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🧭 Full-Time
🔍 Product Lifecycle Management
- 7+ years of relevant experience in technical program/project management, with a strong focus on Product Lifecycle Management, Lean Portfolio Management and Product Delivery.
- Proven experience leading cross-team PLM programs, including defining projects, gathering requirements, and coordinating feature rollouts.
- Expertise in product lifecycle best practices, including roadmap execution, compliance, and process optimization.
- Familiarity with Agile, SAFe, or similar methodologies for managing large-scale technical programs.
- Experience analyzing cost/benefit of feature development and managing trade-offs in the product lifecycle.
- Strong customer-centric mindset, ensuring that PLM strategies align with business and user needs.
- Exceptional communication, writing, and organizational skills, with the ability to engage effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- A passion for building high-quality products, improving efficiency in PLM processes, and ensuring seamless product execution from inception to retirement.
- Oversee and optimize the end-to-end product lifecycle, from ideation, roadmap planning, development, launch, and post-launch enhancements.
- Define and implement best practices in Product Lifecycle Management, ensuring smooth transitions between lifecycle phases.
- Interact with cross-functional stakeholders, often requiring strategic alignment and political sensitivity.
- Identify potential risks and dependencies, drive mitigation strategies, and ensure cross-functional alignment to meet business objectives.
- Create and maintain program timelines, consolidating key milestones and communicating overall program health at all organizational levels.
- Facilitate stakeholder alignment, ensuring each vertical team understands overall objectives, development timelines, and dependencies.
- Present issues and risks formally to leadership and key teams, offering strategic recommendations.
- Work closely with engineering, product, operations, sales and customer success teams to ensure seamless product launches and iterations.
- Challenge organizational processes that do not contribute to value delivery, proposing improvements to PLM workflows.
- Establish and implement processes that promote team collaboration, transparency, and innovation at an organizational level.
- Track adherence to schedules and ensure cross-functional teams meet and exceed their performance targets.
- Work with remote, globally distributed teams.
Project ManagementAgileProduct ManagementProduct OperationsCross-functional Team LeadershipProduct DevelopmentStrategic ManagementCommunication SkillsCI/CDAgile methodologiesWritten communicationReportingRisk ManagementStakeholder management
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