Are you a dedicated Product Manager eager to make a significant impact? Our client is seeking a talented individual to join their dynamic team. Ready to be part of an amazing culture? Apply today!
If you specialize in Design system, UX , and Consumer experience, we’d love to hear from you!
About Golden Technology
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Job Description
Looking for a dynamic product leader with experience and passion for design and technology to lead design system teams. The design system’s mission is to enable product teams to build high-quality user experiences through user-centered, accessible, and cohesive design patterns, components, and standards at scale; enabling designers, product managers, and engineers to spend more time on solving customer problems than on surface-level UI details.
As a Senior Product Manager you will drive the vision and strategy for the design system area you are assigned. You will work alongside product designers, software engineers, and other product managers to minimize the gaps between design software and written code, with a focus on simplification and scale.
What you’ll do:
- Partner with stakeholders and take insights from user research to develop product vision and identify capabilities
- Aligned to company strategy and go-to market plans, communicate and create alignment with stakeholders including company officers and senior management
- Create requirements and future enhancements roadmap to support plans to meet OKRs
- Create highly collaborative working environments partnering with Product Design, Software Engineering, Creative Services, and Design and Product Operations
- Model Agile principles to increase speed and frequency of delivery by maintaining and communicating groomed backlog, providing 1-N prioritization for backlog and set criteria for Minimum Viable Product
- Provide leadership direction to direct and matrixed core team members, incorporating feedback from across all functions within product strategy and roadmap
- Create, maintain and communicate product roadmaps including near-term delivery/releases and 1-2 year product evolution
- Define product strategy, features, and criteria for evaluating vendors/partners to make ongoing buy, build or partner decisions
- Identify opportunities to create best-in-class capabilities leveraging customer & user feedback, team knowledge and expertise, and connecting to company strengths and resources
- Develop the plan and deliver breakthrough experiences to market working with technical and non-technical partners
- Measure, improve and continuously deliver to production
- Travel to work locations to attend company meetings
- Travel to interview/observe the users and/or customers
- Supervise and coach direct reports in the performance of their duties; complete performance reviews and provides feedback to direct reports
- Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation
Key Responsibilities
- 5+ years experience as a Product Manager with consumer-facing and/or B2B experiences
- Experience expanding existing products and developing emerging products
- Subject matter expertise – deep knowledge of design system best practices, with a focus on technical implementations such as design tokenization
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and leadership skills.
- Hyperfocus on the customer - Understands that being a successful product manager is about being effective at delivering a solution that solves a problem for customers. Gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services.
- Understanding of user experience methods and design tools
- Data informed solution design - translate business needs into practical applications and solutions; ability to identify metrics and key performance measures and use data to drive decisions which enhance the customer experience
- Communication - Strong persuasion skills and effective communicator; ability to communicate and evangelize a compelling vision internally and externally; ability to create and tell stories from data. Ability to successfully navigate and contribute to a highly matrixed environment.
