Senior Product Manager

As a product manager for Solventure Perform you are the linking pin around the analytical product. You will be part of a product & engineering organisation of 9 people. You collaborate and report to the CTO. Your role includes:

• The different areas where you will play are strategic planning, market entry, product design, product build, sales enablement and continuous improvement.

• The Strategic Planning includes definition and refinement of the product vision & strategy, the business plan, performing user & competitive research. You will collect evidence based insights, distill the user challenges and prioritize into a product roadmap. You exchange with the CTO & CEO on Solventure’s thought leadership and vision for the product to combine external observations with the own vision.
  

• You will define a clear product position as part of the strategic marketing of the product. In exchange with the VP business development you actively consider different pricing & packaging options as well as the possible go-to-market strategy and marketing approach.

• You will oversee the product design activities in close collaboration with a product designer. You work towards a UX experience which is compelling and sets the product apart in the market. In handover to the engineering team you write up the requirements in a feature passport. For those aspects that require more evidence you use designs, mockups & prototypes to perform user testing.
  

• You exchange with the engineering manager and software architect to follow-up the build of the product. You follow the releases and are responsible for the acceptance. You collaborate with engineering management on a sprint plan for the upcoming sprints.

• You collaborate with sales and business development to identify the sales enablement needs to be able to sell the product correctly. You incorporate sales enablement needs into the roadmap and actively oversee demo environments & datasets are available. Flexibility to take on a presales involvement in the early stage of products is a plus.
  

• In order to drive a continuous improvement mindset you collect customer feedback, perform win-loss analysis and validate potential improvements.

• You have 10 year working experience in business, functional analysis and/or project management roles of which at least 3 years as a digital product manager for data or analytical products.

• You are familiar with best practices on product management techniques and processes.
  

• You are familiar with design thinking techniques (e.g. double diamond) and are deliberate in how you approach the exploration of the problem space before diving into the solution space.

• You’re experienced in defining a product roadmap

• You understand and can actively contribute to a digital product business plan

• You have an understanding of typical roles & software solutions of international manufacturing companies and how to position & define products in such enterprise software landscape. Experiences with Food & Beverage, CPG & Discrete industries are a plus.

• You are a great communicator and researcher. You master the skills to ask open, unbiased questions. You take a deliberate approach to avoid bias or false assumptions when collecting evidence during your research.

• You combine strategic & tactical thinking with a hands on approach to work on the different PM activities as well as further develop the strategy & processes.

• You have experience with leading workshops and brainstorms to collect inputs, explore possibilities or drive decision-making.
  

• You are curious, eager and able to quickly absorb new information on knowledge domains outside your own expertise. You can play on the different dimensions of a product manager and can divide your attention across two products managed by the same engineering team.
  

• You collaborate with different functions within the organisation: sales & business development, CTO, SME’s, marketing, product designer, engineering manager, software architects and engineers.

• Ability to take a leading role on a strategic initiative for Solventure.

• Elevate the digital products and product management processes to new levels.

• An exciting and fast-growing environment with ability to innovate

• Ability to further shape the role & processes within the team

• Competitive salary package with flexibility for remote work