Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. UL Solutions is a global leader in applied safety science, dedicated to transforming safety, security, and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers. They are seeking a Product Manager to lead the development of wire and cable products and services, focusing on product strategy, market evaluation, and product lifecycle management.
Responsibilities
- Use the previously established product vision in concert with deep market understanding to inform the product strategy
- 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
- 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 client users
- Take ownership of own career and professional development by documenting and communicating career aspirations and any associated development needs to their manager
- Support an efficient cross-functional matrix structure to enable effective product development lifecycle
- Execute a robust set of processes to power all parts of the product development lifecycle from research/discovery to release management and product support
Skills
- University Degree (Equivalent to Bachelor's degree) in Engineering, Science, Business, or similar
- 5+ years of experience in the Wire & Cable or Testing, Inspection, and Certification (TIC) industry
- Ability to lead small to medium groups of internal and external stakeholders towards desired outcomes in order to meet business objectives
- 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
Benefits
- Annual bonus compensation with a target payout of 20% of the base salary
- Health benefits such as medical, dental and vision
- Wellness benefits such as mental and financial health
- Retirement savings (401K) commensurate with the standard rewards offered in each individual location or country
- Paid time off including vacation (15 days), holiday including floating holidays (12 days) and sick time off (72 hours)
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