Reuters needs to deepen customer understanding, focus and elevate its product portfolio, and continuously improve the customer experience to align with the most important needs of its global media customers and maintain its market-leading position.
Requirements
- Deep familiarity around advanced technologies
- Strong analytical, problem solving, and decision-making skills
- Ability to define the strategy for a portfolio of products that bring clarity to an ambiguous problem space and get alignment with cross-functional leadership stakeholders to execute and dedicate resources to the plan
- Leveraging leading-edge technology solutions
- Overhauling product capabilities
- Build a modern product organization focused on agile methodology, defined OKR’s and a structured product road map
- Data-driven; seeks and analyzes data from a variety of sources to support decisions and to align others with the organization's overall strategy
Responsibilities
- Owning the end-to-end lifecycle for Reuters products including product discovery, ideation, design, development, and market launch
- Driving product development with a cross-functional group of engineers, subject matter experts, designers, data analysts and user researchers and their leadership group
- Build a modern product organization focused on agile methodology, defined OKR’s and a structured product road map
- Creates innovative and compelling product ideas that clearly address customer problems and needs, are clearly aligned to the mission of the company, and reflect product principles that govern prioritization decisions
- Demonstrates deep customer empathy and is experienced in collaborating with designers and researchers and using design methods to explore and validate customer problems
- Data-driven; seeks and analyzes data from a variety of sources to support decisions and to align others with the organization's overall strategy
- Collaborates across departments and with external partners to ship products on time and within expectations
Other
- Proven successful leadership of product management in a software or information business
- Significant experience in leading global product teams including leading and building a world-class Product function
- Experience leading a diverse, complex product suite while taking a customer-centric approach
- Ability to influence c-level executives with experience pitching and affecting major investments and significant shifts in strategy
- Required ability to travel up to 20% of the time, including globally
