Product Manager

Job Description

To support the intersection of three main components of the successful Product Strategy: defining and owning the product direction; building and growing a product team and establishing the product organization and processes

Responsibilities

• Use the previously established product vision in concert with deep market understanding to inform the product strategy
• Evaluate market needs against UL’s and competitors’ unique abilities to address them
• Support and contribute to a go-to-market strategy, describing how value will be delivered to the customer/user, how the product is differentiated from the competition, and what the business model should be
• Prioritize product functions and features into a product roadmap to meet customer demands
• Monitor a set of product goals, outcomes and corresponding metrics to continually evaluate against
• Evangelize and communicate the product vision, strategy and goals internally across the organization, as well as externally with client users
• Sales enablement, Assisting sales to promote cybersecurity services, Advise pricing tactics
• Be expert in related regulations and standards, Be able to review the partner labs competencies and build the service fulfillment model.
• Collaborate with the service fulfilment team and NB to continually improve the deliverable services
• Keep the connection with the cybersecurity industry and explore the partnership and service model when necessary
• Partnership with marketing : Seminars, webinars, events, whitepapers, blogs, lead gen, etc.,
• Actively model and promote a set of desired behaviors aligned with UL’s CBS
• Take ownership of own career and professional development by documenting and communicating career aspirations and any associated development needs to their manager
• Support an efficient cross-functional matrix structure to enable effective product development lifecycle
• Execute a robust set of processes to power all parts of the product development lifecycle from research/discovery to release management and product support
• Leverage a standard set of product management tools to be used across the product organization at each of the stages of the lifecycle
  
  

Qualifications

• University Degree (Equivalent to Bachelor's degree) in Computer Science, Business, or a related discipline
• 5 years or more of related discipline experience or demonstrated competency
• Working with remote teams is highly preferred
• Project management certification is a plus
• Facilitation skills – ability to lead small to medium groups of internal and external stakeholders towards desired outcomes in order to meet business objectives
• Interview skills – ability to conduct discovery sessions with clients. prospects and stakeholders in order to diagnose business opportunities, elicit requirements and conduct other types of research
• Strong communication and presentation (PowerPoint) skills
• Product management tools – product design (e.g. Invision, Zeplin), development task management (e.g. Jira, Azure DevOps), documentation and knowledge (e.g. Confluence, SharePoint), collaboration (e.g. Microsoft Teams, Slack), roadmap and portfolio management (e.g. Aha!, Daptiv)
• Formal training and/or certification in Product Management is a plus
  
  

About Us

A global leader in applied safety science, UL Solutions (NYSE: ULS) transforms safety, security and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers in more than 110 countries. UL Solutions delivers testing, inspection and certification services, together with software products and advisory offerings, that support our customers’ product innovation and business growth. The UL Mark serves as a recognized symbol of trust in our customers’ products and reflects an unwavering commitment to advancing our safety mission. We help our customers innovate, launch new products and services, navigate global markets and complex supply chains, and grow sustainably and responsibly into the future. Our science is your advantage.

About The Team

Imagine getting your hands on new technology before it hits the shelves. To dig deep and figure out exactly how it works. That’s what we do. We lift the lid and test the boundaries on a huge range of products, from health-monitoring smart watches monitoring to electric vehicles loaded with the latest software. We’re always looking for people who are passionate about innovation, embrace change and love new and exciting challenges. Join our team, influence emerging technology and forge a successful career at the center of safety science.