Product Manager

Product Manager

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Monotype (Global)

Named "One of the Most Innovative Companies in Design" by Fast Company, Monotype brings brands to life through type and technology that consumers engage with every day. The company's rich legacy includes a library that can be traced back hundreds of years, featuring famed typefaces like Helvetica, Futura, Times New Roman and more.

Monotype also provides a first-of-its-kind service that makes fonts more accessible for creative professionals to discover, license, and use in our increasingly digital world. We work with the biggest global brands, and with individual creatives, offering a wide set of solutions that make it easier for them to do what they do best: design beautiful brand experiences.

Monotype Solutions India

Monotype Solutions India is a strategic center of excellence for Monotype and is a certified Great Place to Work® three years in a row. The focus of this fast-growing center spans Product Development, Product Management, Experience Design, User Research, Market Intelligence, Research in areas of Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning, Innovation, Customer Success, Enterprise Business Solutions, and Sales. Headquartered in the Boston area of the United States and with offices across 4 continents, Monotype is the world’s leading company in fonts. It’s a trusted partner to the world’s top brands and was named “One of the Most Innovative Companies in Design” by Fast Company.

Monotype brings brands to life through the type and technology that consumers engage with every day. The company's rich legacy includes a library that can be traced back hundreds of years, featuring famed typefaces like Helvetica, Futura, Times New Roman, and more. Monotype also provides a first-of-its-kind service that makes fonts more accessible for creative professionals to discover, license, and use in our increasingly digital world. We work with the biggest global brands, and with individual creatives, offering a wide set of solutions that make it easier for them to do what they do best: design beautiful brand experiences.

What you’ll be doing:

● Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI

● Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product, ensure that the development team always has an adequate number of groomed stories to work on to maximize capacity

● Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy

● Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories

● Lead the planning product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities

● Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals

● Work closely with internal Research team to analyze market, users, and the roadmap for the product

● Follow competition and industry trends, as well as Agile/Scrum best practices and trends

● Build and manage strong working relationships with the cross-functional teams including Engineering, Operations, User Experience, Customer Care, Sales, Sales Support and external vendors needed to drive an efficient development effort for new Digital Commerce initiatives.

● Ensures communication with all stakeholders is being managed effectively.

What we’re looking for:

● Master’s Degree in Business or bachelor’s degree in Technology OR 5+ years in Product Development and/or Product Management, B2B SaaS experience is required. In-depth knowledge of Agile process and principles

● Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills.

● Creative thinker with a vision.

● Demonstrates aptitude of attention to detail.

● Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies and assess value to business goal and strategy.

● Eagerness to learn from a new environment and make an impact quickly.

● Experience with leading large, cross-functional teams in order to achieve business goals and results.

● Ability to plan, prioritize and organize effectively and independently.

● Ability to understand complex and technical concepts and translate them into simplified product attributes to deliver an enhanced customer experience.

● Proficient with Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

● Aptitude for technical products

● Excellent cognitive and communication skills

● Excellent analytical skills

● Strong business sense and sense of urgency to achieve business results

● Prior experience working with desktop applications will be preferred, not mandatory.

You will have an opportunity to:

● COLLABORATE with global teams to build scalable web-based applications

● PARTNER closely with the engineering team to follow best practices and standards.

● PROVIDE reliable solutions to a variety of problems using sound problem solving techniques

● WORK with the broader team to build and maintain high performance, flexible and highly scalable web-based applications

● ACHIEVE engineering excellence by implementing standard practices and standards

● PERFORM technical root causes analysis and outlines corrective action for given problems

•Monotype is expanding globally. Proficiency in one or more of the following languages is desirable (not mandatory) for this role: German, Japanese, French, Spanish.

Monotype is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status

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