Lead Product Manager

Summary

Join Thoughtworks as a Lead Product Manager and play a pivotal role in shaping impactful digital products. You will cultivate strong client relationships, drive product development, and create go-to-market strategies. Responsibilities include defining key metrics, conducting market research, and managing the product backlog. Success requires a proven track record of delivering products, expertise in user research and agile methodologies, and strong collaboration skills. Thoughtworks offers a supportive culture with numerous development programs and opportunities for career growth.

Requirements

• Have a track record delivering successful products to market
• Work both the portfolio and product level — defining and executing a strategy, and shaping a vision and translating it into a roadmap with clear business and customer value-based measures of success
• Have experience in user research and a deep understanding of design methods and processes
• Have passion and perseverance for creating best-in-class software products which deliver an outstanding customer experience
• Have a good understanding of agile software development practices and product maintenance/support processes
• Enjoy leveraging data to improve one's understanding of user needs, product performance and value created for the customer
• Enjoy collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to determine the best product-market fit, technical implementation and release schedule
• Naturally cultivate effective collaboration between Thoughtworks and client teams by fostering open communication and advocating for shared outcomes
• Have a bias for action and can break down complex problems into tangible steps that drive product development at speed
• Provide thought leadership, leveraging your extensive expertise to advise stakeholders, facilitate workshops, coach product teams, introduce best practices, identify roadblocks and generate solutions for resolving them quickly
• Have a knack for prioritization, obtaining buy-in from stakeholders and resolving conflicts as they arise
• Be analytical; know that your product must provide tangible business value and can gather the right requirements and market data analysis to support your work
• Be right-brained; know the power of effective storytelling and can easily synthesize research insights into clear, impactful messaging
• Have a bias for action, and can break down complex problems into tangible steps
• Enjoy motivating committed, smart people to do the best work of their careers

Responsibilities

• Cultivate meaningful relationships with client stakeholders, bridging technical and business worlds while developing a deep understanding of a client's strategy, structure and business model
• Drive the overall product development lifecycle and continuously deliver undeniable value to our clients
• Create the go-to-market strategy, ensuring operational readiness to support the product experience
• Through collaboration with your product team and client stakeholders, build a shared product vision and roadmap and execute on it
• Frame and run rapid experiments to test new business ideas
• Define key metrics of success and use data to inform your decisions
• Track industry trends and the competitive landscape, undertake formative research, perform data analysis and generate insights to inform the product strategy and target market segment
• Own the product backlog while constantly evolving and prioritizing it based on user research, data and the latest changes in the market and the business
• Ensure ongoing buy-in and support from stakeholders and bring in external research to validate
• Contribute to the growth and impact of our evolving business by taking an active part in recruiting, community building, mentorship and driving best practices

Benefits

• There is no one-size-fits-all career path at Thoughtworks: however you want to develop your career is entirely up to you. But we also balance autonomy with the strength of our cultivation culture. This means your career is supported by interactive tools, numerous development programs and teammates who want to help you grow. We see value in helping each other be our best and that extends to empowering our employees in their career journeys
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