Developer Experience Senior Product Manager
EY
The opportunity
The selected candidate will
- Be responsible for identifying, handling and executing product strategies for their function
- Drive platform experience across Fabric - Play a key role in influencing the user experience for the different personas of Fabric and all its capabilities
- The Senior TPM will interact with individuals up to the Partner rank socializing, identifying and recommending products
- This role is a primary contact and lead for all product aspects including strategy, user experience design, development, and deployment
- The role will continuously evaluate and validate product vision to anticipate and address changing business and user needs
- The role has profit and loss responsibilities for a product(s) ensuring it meets user, market, and business demand
- This role is responsible for helping to find opportunities for products to align to the firm’s broader organizational mission and strategy and that it is competitively positioned driving revenue and EY’s technological footprint in the market
Your key responsibilities
- Within large projects, define and maintain realistic project plans, supervise progress against agreed quality and performance criteria and ensures programs of work are correctly allocated and resourced
- This position is a leadership position responsible for defining the vision, strategy, and roadmap for a sophisticated product or a set of products within a product family
- Manage a mid-size team of product professionals
- This leadership position is responsible for thought leadership ensuring the product supports the organization’s overall strategy and goals
- Outstanding leadership with the ability to communicate the vision and goals of the product, product family, and offerings
- Drive strategy development, establish priorities and manage the roadmap using criteria and requirements defined during research
- Act as the customer advocate articulating the user’s and/or buyer’s needs
- Work closely with engineering, sales, marketing, and support to ensure business case and customer satisfaction goals are met
- Have technical product knowledge or specific domain expertise in products and platforms
- Drive EY ecosystem integration to deliver synergies for different service lines through Fabric capabilities – these include common technology assets taxonomy, technology governance data, cost models data, capabilities and jobs to do data
- Define what to solve in the market needs document, where you articulate the valuable market problem you’re solving along with priorities and justification for each part of the solution
- Run beta and pilot programs during the qualify phase with almost final products and samples
- In Agile environments, regularly reviews completed work and checks with customers to ensure that it meets the customer expectations
- Is a market professional. Market expertise includes understanding the reasons customers purchase products. This includes a deep understanding of the competition, and how customers think of and buy your product. Product Managers need market research and competitive analysis skills to complete these tasks
- Acts as the product’s leader within the company
- Develops the business case for new products, improvements to existing products, and business ventures
- Responsible for the development and positioning of 2-3 mid-size products or 1 large enterprise product that is global with responsibility for sophisticated customization. These products will supply to solutions being sold through service lines and will support multi-million-dollar revenue streams for the firm. Develops positioning for the product
- Recommends or requires an awareness of competitive pricing to understand how pricing impacts product profit margin compared to competition
- Execute the product plan, collaborating with product owner, engineering and other teams
- Demonstrate functionality of completed products to partners
- Develop metrics to assess the success of products and features and resolve vital enhancements
- Anticipate changes in market dynamics/models, adapts products, and creates product retirement and transitioning strategies
- Identify new products and features to create growth opportunities
Skills and attributes for success
- Manage cross service line collaborations with insights specific to the business of each service line delivering service line specific outcomes using Fabric capabilities
- Strategic and operational knowledge of taxonomy, technology governance, cost models, and marketplaces
- Ability to breakdown business requirements to specific user workflows and align that with platform strategy
- Experience with range of industry standards for development, engineering, and design tools that drives the roadmap and value proposition for Fabric offerings.
- Manage the product lifecycle including market requirements, product release plans, user stories, release criteria, product launch, and organizational readiness activities
- Collect market data and feature requests to define and prioritize the product backlog and manage the roadmap
- Partner with internal customers to validate requirements and priorities through various forums (analysis, meetings, focus groups, etc.) and refine those requirements for broad market applicability
- Collaborate with user experience, business analysts and engineers with a focus on defining product functionality and designing solutions that bring differentiating value to our current and prospective clients
- Supervise market changes and trends to assess competitive positioning and opportunities for strategic product enhancements
- Provide regular updates about product direction and release plans to the senior partners and clients
What we look for
- A self-starter, independent-thinker, curious and creative person with ambition and passion!
- Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
- Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
- Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
- Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.