Position: Head of Product Management
Company: Intellias
Category: Product Manager
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2021-08-01T00:00:00+03:00

Intellias moves towards becoming a trusted provider of a full cycle IT offerings, starting from product ideation and innovation management and ending with legacy product maintenance. A dedicated organization, Technology Office, is the key owner and facilitator of enabling such offerings. Products and Services Group, a strategic segment in Technology Office, consists of high-end professionals with a consultant skillset, aiming to provide product- and solution-oriented services to a wide range of potential, new and existing customers. We are looking for the skilled leader who can build the Product Management practice and services.

Job purpose
Lead product management unit: support problem framing, product ideation, and innovation in new engagements; define and provide high-value product management services, build competence and develop community, manage senior experts and relevant processes.

Responsibilities
Build the approach and team to drive product management in product discovery phases and relevant consulting for new engagements. Support business development and pre-sales functions at Intellias across entire product life cycle.
Grow cross-company product management competence and community with relevant internal standards, best practices catalog, recommended tools and templates.
Develop product management services portfolio, and promote these services inside and outside the company.
Introduce and enhance Product Management phases in company's delivery cycle.
When needed, act as a consultant: analyze pain points for target market, define urgent and pervasive market problems, gaps in problem-solution fit, and product-market fit. Define business needs and goals. Propose product vision. Ensure that final result covers client business needs, client expectations on delivered value, and Intellias capabilities.
Identify ways to assist senior product management in product planning through providing market analysis, niche identification, ideas for customer segmentation and other parts of the product strategy within the delegated responsibilities.
Mentor other product managers, organize knowledge sharing and training programs, contribute to Intellias’ corporate knowledge base.
Manage team of product management experts, conduct general monitoring activities to ensure timely and efficient results. Ensure high performance with planning, hiring, onboarding, and evaluation. Coordinate remote distributed team.
Maintain own long-term roadmap and contribute to achieving the company strategic objectives.
Care about continuous improvement of internal and external customer satisfaction.


Education:
Master degree in Computer Science or Engineering (desirable) ;
Business education (desirable) ; 

Specialized Knowledge:
Clear understanding of principles and specifics of software and product development life cycles;
Clear understanding of principles and specifics of customer development lifecycle;
Extensive knowledge of product management activities, techniques, and best practices;
Understanding of marketing to be able to perform market analysis, understand trends and opportunities;
Awareness of IT industry and digitalization trends for 3-5 previous years (desirable);
Knowledge of requirements management tools (at least JIRA & Confluence);
Knowledge of prototyping tools and modeling approaches;
Industry domain knowledge (desirable, in automotive, location, finance, telecom) ;
Systems domain knowledge (desirable, e.g. ERP, CRM, IoT) ;

Skills & Abilities
Very strong English verbal and written communication skills;
Listening skills, to understand what people say and to detect what they might be hesitant to say;
Strong analytical skills for critical assessment of information from numerous sources;
Setting clear priorities and time-management. Ability to handle multi-tasking;
High flexibility. Ability to modify approach as per changing stakeholders, conditions, circumstances and feedback. Quick learning;
Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills;
Self-confidence. Ability to accept criticism for continuous improvement;

Professional Certification
Pragmatic Marketing or similar (desirable);

Experience
IT industry experience: 4 years or more, including collaboration with clients abroad;
Experience in product management: 4 years or more, including driving product ideation, discovery phases, and managing teams (directly or indirectly);
Experience in Agile methodologies: 2 years or more;
Experience in training development and conduction (desirable).
Proven experience in working with a variety of cultures, countries and time zones.

Working Conditions
Tight schedule with significant amount of communication.
Simultaneous handling and fast processing of multiple tasks.
Comfortable offices and facilities.
Flexible working hours.
European management style, cross-company focus on continuous improvement and low bureaucracy.
Collaborative, open for feedback corporate culture.