Senior Product Manager
Date: May 25, 2023
Location: London, GB, SE1 9PG
Company: Optimizely
Optimizely is focused on unlocking the boundless potential of our clients and employees. We are a category leader in Digital Experience Platform (DXP) and have the pleasure of serving over 9,000 brands, from global organizations such as Visa, Sky, Yamaha, and Wall Street Journal to tech innovators like Atlassian DocuSign, FitBit, and Zillow.
Optimizely fosters an inclusive and diverse culture with a global team of 1500+ people spread
across the US, Europe, Dubai, Australia, Singapore, Bangladesh, and Vietnam. Our unique work environment focuses on flexibility, trust, teamwork, diversity, and moving fast.
We genuinely believe that our people make all the difference, and once we find the best talent, we go out of our way to nurture them. If you are looking to work on the next generation of digital technologies in a fast-paced and growing environment with industry leaders, Optimizely is the place for you!
Introduction
Individual contributor who owns a large product area.
• Excels at the product manager role
• Has thorough understanding of features and technology within product domain
• Recognized across the company as an expert in multiple
product areas; people seek out your expertise
• Good level of understanding of all relevant concepts within the entire product
• Work is consistently cross-functional and you become a
regular participant in cross-functional initiatives
• Trusted track record of quality, on-time work product
that has a measurable positive impact on the business
• Identifies and tracks the right metrics, consistently
meeting or exceeding personal goals
• Regularly uses rapid experimentation to learn quickly, iterate & get it right
Job Responsibilities
Collaboration & Communication: Influential in getting buy-in for complicated and long-term product investments, driving every stage of product delivery from ideation to enablement and adoption
• Develops meaningful relationships with key individuals internally and externally, regardless of level, to achieve business objectives
• Handles conflict and hard conversations directly and with maturity--can be trusted to lead through challenges or uncertainty
• Ensures their squad understands the company & department strategy and regularly communicates it
• Is a visible internal and external spokesperson for the product
• Is effective at motivating and leading the squad, providing required context, setting timelines, and reporting to leadership
Complexity & Decision Making: Establishes prioritization principles that inform consistent decision making
• Ruthlessly prioritizes with company objectives in mind, even if it means killing projects or trading team members to another squad
• Always looks for opportunities to reduce scope. Is pragmatic and clever when evaluating new ideas.
• Epitomizes an experimentation mindset always centered in hypothesis thinking and rapid experimentation
• Helps refine metrics & analytical models to improve quality of data-driven decision
• Executes the fundamentals of leadership and knows when to do vs. delegate, decide vs. empower
• Effectively communicates data and facts to leadership to drive fast decisions
Leadership & Inclusion: Starts playing a more active role in recruiting talent and team building
• Has a multiplier effect on ADEPT. Actively sought out by their squad and others for advice.
• Ensures design & engineering are engaged stakeholders in all product initiatives. Proactively solicits their input for roadmap items & planning.
• Nurtures a culture of inclusion and empathy; creates a safe space for open and honest conversation
• Reinforces positive behavior and results through timely praise
• Effectively influences, informs, and mobilizes others to achieve shared vision, mission, and goals
Drives Business Results & Impact: Delivered work has measurable positive impact on company and ADEPT performance; regularly reports on all products managed and leads others to do the same
● Connects company objectives to team work and defines measures to track impact
● Consistently challenges team to accomplish more than they think they can
● Sets a predictable cadence for product delivery and high bar for product quality
● Demonstrated ability to consistently solve large and unique problems by using a data and customer-driven process and tightly managing scope
Adaptability & resilience: Actively seeks out challenging projects and difficult feedback
● Adapts appropriately to changes in priority, using company strategy to quickly make changes in priority, staffing, or scope
● Could change squads or area of ownership with short notice; would need little support to be equally as effective in their new role
● Encourages and requests feedback, and when appropriate, modifies behavior, thinking, or projects without being defensive or discouraged
● Takes accountability for own professional development and actively pursues learning in alignment with the company strategy & vision
Knowledge and Experience
5-8 years product experience; or 3-5 years product experience with extensive experience with Optimizely (internal transfer or as a customer)
● Excels at and coaches others on the fundamental concepts, practices, and procedures of Product Management including data analysis, product requirements, prioritization, cross-team collaboration, and stakeholder management.
● Keen business acumen and has a strong understanding of the fundamentals of business success
● Work begins to scale beyond their core area of responsibility; regularly works cross functionally to support the end-to-end Product Development process
Education
N/A
Competencies
Optimizely is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Optimizely is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
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