Product Manager - Internet/Online

Job Description :

- As a Product Manager, you will have technical ownership of critical parts of Assessment delivery technology. You'll lead a talented and nimble team of team leads, engineers to create innovative ways to streamline delivery.

- Responsibilities include managing a high performing team of engineers, process and quality of service improvements, strategic planning, project management for software within the team, and management of resources across teams.

- Successful candidates will be strong leaders who can prioritize well, communicate clearly, and have a consistent track record of delivery.

- You will run Agile development teams, and will support multiple stakeholders across AM and externally.

- You will be a key player in driving technical planning, project execution, development of engineering talent, and the ongoing operation and improvement.

- The ideal candidate will be passionate about solving the toughest software challenges; you'll be excited by working at huge scale, and you'll have a proven record of delivering highly operable and maintainable software projects on time.

- You'll have relentlessly high standards for yourself and everyone you work with and you- ll be constantly looking for ways to make the systems you own better.

- You'll be intensely customer focused: you understand your customers challenges and are constantly looking for ways to solve them.

- You have great communication skills, and enjoy working in a fast-paced, collaborative team environment.

Responsibilities :

- Be responsible for the end to end ownership of technology teams, communicate the vision, plan, execution, monitoring & review for the product area.

- Build and manage great software engineers that are responsible for developing and maintaining software used for delivering assessments to a global audience.

- Be a champion of engineering and operational excellence: establish group-wide metrics for measurement of engineering and operational excellence and a consistent, regular process for assessment and improvement, you will need to be comfortable working in a "deep dive" environment

- Establish a consistent, project management framework and excellent development processes across multiple development teams to deliver high quality software, in rapid iterations, for business teams serving multiple geographies

- Show strong business and technical judgment that will accelerate time to market of releases, while incrementally moving our services towards the long term vision

- Be responsible for mentoring and developing Senior Engineers

- Represent the technical organization and evangelize the work to senior leadership

- Raise the bar on technical excellent, show thought leadership, and communicate well to different audiences

Desired Skills and Experience :

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering

- A minimum of 2 years of management experience (managing engineers)

- A minimum of 5 years of relevant development and design experience

- Experience with high scalability requirements

- Experience designing distributed systems

- Experience with employee development, performance management and delivering results.

- Problem-solving skills and the abilities to analyze quantitatively, scope technical requirements and effectively prioritize

- Presentation and written communication skills are essential, as is the ability to build partnerships with senior leaders across a variety of groups

Preferred but not mandatory :

- Experience managing teams that design and support large-scale distributed systems in a 24x7 production environment

- Proven experience establishing metrics for measurement of engineering and operational excellence