Director of Product Management
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Location: Irvine, CA 92620
Description:
Title: Director of Product Management
Location: Irvine CA
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Skills and Knowledge:
Location: Irvine CA
Responsibilities:
- Work directly with external and internal customers to understand the critical market, segment, customer (VOC), and competitive and technology trends.
- Analyze quantitative market and financial data to identify opportunities, gaps, and risks; understand the product and portfolio ROI throughout the development, NPI and lifecycle phases.
- Define and deliver multi-generation product plans based on sound business cases and industry/technology experience.
- Conduct in-field hypothesis-based research (in cooperation with segment management and solution marketing) with prototypes and research guides to uncover latent customer needs.
- Clarify the definition, value and design of the products and each solution offering.
- Lead the definition and creation of detailed requirements for the product and services through visual tools, Agile Vision documents, User Stories, and other formal documentation methods.
- Develop innovative business models, value propositions, pricing models, and margin analysis.
- Manage marketing to plan and support the market launch.
- Work daily with segment management, R&D, technical support, professional services, order management, and other service organizations to meet product delivery KPIs.
- Proactively manage the product portfolio, including recommendations for solution consolidation and sunsets
- Gather, interpret, and make recommendations based on the market performance of offerings.
- Lead a team of product managers as a mentor and coach.
- Driving cross functional teams and stakeholders on behalf of the product/portfolio. Able to build an inspiring vision.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related field with MBA strongly preferred.
- Deep Product management experience (+10 years) with increasing levels of responsibility
- Experience in related technology spaces, ideally in SaaS, PaaS, Cloud Computing business models.
- Minimum of 8 years of demonstrated, successful team/people management, including cross functional leadership.
- Minimum 8 years of experience managing or working with Marketing
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in manufacturing and/or the EV industry.
Skills and Knowledge:
- Ability to build strong trust-based relationships in a highly matrixed organization and to create the vision and alignment to deliver the best solution for the customers.
- Ability to create, understand, and justify financial business cases and other market-based metrics.
- Ability to model, analyze, and manage financial performance and to articulate outcomes and impacts to Executive level teams on behalf of the portfolio.
- Excellent relationship skills, able to build rapport quickly and easily with domain experts, as well as sales and customer services leadership.