Lead Product Manager (Remote US)

About the business

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk. Within our Insurance vertical, we provide customers with solutions and decision tools that combine public and industry specific content with advanced technology and analytics to assist them in evaluating and predicting risk and enhancing operational efficiency. Our insurance risk solutions help drive better data-driven decisions across the insurance policy lifecycle all while reducing risk. You can learn more about LexisNexis Risk at the link below. https://risk.lexisnexis.com/insurance 

About the role

The Lead Product Manager will be responsible for a portfolio of products within the LexisNexis Coplogic Product Management Team. He/she will be responsible for managing a small team of Product Managers (currently two) who will develop a commercially successful product strategy and lead the execution, working directly with the delivery team, with minimal guidance. He/she will represent the product portfolio to peers and managers within the company, and externally when required. In addition, he/she will be responsible for the recruitment, development, and success of their Product Management team.

Position can be remote in the US or hybrid from our Alpharetta, GA offices.

Responsibilities

Customer Focus

• Has a solid understanding of customer use cases.

• Maintains close contact with customers to gain a sense for where the market is heading given multiple considerations.

• Leverages analytics and other insights to better understand customer needs.

• Creates processes that are adept at recognizing customer needs.

• Aligns/coaches the team to ensure customer needs are met.

• Understands competitors and regulatory environment.

• Segments markets and understands needs of those sub-segments in greater detail.

Data-Driven Decision-Making & Analysis

• Leverages metrics to track progress on customer needs and ensure that product efforts move those metrics.

• Is proficient at pulling and accessing data from multiple resources, and manage through data ambiguity.

• Communicates KPIs that measure team success.

• Effectively coaches others on how to analyze information to solve problems.

• Identifies the most important data to consider and set KPIs, priorities and dashboards.

• Is comfortable analyzing data using existing software packages (e.g. Excel).

Go to Market & Product Marketing Lifecycle

• Oversees development of clear go to market launch plans through coordination with his/her Product Managers, external customer facing teams such as marketing, and sales.

• Is independently accountable for portions of launch and strategy execution as assigned.

Product Delivery & Development Lifecycle

• Has a thorough understanding of the broader product experience.

• Drives key end-to-end lifecycle components, from planning to release.

• Has a thorough understanding of the company's SDLC processes, including agile processes.

• Helps drive solutions for complicated design challenges.

• Ensures that Product Managers write clear requirements for complex features or products and is responsive to requests for clarifications.

• Manages product without direct supervision, involving manager or other senior leaders only when appropriate.

Strategy & Commercial Acumen

• Develops product vision and roadmap aligned with business strategy and communicate across all critical stakeholders.

• Understands and communicates the need to show a return on investment.

• Uses knowledge of competitors to inform product decisions and roadmaps.

• Writes or support business cases for investment.

• Understands how to use data to drive commercial decisions and growth opportunities for the product.

Technical Skills

• Understands company technology stack at a high level, for the broader product.

• Utilizes or extend the company's platform and underlying technologies to create new product features.

• Speaks knowledgably with tech and data counterparts about development approaches in consideration.

• Learns about new technologies to support new product development efforts.

• Is comfortable analyzing data using existing software packages (e.g. Excel).

Competencies:

Personal Capability

Practices Self-Development

• Takes ownership of own development and career

• Initiates regular conversations with manager, coach or mentor regarding self-development

• Learns from success and failures

• Understands what is required by the business to be successful and maps develo