Lead Product Manager

Referrals Only • Chicago, IL

1d • Remote

About The Position

The most impactful digital products in the market today are the direct result of a seamless blend of business strategy, design and technology. Orchestrating this behind-the-scenes integration is a Product Manager, who prioritizes the customer experience from vision to execution and, together with their team, guides all workstreams toward a common vision and plan for delivery. Lead Product Managers are trusted advisors to senior stakeholders and are responsible for understanding their needs, driving commercial results and supporting them on their journey to providing more successful customer experiences.

Requirements

• You have a track record delivering successful products to market.
• You can work both the portfolio and product level — defining and executing a strategy, and shaping a vision and translating it into a roadmap with clear business and customer value-based measures of success.
• You have experience in user research and a deep understanding of design methods and processes.
• Passion and perseverance for creating best-in-class software products which deliver an outstanding customer experience.
• Good understanding of agile software development practices and product maintenance/support processes.
• You enjoy leveraging data to improve one's understanding of user needs, product performance and value created for the customer.

Nice To Haves

• You enjoy collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to determine the best product-market fit, technical implementation and release schedule.
• You naturally cultivate effective collaboration between Thoughtworks and client teams by fostering open communication and advocating for shared outcomes.
• You have a bias for action and can break down complex problems into tangible steps that drive product development at speed.
• You provide thought leadership, leveraging your extensive expertise to advise stakeholders, facilitate workshops, coach product teams, introduce best practices, identify roadblocks and generate solutions for resolving them quickly.
• You have a knack for prioritization, obtaining buy-in from stakeholders and resolving conflicts as they arise.
• You're analytical; you know that your product must provide tangible business value and can gather the right requirements and market data analysis to support your work.
• But you're right-brained, too; you know the power of effective storytelling and can easily synthesize research insights into clear, impactful messaging.
• You have a bias for action, and can break down complex problems into tangible steps.
• You enjoy motivating committed, smart people to do the best work of their careers.

Responsibilities

• Cultivate meaningful relationships with client stakeholders, bridging technical and business worlds while developing a deep understanding of a client's strategy, structure and business model.
• Drive the overall product development lifecycle and continuously deliver undeniable value to our clients.
• Create the go-to-market strategy, ensuring operational readiness to support the product experience.
• Through collaboration with your product team and client stakeholders, build a shared product vision and roadmap and execute on it.
• Frame and run rapid experiments to test new business ideas.
• Define key metrics of success and use data to inform your decisions.
• Track industry trends and the competitive landscape, undertake formative research, perform data analysis and generate insights to inform the product strategy and target market segment.
• Own the product backlog while constantly evolving and prioritizing it based on user research, data and the latest changes in the market and the business.
• Ensure ongoing buy-in and support from stakeholders and bring in external research to validate.
• Contribute to the growth and impact of our evolving business by taking an active part in recruiting, community building, mentorship and driving best practices.

Benefits

• The annual salary range posted is subject to many factors and may vary depending on experience, geographic location, job responsibilities, performance, skills and/or training.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed