Senior Product Manager
About The Position
This role exists to determine the best way to solve validated business problems through Innovation & AI. The Innovation & AI Product Incubation Lead transforms strategic opportunities into validated Innovation & AI solutions through discovery, experimentation, prototyping, and pilot execution. This leader owns the end-to-end incubation process — from discovery and user research through POC / prototype, solution definition, proven hypothesis and transition into Product Engineering for productizing the solution and working closely with Product Engineering (Covista Product Management & engineering team) to execute and deliver on the business outcome. The role partners closely with Innovation & AI Product Strategy, Innovation Engineering, Product Families, UX, Architecture, and Engineering to reduce delivery risk before future investment into productizing the solution. It is a highly collaborative, inward-facing product leadership role focused on building the right solution, validating assumptions quickly, and ensuring Product Engineering receives well-defined, execution-ready initiatives. The core mission is to answer the question: What is the best solution to this business problem, and is it worth scaling? This role leads discovery, validates customer and business assumptions, prototypes solutions, and prepares initiatives for successful transition into Product Engineering.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree Required and Master's Degree Preferred.
- Ten (10) plus years of professional experience, preferably with supervisory experience.
- Experience leading Innvoation & AI Products
- Track record of leading successful teams that generate consistent revenue growth, implementing programs and developing competitive response campaigns.
- Requires critical thinking and problem solving skills, strong teamwork, negotiation and delegation capabilities.
- UX research experience.
- Clear indication of progressive responsibilities including a track record of managing complex issues, preferably in a dynamic, high pressure culture demanding high quality thinking and output.
- Superior team skills with proven ability to collaborate successfully with all organizational functions and levels with emphasis on building strong, productive relationships.
- Must possess excellent problem solving and strategic thinking abilities.
- Ability to influence and partner with internal and external customers.
- Must possess excellent written and verbal communications skills.
- Experience building MVPs
Responsibilities
- Conduct user research
- Define product vision
- Validate user problems
- Validate opportunities identified through Innovation & AI Product Strategy
- Lead design thinking workshops
- Build product hypotheses
- Validate desirability, feasibility, and viability
- Define an experimentation strategy to determine the Minimum Marketable Product (MMP) needed to validate business value
- Partner with Innovation & AI engineers
- Define Innovation & AI use cases
- Evaluate Innovation & AI capabilities
- Define data requirements
- Assess technical feasibility
- Manage Innovation & AI risks
- Create PRDs
- Prioritize discovery activities, prototypes, and poc learning
- Define user stories
- Establish success metrics
- Partner with UX
- Drive iterative learning
- Define pilot strategy
- Lead pilot execution
- Measure adoption
- Validate business outcomes
- Refine based on learning
- Recommend readiness for transition into Product Engineering based on validated customer, technical, and business outcomes
- Partner with Product Families
- Support engineering execution
- Ensure knowledge transfer
- Remain engaged through delivery
- Support enterprise rollout
- Continue partnering through delivery to protect validated assumptions and intended business outcomes
Benefits
- Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
- 401k Retirement Program + 6% employer match
- Participation in Covista’s Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy
- 12 Paid Holidays
- Annual incentive program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
