Director, Product Strategy Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Director, Product Strategy to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Advocate Manifest MedEx products to current and future customers;
- Implement and manage an ongoing resource allocation and prioritization mechanism to complete key product deliverables with allocated budget;
- Working with the Product Team, establish and deliver against the MX product roadmap;
- Manage the product team (3 direct reports) as a leader, mentor, coach, and colleague;
- Oversee key analyses, e.g., market and competitor assessments, financial performance analysis;
- Lead data gathering and conduct research and analysis (quantitative and qualitative);
- Establish strong relationships with key product leaders to ensure alignment in strategic vision and supporting opportunities;
- Connect the innovation road-map to new products in line with KION strategy & brand positioning;
- Strong executive presence and command skills;
- Organize and manage a virtual team of Product Strategy experts in different locations;
- Approaches conflicts as opportunities; understands others quickly; can find common ground without comprising total position;
- Assure common understanding, clear and transparent decision-making based on reliable documentation for future product decisions;
- Oversee analyses to understand the Old Navy product competitors and consumer needs;
- Oversee the delivery of timely, zero-defect execution of analysis;
- Partner with cross-functional partners and analyze consumer insights data to identify actionable opportunities for Old Navy.
Requirements:
- Strong attention to detail and well organized;
- Experienced in Agile/Scrum software development processes;
- Savvy business sense and excellent problem-solving skills;
- Proven track record as a manager of highly trained and capable teams;
- Excellent communicator in all forms: presentations, written, conversational;
- Ability to travel as needed;
- 5+ years of product management experience;
- Action-oriented, analytical self-starter;
- Commercial understanding for products and projects;
- design, content and execution;
- Deep understanding of products with regards to technology, functionality, application and cost structure;
- Strong finance skills with understanding of P&L management;
- Demonstrable experience of both product strategy development;
- Demonstrable leadership and influencing skills of peers, business partners, clients and associates;
- Experience in modular concepts incl. the consideration of system and process interfaces.