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Zinus

April 3, 2023

$$$

Sr. Social Marketing Manager

CA Tracy

Job Type:

Skills:

Tracy, Ca – Zinus is seeking an experienced Sr. Social Marketing Manager to join our U.S. marketing team. Reporting to the Sr. Brand Marketing Manager, this role will be pivotal to defining the future of our social marketing strategy across all platforms. In this role, you will own all things organic social media and content, leading the strategy, ideation, creation, and evaluation of our social media channels. You’ll have your finger at the pulse of social media trends and lead efforts to grow and engage our community through content and influencer engagements.

What you will do:

Evaluate and improve strategic social media marketing plan to align with key business objectives across Zinus’ organic and paid social media channels
Increase brand awareness and sales conversions for Zinus products with a focus on influencer marketing in support of strategic brand partnerships
Own the development and execution of our social affiliate program in partnership with our DTC Marketing Manager.
Own the creation of a social media calendar that’s at least 8 weeks ahead
Own the planning, conceptualization, creation, posting and community management across all Zinus profiles, including Instagram (In-Feed, Stories, Reels), Tik Tok, Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter
Work closely with the Content Marketing team to develop content relevant to growing and delighting our community.
Be on top of social trends and identify creative ways to incorporate them into our strategy
Work with our product strategy and marketing teams to develop social strategies in support of new product launches.
Partner with the DTC marketing manager to ensure social support on seasonal and promotional activities and initiatives that align with the marketing calendar
Curate brand content that can be shared by global leadership on their personal LinkedIn profiles
Expand and engage the social community with community management, daily listening, maintenance, conversation, and monitoring across platforms, with a particular focus on Instagram
Ensure messaging and brand voice are consistent with brand objectives / visual identity and while also aligning to platform best-practices and trends
Write engaging and compelling copy, with the ability to tell stories across posts, platforms, and campaigns
Provide organic social media and social listening reporting, insights and optimizations that align with KPIs
Translate performance and analytic data to actionable insights and strategy changes
Be a team player and assist where needed
Other duties as assigned

What you bring to Zinus:

Excellent understanding of social media platforms, including their respective strengths, nuances, success metrics, and relevant demographics
Get individual voice, audience and configuration of each social media platform in order to optimize engagement with different communities
Knowledge of each social media channel’s algorithms and ability to plan and manage content with respect to them
Ability to think outside of the box to develop innovative ways to drive increased brand awareness among potential consumers through social media
Experience managing social media, preferably for a CPG brand and/or with an agency
Excellent communication and copywriting skills
Experience using photo and video editing apps to create social assets
Ability to create images, GIFs, and videos as needed
Ability to write on-asset and caption copy as needed

· You are both – a highly motivated self-starter and a valuable team player

· You can operate efficiently in an environment of ambiguity and are able to multi-task and prioritize projects

Experience rolling out campaigns across social media, in addition to daily posting maintenance.
Experience with social media posting, listening and analytics tools
Proven experience capturing content optimized for social, not just posting or maintaining an account
Extremely organized and thrives on multitasking, fast-paced environments.
5-7 years of experience in social media & content creation
Passion for social media, content creation and community building
Strong working knowledge of the competitive landscape, especially small to mid-scale CPG brands
Strong knowledge of social media platforms and strategies
Possess an eye for aesthetic curation and cohesive visual and written storytelling
Include portfolio or links to your previous social media content

Work Authorization/Security Clearance

Must be authorized to work within the US., sponsorship is not available at this time.

About Zinus

Zinus is a highly successful Global eCommerce mattress and furniture company that values and empowers an entrepreneurial spirit in all employees. We’ve been in the mattress and furniture business for over 16 years, compressing and delivering mattresses in a box a decade before anyone else, so we know a thing or two about this eCommerce business. If you chose to join Zinus you’d be joining a company that is committed to the happiness of our employees and customers above all else with the goal of delivering products and experiences that invoke wonder and joy daily.

