Position: Senior Product Manager - Design System
6 months contract
Cincinnati, OH
Skills: 5+ years experience as a Product Manager with consumer-facing and/or B2B experiences
- Experience expanding existing products and developing emerging products
- 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.
