Position: RnD Products Director
Company: SoftServe
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

WE ARE
A deep-tech R&D team of SoftServe that applies expertise in Advanced AI and Edge Computing, Ambient Intelligence and Hardware Acceleration, Life Science, Quantum Computing, Human-Computer Interaction, and Technology Commercialization to cross-disciplinary research. We create bleeding-edge technologies both in-house and as a service for world-leading R&D customers, run multiple technology and academic partnerships, and expose our research at global events and conferences.

YOU ARE
A Bachelor (Master/Ph.D. preferred) in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Bioinformatics, Physics, Life Science or similar domain. MBA or Innovation management degree is a plus point
Possessing at least 2-year experience in a leadership and people management role
Having 2+ years of Technical Product Management or Product Marketing experience (i.e. creating strategic product roadmap(s) from conception to launch and working with cross-functional teams)
Confident in driving the product vision, go-to-market strategy, and design discussions
Showing customer-facing experience translating technical concepts and solutions to non-technical and executive audiences
Holding understanding of R&D and lean startup principles
Able to collaborate, build consensus, deliver, and drive technical decisions with various sized customer stakeholder groups
Successful in technical leadership, project management, analytical problem solving, and troubleshooting skills
Strong in business acumen in (one of) Industry 4.0, Media, Automotive, Life Science, Pharma, Healthcare
Ready for traveling to meet with specific partners and client stakeholders
Having hands-on technical experience and a deep understanding of machine learning, IoT and sensing, bioinformatics, XR, or a similar field is a plus point

YOU WANT TO WORK WITH
Leading the team of technical product management, design, and marketing professionals
Leading the growth of R&D products and services portfolio and ensuring its scaling
Driving the ideation, user research, development, and launch of innovative products and service offerings
Demonstrating the market traction and ensuring scaling of emerging tech products and services
The team closely on technology research and its early-on mapping to market use-cases. Reviewing relevant research publications or documentation and cooperating with senior researchers to understand scope, expectations, and risks
Facilitating successful interactions of SoftServe R&D lab with partner organizations
Clients/prospects, sales, and marketing hand-in-hand to commercialize developed technology, products, and service offerings
Participation in pre-sales and client engagements to develop a technology innovation strategy and execution roadmap for deep tech products

TOGETHER WE WILL
Be working closely with researchers and engineers, company customers, and leadership. You will lead the R&D Products team on the design and implementation of innovative products involving bleeding edge technologies. From defining and own product roadmap from initial idea validation and customer development to its implementation and positioning on the market.