Zinus

April 3, 2023

$$$

Product Manager

Job Type:

Skills:

As a Product Manager at Publicis Sapient with Endur and delivering ETRM projects supporting our Energy and Commodities practice, you act as your clients’ trusted advisor in leading the overall vision, strategy, roadmap, and prioritization for a specific digital product, or products, within an engagement. You will collaborate with clients undertaking major Digital Business Transformation (DBT) engagements to understand their business, end-customer needs, and then constantly deliver value with fast increment cycles.

Your Impact:

Partner with client(s), strategists, experience leads, and architects to frame business goals and value pools from which we can shape product propositions that provide transformative business outcomes and customer experience
Develop product vision, strategy, market/user research, by keeping the customer at the center of everything we do while using design thinking tools
Represent client in ideation workshops with cross-functional leaders where you identify new ideas, customer needs, pain points, and solution options
Develop solution hypotheses iteratively, based on user research, and industry and market trend analysis
Establish customer journey mapping to guide product development; then validate that learning with user testing
Translate product vision into a roadmap containing well-defined, prioritized features that will realize the product vision and value
Validate and present the business case to the C–level executives and lead business reviews to ensure the team prioritizes the right features
Serve as a voice of the customer among the cross-functional team, always understanding the customer needs
Establish objective goals for the product with success and acceptance criteria using meaningful metrics, KPIs, and quantifiable business outcomes
Masterfully apply Lean Agile practices and frameworks
Collaborate with product owners, solution managers, and cross-functional product managers, to ensure alignment towards the same program increment (PI) objectives
Collaborate with system architects to envision and prioritize system enablers
Represent industry best practice and market trends to assist the client in maintaining competitive advantage
Build and maintain a trusting relationship with the client, teams, and vendors; develop influence without authority
Inspire, lead, and mentor, a high-performing team of Product Analysts to continually facilitate improvements in developing and enhancing best-in-class digital products and services

Qualifications

Required experience with Endur and delivering ETRM projects deeply rooted in Agile, Lean, and continuous delivery principles that maximize flow of value with a passion to extend this understanding throughout the organization
Must have deep rooted knowledge and experience in energy & commodities
Demonstrated success creating digital products vision, strategy, experience, and enterprise solutions and services – from ideation to launch, including engineering and operational quality
Experience working with a multi-disciplinary team on customer-focused products and services
Proven ability in collaborating and leading Program Increment (PI) cycles
Significant industry knowledge and expertise within industry
Proven ability to prioritize multiple demands and obtain buy-in from stakeholders
Practice in workshop facilitation to cultivate the ideation
Ability to define financials, ROI, KPIs, and forecasts, with success leveraging data to make decisions about product feature increments
Proven track record of working with senior client stakeholder and diverse teams as a servant leader and steward of economic and customer value
Mastery in leading change and inspire others to change behaviors
Influencer in continuous learning and innovation

Set Yourself Apart With:

Certified SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager designation
Certified Agile Product Manager designation

A Tip from the Hiring Manager

A successful Product Manager at Publicis Sapient combines leadership skills, rooted on customer centricity, with tactical product management skills to drive the clients and team in releasing program increments every 10-12 weeks (or applicable frequency at client’s organization).

Additional Information

Pay Range: $75,000 – $146,000

The range shown represents a grouping of relevant ranges currently in use at Publicis Sapient. Actual range for this position may differ, depending on location and specific skillset required for the work itself.

Benefits of Working Here:

Flexible vacation policy; time is not limited, allocated, or accrued
15 paid holidays throughout the year
Generous parental leave and new parent transition program
Tuition reimbursement
Corporate gift matching program

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected] or you may call us at +1-617-621-0200.

