Director of Product Management

<p>HICX is a leading worldwide provider of enterprise SaaS solutions for digital supplier management. <a href="https://hicx-solutions.breezy.hr/" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">Learn more about HICX</a> </p><p>This is a highly visible role within the organization with direct interactions with executive leadership to conceptualize, prioritize and deliver the companies north star roadmap.  </p><p>The Product team is currently looking for a highly skilled individual to grow with the organization, managing stakeholders across verticals and setting up the right priorities for delivering on both short- and long-term initiatives.  </p><p>Reporting directly to the VP of Product Management, the Director of Product will own a HICX product line and define the solution that will enable HICX to best serve new and existing customers by creating best-in-class solutions.  </p><p><br/></p><p><strong>Position Overview</strong> </p><ul> <li>Hire, onboard and mentor great product managers and product designers to build a world-class team. </li> <li>Define and own the long-term product vision. </li> <li>Develop a product strategy, build and own the roadmap and prioritize accordingly. </li> <li>Own the end-to-end processes related to product discovery, from identifying problems and opportunities, to defining solutions that will deliver to HICX customers. </li> <li>Communicate with customers and stakeholders to gather requirements and understand their needs. </li> <li>Make the tough decisions about what HICX will and will not do, balancing long-term product vision with short term commercial pressures. Justify this with clear analysis. </li> <li>Continuously drive process development: improvement in ideation, conceptualization, implementation, and qualification of new features. </li> <li>Create, maintain, and prioritize product development phasing and backlog, including requirement grooming, and making verbal and written recommendations to management. </li> </ul><ul> <li>Define best working practices with engineering, quality, product delivery teams. </li> <li>Support sales, pre-sales, account management and customer success winning new and retain existing customer accounts. </li> <li>Support internal teams improving the onboarding experience for new customer accounts. </li> <li>Proactively research and identify technology trends that may be advantageous to the realization and continued adoption of HICX’s product offering globally. </li> <li>Look beyond where the market is today and ensure that the company maintains a competitive advantage. </li> </ul><p><strong>Requirements</strong></p><ul> <li>6+ years of SaaS-related experience from a previous role in IT, sales, product support, or product management. Specifically, the candidate should have proven experience in delivering through agile methodologies in a fast-paced environment. </li> <li>Expert level understanding of the procurement and sourcing process, tools, and its ecosystem of solution providers and its implementation within a company’s work process and systems. </li> <li>Understanding of the SaaS product management process with hands-on experience of creating and managing the product backlog, working with technical teams to prioritize and deliver features. </li> <li>Experience in managing large, complex programs/projects that have a significant impact. </li> <li>The ability to take customer needs and translate them to solution requirements that can be used by product teams for development is required. </li> <li>An excellent communicator and builds strong cross-functional relationships, internally and externally. </li> <li>Work with the development team on User Interface (UI) design/validation, sprint reviews, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT). </li> <li>Proven ability to execute an end-to-end solution lifecycle. </li> </ul><p><strong>Benefits</strong></p><ul> <li>Work from anywhere in Romania - we are a fully remote company. </li> <li>Flexible PTO - We offer 25 days of paid holiday per year + 3 Public Holidays. </li> <li>Connect and socialize with the team during our company socials and off-site events. </li> <li>We celebrate special occasions with you - like your birthday! Additional PTO for all employees during their birthdays. </li> <li>Receive Competitive Pay - Our team makes sure to provide a highly competitive rate based on your skills and location. </li> <li>Work with a diverse, international team. </li> <li>Tons of amazing career opportunities in a fast-growing in-demand industry. </li> </ul>