Senior Product Manager

Position : Senior Product Manager - Design System

6 months contract

Cincinnati, OH

Skills : 5+ years experience as a Product Manager with consumer-facing and / or B2B experiences

• Experience expanding existing products and developing emerging products
• Partner with stakeholders and take insights from user research to develop product vision and identify capabilities
• Aligned to company strategy and go-to market plans, communicate and create alignment with stakeholders including company officers and senior management
• Create requirements and future enhancements roadmap to support plans to meet OKRs
• Create highly collaborative working environments partnering with Product Design, Software Engineering, Creative Services, and Design and Product Operations
• Model Agile principles to increase speed and frequency of delivery by maintaining and communicating groomed backlog, providing 1-N prioritization for backlog and set criteria for Minimum Viable Product
• Provide leadership direction to direct and matrixed core team members, incorporating feedback from across all functions within product strategy and roadmap
• Create, maintain and communicate product roadmaps including near-term delivery / releases and 1-2 year product evolution
• Define product strategy, features, and criteria for evaluating vendors / partners to make ongoing buy, build or partner decisions
• Identify opportunities to create best-in-class capabilities leveraging customer & user feedback, team knowledge and expertise, and connecting to company strengths and resources
• Develop the plan and deliver breakthrough experiences to market working with technical and non-technical partners
• Measure, improve and continuously deliver to production
• Travel to work locations to attend company meetings
• Travel to interview / observe the users and / or customers
• Supervise and coach direct reports in the performance of their duties; complete performance reviews and provides feedback to direct reports
• Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation

Key Responsibilities

• 5+ years experience as a Product Manager with consumer-facing and / or B2B experiences
• Experience expanding existing products and developing emerging products
• Subject matter expertise deep knowledge of design system best practices, with a focus on technical implementations such as design tokenization
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and leadership skills.
• Hyperfocus on the customer - Understands that being a successful product manager is about being effective at delivering a solution that solves a problem for customers.

Gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services.

• Understanding of user experience methods and design tools
• Data informed solution design - translate business needs into practical applications and solutions; ability to identify metrics and key performance measures and use data to drive decisions which enhance the customer experience
• Communication - Strong persuasion skills and effective communicator; ability to communicate and evangelize a compelling vision internally and externally;

ability to create and tell stories from data. Ability to successfully navigate and contribute to a highly matrixed environment.