Publicis Sapient

April 3, 2023

$$$

Product Manager

Job Type:

Skills:

Your Impact:

Partner with client(s), strategists, experience leads, and architects to frame business goals and value pools from which we can shape product propositions that provide transformative business outcomes and customer experience
Develop product vision, strategy, market/user research, by keeping the customer at the center of everything we do while using design thinking tools
Represent client in ideation workshops with cross-functional leaders where you identify new ideas, customer needs, pain points, and solution options
Develop solution hypotheses iteratively, based on user research, and industry and market trend analysis
Establish customer journey mapping to guide product development; then validate that learning with user testing
Translate product vision into a roadmap containing well-defined, prioritized features that will realize the product vision and value
Validate and present the business case to the C–level executives and lead business reviews to ensure the team prioritizes the right features
Serve as a voice of the customer among the cross-functional team, always understanding the customer needs
Establish objective goals for the product with success and acceptance criteria using meaningful metrics, KPIs, and quantifiable business outcomes
Masterfully apply Lean Agile practices and frameworks
Collaborate with product owners, solution managers, and cross-functional product managers, to ensure alignment towards the same program increment (PI) objectives
Collaborate with system architects to envision and prioritize system enablers
Represent industry best practice and market trends to assist the client in maintaining competitive advantage
Build and maintain a trusting relationship with the client, teams, and vendors; develop influence without authority
Inspire, lead, and mentor, a high-performing team of Product Analysts to continually facilitate improvements in developing and enhancing best-in-class digital products and services

Qualifications

Required experience with Endur and delivering ETRM projects deeply rooted in Agile, Lean, and continuous delivery principles that maximize flow of value with a passion to extend this understanding throughout the organization
Must have deep rooted knowledge and experience in energy & commodities
Demonstrated success creating digital products vision, strategy, experience, and enterprise solutions and services – from ideation to launch, including engineering and operational quality
Experience working with a multi-disciplinary team on customer-focused products and services
Proven ability in collaborating and leading Program Increment (PI) cycles
Significant industry knowledge and expertise within industry
Proven ability to prioritize multiple demands and obtain buy-in from stakeholders
Practice in workshop facilitation to cultivate the ideation
Ability to define financials, ROI, KPIs, and forecasts, with success leveraging data to make decisions about product feature increments
Proven track record of working with senior client stakeholder and diverse teams as a servant leader and steward of economic and customer value
Mastery in leading change and inspire others to change behaviors
Influencer in continuous learning and innovation

Set Yourself Apart With:

Certified SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager designation
Certified Agile Product Manager designation

Additional Information

Pay Range: $75,000 – $146,000

Benefits of Working Here:

Flexible vacation policy; time is not limited, allocated, or accrued
15 paid holidays throughout the year
Generous parental leave and new parent transition program
Tuition reimbursement
Corporate gift matching program

Publicis Sapient

April 3, 2023

$$$

Senior Product Manager

Job Type:

Skills:

As a Senior Product Manager with Endur and delivering ETRM projectsat Publicis Sapient supporting our Energy and Commodities practice, you act as your clients’ trusted advisor in leading the overall vision, strategy, roadmap, and prioritization for a specific digital product, or products, within an engagement. You will collaborate with clients undertaking major Digital Business Transformation (DBT) engagements to understand their business, end-customer needs, and then constantly deliver value with fast increment cycles.

Your Impact:

Partner with client(s), strategists, experience leads, and architects to frame business goals and value pools from which we can shape product propositions that provide transformative business outcomes and customer experience
Develop product vision, strategy, market/user research, by keeping the customer at the center of everything we do while using design thinking tools
Represent client in ideation workshops with cross-functional leaders where you identify new ideas, customer needs, pain points, and solution options
Develop solution hypotheses iteratively, based on user research, and industry and market trend analysis
Establish customer journey mapping to guide product development; then validate that learning with user testing
Translate product vision into a roadmap containing well-defined, prioritized features that will realize the product vision and value
Validate and present the business case to the C–level executives and lead business reviews to ensure the team prioritizes the right features
Serve as a voice of the customer among the cross-functional team, always understanding the customer needs
Establish objective goals for the product with success and acceptance criteria using meaningful metrics, KPIs, and quantifiable business outcomes
Masterfully apply Lean Agile practices and frameworks
Collaborate with product owners, solution managers, and cross-functional product managers, to ensure alignment towards the same program increment (PI) objectives
Collaborate with system architects to envision and prioritize system enablers
Represent industry best practice and market trends to assist the client in maintaining competitive advantage
Build and maintain a trusting relationship with the client, teams, and vendors; develop influence without authority
Inspire, lead, and mentor, a high-performing team of Product Analysts to continually facilitate improvements in developing and enhancing best-in-class digital products and services

