Senior Manager - Product Management

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Role : Senior Manager Product Management

Job description:

Product Strategy and Roadmap:

- Expert in multiple domain areas across the product portfolio.

- Define strategy to ensure successful product delivery in one or many domains.

- Define corresponding product area roadmap with Parent Features focused on the impact to the business. Cross-Functional and Team Leadership:

- Build trust with a diverse team across multiple regions.

- Actively mentor Product Managers on roadmap management and how to keep focus on commitments while shifting and changing in response to the environment.

- Motivate, coach and lead a team of Product Managers for a specific domain to achieve department goals.

- Able to identify opportunities for change and to drive an initiative cross functionally with their teams.

- Work closely with engineering counterparts to create roadmaps based on capacity, come up with creative solutions to problems often thinking beyond their designated sub-stream, and make joint commitments on deliverables.

Adaptability and Management:

- Proactively manage schedule necessary to meet commitments, make recommendations to management when additional guidance is needed.

- Comfortable with the unknown and counsels PMs on the skills to pivot and shift as demands of the business and/or market change necessitating changes to the roadmap.

- Review and define overall roadmaps to ensure they align with business goals and strategy.

- Review and understand the Features being delivered by PMs across the team to ensure they are functional and complete and reaching the business objectives. Customer and Leadership Engagement:

- Has frequent conversations with customers to understand their challenges and uncover problems to be solved.

- Act as a trusted advisor to leadership, customers, and cross-functional groups.

- Articulate the value of solutions and understand how this impacts UKG bottom line through revenue, CSAT, etc.

Qualifications :

- Manager experience or equivalent leadership of a team

- Experience with data integration, developer tools and workflow solutions

- Demonstrated ability to lead and influence within a complex organizational structure.

- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and strategic thinking skills.

- Excellent communication, mentoring, and leadership abilities.

- Strong customer focus