Vice President, Product Design and Research
OpenTable
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- You’ll be responsible for delivering value by combining user needs, business needs and technology.
- You’ll care about metrics, demonstrating success and making decisions with data.
- You’ll work hands-on with research, design, analysis and technical disciplines to deliver products that cut through the noise.
- You’ll work across the product life cycle, from Discovery to Live, adapting your approaches to the need.
- You will be responsible for defining, communicating and iterating compelling product visions.
- You’ll own the product roadmap for clients, driving uptake, stickiness, reducing costs and or sunsetting when it’s no longer needed.
- You’ll help clients make hard decisions through prioritisation, analysis and clear communication.
- You’ll be actively interested in the disciplines you work alongside, be curious about the clients we work with, and bring a growth mindset.
- You’ll help others understand product management practices and utilise them outside of product delivery.
- You’ll be an active member of our community of practice, with a passion for product management and how we can strive to be better.
Requirements
- You’ll have experience taking products through most stages of the product life cycle.
- You are confident in building product strategies that balance user and business needs, short-term and long-term value.
- You can share how you’ve created demonstrable value for organisations and users/customers.
- You’ll be confident using data to make decisions and evolve products.
- You like to ask ‘why’, and help teams address root causes rather than symptoms.
- You are experienced working in agile, multi-disciplinary teams, harnessing those disciplines to make decisions.
- You’ll advocate for agile working, user-centred design, and delivering customer value.
- You’ll have some experience developing or coaching non-experts in product and other product managers.
- You’ll have strong communication and consulting skills, working with senior stakeholders to ensure we are meeting their objectives and making often complex decisions or concepts simple to understand.
- You enjoy working strategically and can move between detail and high-level direction.
- You want to grow as a product manager and help others to do so too
