Group Product Manager
Purpose of the role
A Group Product Manager takes responsibility for the product management a subset of Redgate's portfolio where several products combine to form a cohesive solution or "product group".
About the role
A product manager with significant experience/skill who applies themselves to complex product management problems. Collaborates with senior peers and stakeholders, with minimal support, to drive forward the strategy for a part of Redgate's product portfolio.
A group product manager will be consistently doing/exhibiting most of the points below.
Skills
Leadership
- Creates structure, organises and develops solution level product management team including personal development plans, wellbeing support, and team health.
- Working with Product Division, Marketing and Sales Leadership on the future solution direction and intersection with key technology trends
- Creates framework to elevate entire solution area, including Product Management, Solution Leadership and other functions within Product, Sales and Marketing.
Mentorship
- Coaches product managers and helps them to develop towards Group Product Manager candidates.
- Acts as company wide thought leader in specific solution area and for product management as a discipline.
- Leads change programmes that evolve Redgate business.
- Helps Senior Product Managers to develop their own strategy, investment proposals and gain exposure at the executive level.
Role-Specific
- Technical proficiency required to exercise effective influence over the Product direction including negotiation with Product Division Leadership Team, Marketing and Sales leadership.
- Understanding of data platforms and technology stack that software companies operate in
- Understanding on how Redgate as whole is affected by Cloud platforms and trends around PaaS, SaaS and Containers, NoSQL and other disruptive technologies.
- Deep understanding of technologies that components make up entire product portfolio and how other industry leaders structure their technical stacks.
- Complement the Head of Product management to inspire the product portfolio vision and mission.
- Builds an solution vision, future direction and the strategy kernel.
- Works across the teams and function to scope, break down and deliver the long term vision.
- Manage entire solution life cycle from investment case to shutting it down.
Communication
- Lay out a compelling product strategy that includes a strong understanding customers , win in your market, differentiating as a product.
- Communicate company level and solution level initiatives including ongoing solution strategies and any activities outside of traditional business as usual.
- Drive customer engagements at the executive/senior level.
- Lead product alignment across different solutions with other parts of business.
- Create proposal and investment targets and communicates those the Exec team and Board.
Emotional Intelligence
- Ability to assess team's maturity and modify approach based on the specific individuals they are working with.
- Act as senior leader and provide support for team members as well as peers within and outside product management.
- Ability to derive insight into what product managers strengths and areas of growth are and knowing how to leverage and nurture their talent.
- Creating leverage that appeals to stakeholder that are critical to influence.
Delivery
- Responsible for setting and tracking company level OKR and subset of company level metrics.
- Responsible for the solution road map and solution level commercial performance.
- Proven strong skills in stakeholder management and internal evangelism.
- Track record in delivery when it comes to modern forms of product planning, customer discovery, product discovery, and product development process.
Business Knowledge
- Defines the overarching commercial plan for the entire solution area.
- Manages solution area P&L including any changes to investment, costs and revenue profile.
- Develops growth plans in respective solutions areas including opportunities beyond current markets or products.
- Analyses current trends, ecosystem shifts and acquisition opportunities to derive solution strategies.
- Bringing new products to market with return-on-investment analysis.
- Lead work on product pricing based on market research, production costs and anticipated demand.