Product Roadmap Director

The Scoop on the Role: The head of product management leads our product managers/owners. This role defines, grows, and executes the product roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Portfolio Management: Responsible for the strategic planning and management of the entire Grouper product portfolio.
• Product Line Identification: Identify product lines to deliver against the product strategy.
• Process Improvement: Maintain and enhance new product development frameworks and processes to incorporate innovation and insight from across the organisation.
• Emerging Technologies: Maintain a strategic perspective on emerging research and innovation developments, particularly in privacy-enhancing technologies.
• Alignment and Communication: Ensure vision and goals of new product development are consistently articulated and understood across delivery teams.
• Collaboration with Product Marketing: Work closely with Product Marketing to ensure flawless execution of new product and feature launches.
• Team Leadership: Challenge and motivate the team, aligning goals and objectives with the product strategy and their professional development needs.
• Product Prioritisation: Ensure product prioritisation is strategically aligned and supported by robust business case and return on investment data.
• Market Evaluation: Evaluate competitor, market, and customer trends to inform product roadmaps.
• Roadmap Development: Empower the team to develop and maintain product development roadmaps for each product line, ensuring visibility across the organisation.
• Vision and Strategy: Maintain and refine the product vision based on corporate objectives, articulating a clear product strategy aligned with these objectives.

What We're Looking For

• Experience: 8+ years of experience leading product teams in enterprise B2B SaaS, preferably with big data experience.
• Process Development: Demonstrable experience in developing and executing new product development and prioritisation frameworks and processes.
• Analytical Skills: Advanced analytical and quantitative reasoning capabilities, leveraging customer, market, and financial data to inform product strategies.
• Technical Acumen: Ability to understand complex technical propositions and solutions. A technical background in business analysis, engineering, data, or data science is beneficial.
• Communication Skills: Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to rapidly build credibility at the C suite level.
• Goal Focus: Delivery and goal focus with a drive to produce products that have a meaningful impact on customers and the business.
• Education: University degree, preferably in business, information systems, or computer science.
• Passion for Product: A passion for developing products that make a difference to customers and the business.
• Adaptability: Highly adaptive and flexible with a background in leading teams through periods of ambiguity and uncertainty.
• Market Success: Proven track record in delivering high value proposition products to market, ideally with first to market experience.
• Roadmap Development: Demonstrable experience in developing and maintaining multi year product roadmaps with multiple parallel product streams in a fast paced environment.

Desired Experience

• Industry Experience: Experience in HRIS and/or GRC organisations is advantageous.