bachelor's degree) in Computer Science, Business, or a related discipline; MBA or equivalent advanced degree is preferred.
• 10 years or more of related discipline experience or demonstrated competency including 5 years or more of relevant management/leadership experience or demonstrated competency.
• Experience managing platform / product teams.
• Leading remote teams is highly preferred.
• Project management certification is a plus.
• Facilitation skills - ability to lead groups of internal and external senior leaders and executives of all sizes towards desired outcomes in order to meet business objectives.
• Interview skills - ability to conduct discovery sessions with clients, prospects, and stakeholders in order to diagnose business opportunities, elicit requirements and conduct other types of research.
• Strong communication and presentation (PowerPoint) skills
• Product management tools - product design (e.g. Invision, Zeplin), development task management (e.g. Jira, Azure DevOps), documentation and knowledge (e.g. Confluence, SharePoint), collaboration (e.g. Microsoft Teams, Slack), roadmap and portfolio management (e.g. Aha!, Daptiv)
• Formal training and/or certification in Product management is a plus

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