An Amazing Career Opportunity for a Product Manager
Location: Basingstoke, United Kingdom or Surenes, France
Work Arrangement: Hybrid - 3 days office presence required
Job ID: 29737
The Product Manager is responsible for the Physical Identity Solutions product throughout its product lifecycle. Identity solutions include productized components for 4 different areas (enrollment, adjudication, personalization, and issuance).
The qualified candidate will own and execute the product roadmap for the Physical Identity Solutions product, HID Integrale, gaining insight from current customers, sales team, market research, and industry bodies to provide clear direction for a market-leading, secure, innovative product suitable for current and future customer needs.
You will write epics focusing on target business value and provide support for developing user stories, maintain and prioritize the product backlog, track releases, participate in scrum meetings, planning, reviews, and retrospectives as well as supporting the development team with any questions they may have.
The Product Manager shall have excellent communication skills and the ability to articulate the product vision clearly at all levels of the organization.
As our Product Manager, you’ll support HID’s success by:
* Manage Market Requirements to identify essential features and value-add options.
* Define MVP and differentiation options ensuring their refinement and continuous assessment with the software delivery team.
* Provide insights to stakeholders on the product and market.
* Translate business strategy into product strategy for Physical Identity Solutions Software.
* Define and build a global roadmap based on key market trends and compelling opportunities that differentiates HID as a global leader in the electronic identity document market, establishing key KPI’s to drive the business.
* Provide leadership in creating technology strategies based on well-defined best practices, processes, training, sales, and support.
* Coordinate, schedule, and plan product releases with a cross-functional team.
* Carry out product launches, working closely with Product marketing, Sales, and Marketing team.
* Conduct regular meetings with strategic suppliers, sales management, and marketing counterparts to discuss and track progress on business and marketing plans and any open issues.
* Manage product profitability and commercial success, providing regular reports up to the VP, Identity Solutions.
* Provide product marketing, marketing, sales, and bid teams with information on key differentiators and messages for the product.
* Write product requirements in the form of high-level descriptions, user stories, and epics in line with HID standard approach.
* Provide timely information for reporting to technology council and other relevant forums.
* Manage all aspects of in-life products, including customer feedback, requirements, and issues to ensure continuous improvement and enhancements to the product.
* Provide end-to-end solution demonstrations in person and remotely to internal and external audiences.
What we will love about your background:
* Knowledge of ‘Secure by Design Principles’ or similar and experience applying these product requirements.
* Able to demonstrate experience in delivering product strategy and innovation resulting in market introduction, adoption, and significant revenue streams.
* Experienced in identifying and expressing business value and defining SMART acceptance criteria.
* Strong understanding of solutions software and web services.
* Strong organizational skills, ability to work to deadlines.
* Strong and clear communicator, with experience in working with a variety of stakeholders at different levels of seniority and knowledge and ability to adapt approach accordingly.
* Problem solver by nature.
* Flexible approach.
* Strong drive to succeed.
Your Experience and Education include:
* Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Business Administration, Engineering, or a relevant field.
* 5 years’ experience working as a product manager with sole responsibility for a multi-million-dollar global software product as part of a solution or working in Identity Solutions software and products with the ability to demonstrate relevance to this role.
* Strong working knowledge of Agile methodology, ideally SAFe Agile certification.
* Experience working with international customers a must.
* Experience working in Global Identity Solutions an advantage.
* Ability to analyze complex problems working with multiple inputs to determine the most appropriate direction for the product.
* Capacity to learn quickly and understand complex technologies and how they relate to customer needs, market trends, and user behaviors.
* Ability to provide leadership and authority on the product vision and roadmap.
* Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
* Ability to deliver presentations to large audiences.
* Ability to understand both business and technical needs, analyze market and technical data, and identify trends.
Why apply?
* Empowerment: You’ll work as part of a global team in a flexible work environment, learning and enhancing your expertise. We welcome an opportunity to meet you and learn about your unique talents, skills, and experiences. You don’t need to check all the boxes. If you have most of the skills and experience, we want you to apply.
* Innovation: You embrace challenges and want to drive change. We are open to ideas, including flexible work arrangements, job sharing, or part-time job seekers.
* Integrity: You are results-oriented, reliable, and straightforward and value being treated accordingly. We want all our employees to be themselves, to feel appreciated and accepted.
We make it easier for people to get where they want to go!
On an average day, think of how many times you tap, twist, tag, push or swipe to get access, find information, connect with others, or track something. HID technology is behind billions of interactions, in more than 100 countries. We help you create a verified, trusted identity that can get you where you need to go – without having to think about it.
When you join our HID team, you’ll also be part of the ASSA ABLOY Group, the global leader in access solutions. You’ll have 61,000 colleagues in more than 70 different countries. We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions – supporting them with regular feedback, training, and development opportunities. Our colleagues think broadly about where they can make the most impact, and we encourage them to grow their role locally, regionally, or even internationally. As we welcome new people on board, it’s important to us to have diverse, inclusive teams, and we value different perspectives and experiences.
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