Qualifications

Required experience with Endur and delivering ETRM projectsDeeply rooted in Agile, Lean, and continuous delivery principles that maximize flow of value with a passion to extend this understanding throughout the organization
Must have deep rooted knowledge and experience in energy & commodities
Demonstrated success creating digital products vision, strategy, experience, and enterprise solutions and services – from ideation to launch, including engineering and operational quality
Experience working with a multi-disciplinary team on customer-focused products and services
Proven ability in collaborating and leading Program Increment (PI) cycles
Significant industry knowledge and expertise within industry
Proven ability to prioritize multiple demands and obtain buy-in from stakeholders
Practice in workshop facilitation to cultivate the ideation
Ability to define financials, ROI, KPIs, and forecasts, with success leveraging data to make decisions about product feature increments
Proven track record of working with senior client stakeholder and diverse teams as a servant leader and steward of economic and customer value
Mastery in leading change and inspire others to change behaviors
Influencer in continuous learning and innovation

Set Yourself Apart With:

Certified SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager designation
Certified Agile Product Manager designation

A Tip from the Hiring Manager

A successful Business Analyst at Publicis Sapient combines leadership skills, rooted on customer centricity, with tactical product management skills to drive the clients and team in releasing program increments every 10-12 weeks (or applicable frequency at client’s organization).

Additional Information

Pay Range: $129,000 – $252,000

Benefits of Working Here:

Flexible vacation policy; time is not limited, allocated, or accrued
15 paid holidays throughout the year
Generous parental leave and new parent transition program
Tuition reimbursement
Corporate gift matching program

Publicis Sapient

Russell Tobin

April 3, 2023

$$$

Product Marketing Manager

CA San Francisco

Job Type:

Skills:

A leading social tech company is seeking seeking a Sr. Product Marketing Manager to join their Business Team. APPLY TODAY!

Fully Remote to select locations: San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Houston, Baltimore, & Boston

$95 – $110 / hour

The ideal candidate will have a multi-disciplinary background—including business strategy, product marketing and analytical skills, and have some experience in the digital advertising space. We’re looking for strong problem solvers who are passionate about understanding the needs of both advertisers and consumers. They should be flexible and comfortable working in a cross-functional capacity within a fast-paced environment. Excellent analytical skills, project management experience, attention to detail, and communication skills are a must.

Responsibilities:

Partner with Product Marketing Managers on the team to grow market adoption of our products
Manage high-priority, fast moving decisions and communications regarding our product and go-to-market strategy
Activate go-to-market plans, including coordinating and communicating the rollout of new products and features both internally and externally in partnership with marketing, PR, measurement and sales teams
Anticipate risks and manage escalations that arise along the way and see them through to resolution

Requirements:

6+ years of work experience, with a background in project management, strategy consulting, digital marketing/advertising, investment banking/venture capital, analytics/data science, or other analytical roles
Proven experience in simplifying complex concepts
Cross-functional skills, with demonstrated experience collaborating and influencing partners and managing key stakeholders
Experience creating structured frameworks to evaluate problems and present recommendations for how to proceed
Experience driving and executing global projects
Experience contributing in setting strategic direction and executing go-to-market plans
BA/BS degree

Russell Tobin

Fussy

April 3, 2023

$$$

Social Media Manager

England London

Job Type:

Skills:

We are now expanding the Fussy family and are looking for a bright and passionate Social Media Lead to manage and grow our social channels.???? This is a super exciting opportunity to join a disruptive startup through an exciting period of growth and to build a community around the brand. The chosen candidate will work directly with the senior leadership team to drive the long term social and content strategy for fussy and execute upon this. ????????

Responsibilities ????

