Product Operations Manager

Summary

Join Lokalise, a rapidly growing AI-powered translation platform, as their Product Operations Manager! This crucial role focuses on optimizing the Product Discovery and Development Lifecycle (PDLC) across various teams. You will streamline business planning, centralize roadmapping, and drive investment visibility. The ideal candidate possesses 5+ years of experience in a related field, strong project management skills, and expertise in Agile methodologies. Lokalise offers a fully remote and flexible work environment with competitive benefits, including health insurance, a co-working budget, and a learning & development program.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Product Operations, Program Management, or a related field in a SaaS or high-growth startup
• Project & program management skills - Ability to coordinate and execute cross-functional initiatives, ensuring seamless collaboration across teams
• Ability to scale operations - Comfortable identifying and implementing process improvements that enhance efficiency across product, design, and engineering teams
• Excellent communication & stakeholder management - Able to align leadership, distill complex information, and facilitate decision-making across multiple departments
• Expertise in product development processes - Comfortable working with Agile, dual-track development, and PDLC best practices to optimize Product Discovery and Delivery
• Background in Agile & workflow optimization – Proficiency in tools like Jira, Confluence, and Airtable to support operational efficiency
• Strong analytical skills - comfortable working with data to drive insights and decision-making
• A problem-solving mindset - you’re proactive, structured, and thrive in ambiguity

Responsibilities

• Enable a Healthy PDLC: Ensure teams follow best practices in Product Discovery & Development, improving efficiency and collaboration
• Support Business Planning: Streamline monthly business reviews and quarterly business planning, ensuring clear and well-structured materials for leadership discussions
• Centralize and Optimize Roadmapping: Work with product teams to create and maintain a transparent, structured, and dynamic roadmap, internally and externally
• Drive Investment Visibility: Establish a data-driven view of our investment split across maintenance, customer value delivery, strategic bets, and innovation—helping leadership make better decisions
• Program Manage Cross-Team Initiatives: Support large-scale programs that require collaboration across departments, ensuring alignment and execution
• Champion Operational Excellence: Identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies in our processes and proactively drive improvements while retaining the appropriate level of “scrapiness” and without increasing “red tape”

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with data-driven product portfolio management - Familiarity with tracking investment allocations (e.g., maintenance, innovation, strategic bets) using BI tools
• Exposure to localization, content management, or translation technologies in a SaaS environment
• Experience leading cross-functional, strategic programs in a scaling environment

Benefits

• Competitive salary and employee stock options plan
• Fully remote and flexible working hours
• Co-working budget
• Flexible vacation policy
• Equipment budget to set up your home office
• Learning & Development program
• Health insurance
• Wellness benefits
• Mental health support - every employee has access to a dedicated mental health platform
• Great startup atmosphere, team spirit, and team events