Summary/objective
The Senior Vice President of Product Management will manage the growth and development of our entire product portfolio and build the new product pipeline to deliver profitable growth across all products. This leader will manage business plans to align departments and achieve company objectives while leveraging customer insights to identify new business opportunities that support the product management team’s development plans. This role will lead cross-functional category initiatives that deliver incremental growth in line with our long-range plans and will align with marketing, sales, and business leadership to implement successful product launches across all offerings. This position will work closely with internal and external engineering and operations stakeholders to ensure product development success, manage and/or assist in cost control initiatives across all categories, and provide overall leadership and direction to their team. This person is a member of the Executive Leadership Team of a rapidly growing technology business.
Essential Functions
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.
- Develop and execute a comprehensive growth strategy for the product portfolio, aligning with our long-range plans and business goals.
- Develop and execute a comprehensive global growth strategy for the entire product portfolio, aligning with our long-range plans and business goals
- Evaluate and respond to external factors, market dynamics, and emerging competitive landscapes.
- Integrate the brand design into the product development process in partnership with the marketing organization.
- Drive the development and adherence to our one-company operating model in alignment with the planning and NPD process.
- Continuously work to refine the process and elevate the team to maximize its potential.
- Drive efficient decision-making to enable on-time delivery of key inputs supporting the new product pipeline.
- Serve as the primary point leader for product management, building strong partnerships and influence across the enterprise by proactively partnering with the business leader of each line of business to ensure that the product development process incorporates their knowledge, feedback, approval and provide them with analysis of outcomes.
- Lead and develop a world-class product management organization to ensure strategic objectives are achieved, mentoring members of the product team to help improve their product management abilities while also developing their domain expertise in the automotive industry.
- Ensure discipline in the product management process from discovery to delivery in the form of cadenced steps and milestones, thereby ensuring incremental value delivery to our customers with active measurement of success or failure.
- Integrate the product plans of new acquisitions into the overall strategy, focusing on growth and creating synergy.
- Play an active role in identifying potential M&A targets.
- Leverage market analysis and collaborate with external market research partners to identify customer trends and insights, ensuring alignment with and across product strategies.
- Incorporate future thinking and other forms of research to guide our long-range R&D / Innovation pipeline.
- Plans, organizes, evaluates, and directs the employees within the department function.
- Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover all possible activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Master’s degree required
- 15+ years of related experience, preferably in the automotive industry
- Experience working with automotive software business models is required.
- Product lifecycle management experience, particularly product launch, is required.
- Track record successfully leading projects that require partnership and alignment with cross-functional teams is required.
- Skilled in Microsoft Office, including Excel and project management solutions.
- Skilled at identifying new trends and opportunities, evaluating competition, and translating findings into executable customer product plans.
- Ability to offer a fresh perspective from a deep understanding of customer insights and how they relate to product assortments.
- Ability to lead a successful team of direct reports (both on-site and remote).
- Ability to effectively communicate and present to senior-level management.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 20+ years of product development experience is strongly preferred.
- Pragmatic Institute Certification in Product Management
- Jobs to be Done theory experience
Supervisory Responsibilities
This role has supervisory responsibilities.
Work environment
This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, and printers.
Physical Demands
Physical requirements include occasional lifting/carrying of 5 pounds; visual acuity, speech, and hearing; hand and eye coordination; and manual operating a computer keyboard and basic office equipment. Subject to sitting, standing, reaching, walking, twisting, and kneeling to perform the essential functions. Working conditions are primarily inside an office environment.
Travel required
Occasional travel will be required; 25 - 30%.
Work authorization/security clearance requirements
N/A