To champion social media and communication across the business.
To bring a growth mindset to building an engaged community around the brand: people within our target audience that share our values.
Grow presence across different social media channels and expand focus from Instagram to other channels.
Work with the senior leaders to set the overall content and social strategy.
Creating, scheduling and publishing daily content across blog/editorial, user generated content, social media channels and email using our social and creative guidelines and templates.
Creating a content calendar, more detailed channel plans and developing a plan for weekly customer newsletters and blogs.
Being engaging, funny, responsive and of-the-moment to create viral and shareable moments.
Using your platform knowledge and creative skills to create boundary-pushing, ATTENTION-GRABBING social content using the latest affordances on each channel.
Bringing fussy’s product offering to life creatively to drive sales.
Managing and promoting user generated content.
Identify and work with journalists and writers to produce engaging blog content.
Identity new and interesting ways to operate on social or new channels for example podcast or IG live.
Assist when required with new product shoots, including writing creative briefs and contributing to storyboards and mood boards and any other logistical requirements.
Explore influencer marketing and with Founders help to develop and execute our approach. This will include looking at which influencers to engage with analysing their engagement rates and competitor analysis.
Manage customer advocacy programmes (for example VIP group on facebook)
Explore partnership and collaborations opportunities within direct to consumer and sustainability sectors to grow brand presence.
Be aware of the social and email performance and competitors to identify trends and optimise performance.
Responding to any DMs quickly and calmly and carefully dealing with customer and tech issues, if needed.
Report any customer service issues back .
Report into against set KPIs.

Who you are ????

You will love social and where it intersects. yYou will know your hashtags from your hashbrowns and your Gen Z’s from your Generation Alpha’s (we had to google that).
A keen eye for all things design and branding.
Experience within a similar role in social media
Experience developing content for SEO.
Superior grammar, splleing and copy skills.
You should be invested in our mission: to banish single-use plastic and create a better planet for everybody. I mean who isn’t?
Experience in coming up with creative concepts.
Experience in working for a wellness, personal care or beauty brand is a bonus.
Experience with direct to consumer brands and marketing is even better. Or maybe you have a passion for D2C and have one too many subscriptions.
You will have a keen eye for detail, able to deliver regular weekly reports and updates, to a high standard. You need to know how to use a spreadsheet.
You should be a self starter. You’re the sort of person that we can point in the right direction and you’re off!
Strong copywriting skills.
Ability to use Adobe suite such as photoshop or illustrator is a bonus. Or the willingness to learn.
Be nice.

Who we are ????????

We’re on a mission to banish single-use plastic from the bathroom, with simple, effective and convenient personal care products that are backed by science not buzzwords. After launching as the highest ever grossing deodorant worldwide on Kickstarter, we launched our full ecommerce offering in June last year.

Since then Fussy has experienced 300% MoM growth, been named the UK’s Best Eco-Deodorant in Glamour Magazine, featured on This Morning and most mainstream media outlets, put in place the foundations of a world-class team of employees and advisors and have prevented over 10,000 years worth of deodorants from ending up in landfill.

We are now looking to accelerate our growth into new products and territories. We as a brand have the responsibility, consumers have the power and it’s only together we can do this. Power to your pits!

Other Details

Term: Permanent

Start date: Jan

Days/Week: 5 days per week (2 days in the office) and flex time

Probationary Period: 3 month

Holiday: 25 plus holiday, training days, mental health and charity days, flexible working.

Fussy

Salt

April 3, 2023

$$$

Social Media Manager – Tech – up to £60K

England London

Job Type:

Skills:

Social Media Manager – Tech Start-Up

London, Spitalfields

3 days a week in office

£50-£60K + bens and share options after a year of service

Salt have partnered with a revolutionary start-up that specialises in connecting early stage businesses with relevant investors. In the last 18 months my client has grown by 18% MOM and isn’t slowing down. You’ll be the first dedicated Social Media Manager for the team and will be tasked with looking after the brand, and founder’s, social media presence.

This is a highly rewarding role for an ambitious social media manager who wants to join a growing business. You’ll be working on all social output including an already popular podcast.

The Role:

· Shape and deliver a social strategy for the founder and brand.

