Леруа Мерлен ищет Product Director.
Mission:
- Ensure the consistency of the product portfolio of a domain by bringing technical and product expertise and working in collaboration with the operational domain leader
- Anticipate and organize all the changes in a domain, to reach the goals of a 2-3 years vision
- Make the skills and process of product teams grow
- Ensure the development of the team through mentoring and skills development
Tasks:
- Maintain a complete view of existing products and emerging needs
- Define the roadmap vision for all products, together with each product manager
- Manage the product lifecycle and their integration into the platform
- Coach product managers during the implementation of their products
Responsibilities:
- Strategy vision: research market, competitors, products and customer studies; search for new market opportunities and innovations; define product vision and strategy
- Change management communication: communicate and present strategic changes to key stakeholders; approve strategy with executives, shape their expectations of new opportunities and products; attend events to promote product value proposition and strategy
- Strategy execution: prepare team and backlog split to execute enablers backlog; coordinate regular cross-functional alignment; ensure planned changes and products are going live
- Personnel development and coaching: regularly mentor team members and develop their skills: performance feedback, management and technology knowledge sharing
- Market Tester: measures the success of a new product or feature and decides either to scrap it or expand it
- User Advocate: understands what motivates certain actions of users
- Decision maker: ensure planned changes are going live
- Translator from business to developers: has technical skill and can translate features into developer language (and from developers to business). Responsible for technical quality of the product in general
- Motivational Speaker: must convince & motivate team to work together on one vision
- Diplomat: negotiate & coordinate with different departments for a product release
- Smooth Talker: communicate progress to higher ups, can turn a roadblock into an insight or even an opportunity
Requirements:
- Experience in similar position 3+ years
- Understanding specifics of large omnichannel companies with a distributed front-office, with experience in sales, payment and customer service areas