Sr Product Mgr I

RELX•Alpharetta, GA

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is an essential partner in risk assessment. In its Insurance vertical, it provides solutions and decision tools combining public and industry-specific content with technology and analytics to help customers evaluate and predict risk and improve operational efficiency across the insurance policy lifecycle. The Senior Product Manager I owns a product or one or more features within a complex product. The role develops commercially successful product strategy and leads project execution with minimal guidance, grounded in qualitative and quantitative customer understanding. The product manager builds strong technology relationships to address customer needs, provides input on new feature ideas, informally coaches more junior product managers, and participates in interviewing and recruiting product manager candidates. The role is hybrid in Alpharetta, Georgia.

Requirements

6–8 years of product management experience is suggested.
Recognized ownership of a product or a sizable feature of a complex product.
Experience releasing new products or features to market, from collaborative conceptualization through execution and post-release management.
Frequent customer engagement that leads to positive commercial outcomes.
Ability to understand customer use cases, competitors, and regulatory environments.
Ability to use data and metrics to make product decisions, including working with ambiguous or incomplete data.
Ability to develop product strategy, roadmaps, requirements, launch plans, and commercial cases.
Ability to work with technology and data counterparts and understand development approaches and product technology at a high level.

Nice To Haves

A bachelor's or master's degree in a technical subject, such as Computer Science or an Engineering discipline, is preferred but not essential.

Responsibilities

Gather, evaluate, and maintain a strong understanding of customer use cases; stay in close contact with customers to understand market direction.
Create processes that recognize customer needs and align or coach the team to meet them.
Understand competitors, the regulatory environment, market segments, and the needs of market sub-segments.
Use metrics to track progress on customer needs and ensure product efforts influence those metrics; identify relevant data, set KPIs and priorities, and maintain dashboards.
Analyze data from multiple sources, manage ambiguity, weigh conflicting priorities, and develop hypothesis-driven product evaluation strategies, including A/B testing for interactive products.
Develop go-to-market launch plans with customer-facing teams such as marketing and sales; draft public relations, marketing, and sales materials.
Develop or support pricing strategy when applicable and take independent accountability for assigned portions of launch and strategy execution.
Manage product sunset processes and external communications, including customer migration plans.
Participate in business strategic planning and contribute to sales and business development strategy.
Use understanding of the broader product experience to develop prototypes, drive product lifecycle components from planning through release, and help solve complex design challenges.
Write clear requirements for complex features or products and respond to requests for clarification; manage products with appropriate independence.
Develop and communicate product vision and roadmap aligned with business strategy; demonstrate return on investment and prepare product operating budgets.
Use competitor knowledge and data to inform product decisions, roadmaps, commercial decisions, and growth opportunities; write or support investment business cases.
Understand the company technology stack and platform, identify ways to use underlying technologies for new features, communicate with technology and data counterparts about development approaches, and learn relevant new technologies.
Analyze data using existing software packages such as Excel.
Take ownership of professional development, seek feedback and learning opportunities, and use networks effectively.
Solve problems by collecting facts, identifying and analyzing issues, proposing solutions, and managing day-to-day issues without intervention.
Develop and implement ideas that improve products or processes, build on others' ideas, and challenge the status quo.
Communicate clearly, listen and ask effective questions, provide direction, and explain business context.
Promote cooperation, solicit team input, facilitate discussion, resolve conflict, remove barriers to performance, and encourage collaboration across teams.
Build respectful working relationships and help motivate others through support, coaching, training, and development.
Share specialist knowledge, buddy new team members, and provide feedback to others.
Set clear expectations, follow through on commitments, promote urgency, and build commitment to individual and team goals.
Informally coach junior product managers and interview and recruit product manager candidates.