· End-to-end social media management across LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok and any other channels you see as relevant.

· Develop and deliver the brands new podcast series.

· Identify new communities and demographics to reach out to.

· Constantly be working to growing the brand’s online presence.

· Create an ambassador program by reaching out to relevant Influencers and KOL’s in industry, and monitoring progress.

· Create ‘personal brand’ guidelines for the wider company employees.

· Constantly be keeping on top of latest social media trends and making recommendations of where to move next.

· Long and short-form copywriting.

The Person:

· Proven ability to grow social media accounts across LinkedIn, Insta, and TikTok.

· Ideally some experience of ideating and producing a podcast series.

· Design skills (canva and photoshop) a big plus.

· 3+ years’ experience

What they offer you:

· Competitive basic salary

· Share options after a year of service

· Yearly company away trip

· Vitality Health Insurance

· Progression in a fast moving, growing business

Salt

Texada Software

April 3, 2023

$$$

Senior Product Manager

Canada Canada

Job Type:

Skills:

Position Title: Senior Product Manager – Software

Job Description

Texada Software is seeking a Senior Product Manager to help define the future of Texada products by understanding the needs of our customers, and working with our development teams to meet those needs with technology. In this key role, we are seeking someone who enjoys thinking about the people who will be using our products. They seek to understand use cases, and build things that will feel familiar and easy to use, even in a complex business environment. In this cross functional role, you be working on the sales enablement tools for the heavy equipment industry such as industrial CRM, quoting, and order tracking tools.

Work location and travel This position is remote/work-from-home, but prefer candidates in the Greater Toronto Area due to our employee base in the Mississauga and Kitchener areas.

What we are hoping to find in your background

7+ years of relevant experience, plus at least 4 years experience as a Product Manager; preference with complex B2B products
In depth engagement with software customers in a product management, customer success, services, support, or other roles
Intermediate to advance skills working with CRM or a sales enablement tools
Experience with the rental, heavy equipment, or the construction industry is highly desired

How to grab our attention

You have influenced or lead the product roadmap and have brought a commercially successful product or product module from idea to market success
You have successfully managed to grow usage and ARR of a complex, mature product

Competencies for Success

Analytical and Critical Thinking: Review and manage data with strong attention to detail; combine facts with likely possibilities; articulate and resolve complex problems
Quality Focused: A recognition of the value of doing things the right way; having a high sense of integrity and thoughtfulness in your actions
Action Oriented: A bias for action, when you see a problem, you solve it using your technical savvy and internal resources
Excellent written and verbal communication: Presents oneself clearly and articulately when speaking, assuring that others fully comprehend the intended message; Uses appropriate grammar tailored to the audience
Customer Service Orientation: Positive attitude and an awareness and willingness to respond to customers to and meet their needs, requirements and expectations; Active and empathetic listening; Clarifies customers’ needs or expectations, when doubt exists; Provides a timely response to customer’s complaints, feedback and comments; Actively inform customers of intentions.

Desired Personal Attributes

You are someone with an insatiable curiosity to learn, someone who refuses to believe “no, we can’t do that” is an acceptable answer to a question.
You work diligently each day to positively impact the product, our customers, our users, and the company
You think technology can help change the world – and might read Techcrunch and/or VentureBeat, and have ambitions to perhaps start your own company some day
You have the ability to influence people cross-functionally
You think automation is important – and seek out processes, systems and tools that enable better decision making with minimal re-work
You usually don’t immediately know the answer to everything – but you are adept at using tools and seeking opinions to get the right answer

Who you will be working for

Texada Software is building a technology-driven company to better service the hundreds of thousands of construction contractors and field service businesses around the world. Our mission is to provide a seamless combination of technology built on a unique platform that delight and empower our customers to help build a better world. We are a rapidly growing company consisting of a group of bright and passionate folks who are looking to dramatically change and improve the nature of the construction and field service. Please visit us atwww.TexadaSoftware.comfor additional information.

