The Head of Product Management is responsible for understanding market demands, technology trends, and the competitive field. Directs and oversees all aspects of product life cycle management that meet market and user requirements and that facilitate rapid development and implementation of new products and enhancements. Being a Head of Product Management requires a bachelor’s degree. Manages the strategic product roadmap, product development, product launch, and product marketing. In addition, Head of Product Management typically reports to top management. The Head of Product Management manages a business unit, division, or corporate function with major organizational impact. Establishes overall direction and strategic initiatives for the given major function or line of business. Has acquired the business acumen and leadership experience to become a top function or division head.
Head of Product Management Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Head of Product Management to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Ongoing product support and maintenance for the full Product Life Cycle including end-of-life management;
- Define and support an approach to decision-making based on data and insights;
- Ensuring an ambitious yet achievable roadmap of all digital products across Shawbrook, to support the delivery of Shawbrookâs strategic objectives;
- Working with colleagues across the business to agree and refine product vision and strategy;
- Proposing and reviewing business cases for new digital product propositions and enhancements;
- Driving delivery of business and customer aligned products and associated outcomes;
- Being a source of product management knowledge and expertise within Shawbrook;
- Developing the product strategy and product roadmap (based on inputs from internal and external stakeholders);
- Building and continually updating credible product/project business cases;
- Understanding the market needs and identifying where Owlstone can profitably satisfy those needs;
- Ownership of digital product management working across all lines of business, ensuring a consistent approach from everyone in the product organisation;
- Translating the product roadmap into detailed product requirements which Owlstone can develop against;
- Developing relationships with stakeholders and key business areas of Shawbrook;
- Leadership, coaching and line management of the product teams at Shawbrook;
- Promoting and demonstrating results to enable stakeholder and business buy-in.
Requirements:
- Experience of managing successful delivery in an Agile software environment to deliver customer-led outcomes;
- Experience of working in a fast-paced environment, including start-ups;
- Excellent requirements / competitive analysis skills, pricing and financial planning;
- You are a connector, bringing people together you help make improvements even in areas you do not own;
- Experience in developing developer tooling products, technologies or platforms;
- Extensive experience and passion for the relevant product area and a deep understanding of the customer;
- Excellent technical capability;
- Computer Science or Software Engineering Degree (or equivalent experience);
- Experience in the Java Development Community;
- You have the ability to strongly influence decisions.