Our Core Values

ENGAGEMENT – We value passion, dedication and growth.
LEARNING – We value learning, not genius. We expect everyone arriving to be ready to learn.
PUSHING FORWARD – We value individuals and teams who stretch beyond their comfort zones and take reasonable risks. We constantly ask questions to drive innovative solutions.
PROCESS – We value process. We value scalable solutions. We value continuous improvement as we strive toward excellence.
LIFTING EACH OTHER UP – We value teamwork. Our success is centered on individuals and teams who engage in a wholehearted and thoughtful way to support each other

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identify or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace in hiring and growth opportunities.e, and Slack

Texada Software

April 3, 2023

$$$

Associate Director Product Management

Job Type:

Skills:

As an Associate Director Product Management with Endur and delivering ETRM projects at Publicis Sapient supporting our Energy and Commodities practice, you act as your clients’ trusted advisor in leading the overall vision, strategy, roadmap, and prioritization for a specific digital product, or products, within an engagement. You will collaborate with clients undertaking major Digital Business Transformation (DBT) engagements to understand their business, end-customer needs, and then constantly deliver value with fast increment cycles.

Your Impact:

Partner with client(s), strategists, experience leads, and architects to frame business goals and value pools from which we can shape product propositions that provide transformative business outcomes and customer experience
Develop product vision, strategy, market/user research, by keeping the customer at the center of everything we do while using design thinking tools
Represent client in ideation workshops with cross-functional leaders where you identify new ideas, customer needs, pain points, and solution options
Develop solution hypotheses iteratively, based on user research, and industry and market trend analysis
Establish customer journey mapping to guide product development; then validate that learning with user testing
Translate product vision into a roadmap containing well-defined, prioritized features that will realize the product vision and value
Validate and present the business case to the C–level executives and lead business reviews to ensure the team prioritizes the right features
Serve as a voice of the customer among the cross-functional team, always understanding the customer needs
Establish objective goals for the product with success and acceptance criteria using meaningful metrics, KPIs, and quantifiable business outcomes
Masterfully apply Lean Agile practices and frameworks
Collaborate with product owners, solution managers, and cross-functional product managers, to ensure alignment towards the same program increment (PI) objectives
Collaborate with system architects to envision and prioritize system enablers
Represent industry best practice and market trends to assist the client in maintaining competitive advantage
Build and maintain a trusting relationship with the client, teams, and vendors; develop influence without authority
Inspire, lead, and mentor, a high-performing team of Product Analysts to continually facilitate improvements in developing and enhancing best-in-class digital products and services

Qualifications

Your Skills & Experience:

Required experience with Endur and delivering ETRM projects
Deeply rooted in Agile, Lean, and continuous delivery principles that maximize flow of value with a passion to extend this understanding throughout the organization
Must have deep rooted knowledge and experience in energy & commodities
Demonstrated success creating digital products vision, strategy, experience, and enterprise solutions and services – from ideation to launch, including engineering and operational quality
Experience working with a multi-disciplinary team on customer-focused products and services
Proven ability in collaborating and leading Program Increment (PI) cycles
Significant industry knowledge and expertise within industry
Proven ability to prioritize multiple demands and obtain buy-in from stakeholders
Practice in workshop facilitation to cultivate the ideation
Ability to define financials, ROI, KPIs, and forecasts, with success leveraging data to make decisions about product feature increments
Proven track record of working with senior client stakeholder and diverse teams as a servant leader and steward of economic and customer value
Mastery in leading change and inspire others to change behaviors
Influencer in continuous learning and innovation

Set Yourself Apart With:

Certified SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager designation
Certified Agile Product Manager designation

A Tip from the Hiring Manager

A successful Associate Director of Product Management at Publicis Sapient combines leadership skills, rooted on customer centricity, with tactical product management skills to drive the clients and team in releasing program increments every 10-12 weeks (or applicable frequency at client’s organization).

Additional Information

Pay Range: $129,000 – $252,000

Benefits of Working Here:

Flexible vacation policy; time is not limited, allocated, or accrued
15 paid holidays throughout the year
Generous parental leave and new parent transition program
Tuition reimbursement
Corporate gift matching program

Publicis Sapient