Product Manager

About The Team/Role

Evaluates business opportunities to define and optimize the product portfolio through analysis and understanding of targeted markets, market trends, new technology, customer business issues and the competitive environment. Applies broad knowledge of company product capabilities and service offerings with in-depth analysis of market position to create and expand the portfolio of products and solution alternatives. Works closely with product development to create products and validates early product definitions with customers. Uses technical expertise and extensive industry experience to formulate product strategies and identify new product opportunities. Responsible for developing project plans designed to address customer needs and/or expand market share.

Deliver best in class experiences and enabling capabilities that delight customers and win in the market. Understand the external market and customer needs to define the priorities and inspire the broader team. Build the product roadmap, define user users and drive tradeoff decisions. Lead 1-2 scrum teams to align on mission and deliver great results iteratively. Leverages qualitative and quantitative data to measure results, inform roadmap and achieve benefit, adoption and financial results. Cross collaborates with Sr PMs / Analytics / UX on product research to come up with better and disruptive solutions. Engage in technical discussions with senior engineers to define product strategy, create value, and impact the direction of products and the business. Be a trusted partner that can present effectively to high-level stakeholders, set clear priorities and direction, and begin to build bridges across groups

How you’ll make an impact

• Strategic Mindset: Seek to understand WEX’s corporate strategy, the competitive environment and market trends and how our products can create value.
• Customer Obsessed: Deeply understand our customers’ needs through customer empathy, data and prioritize work.
• Results Focused: Leverage data to understand how the product is performing and prioritize work.
• Insights Driven: Use qualitative and quantitative insights to drive decisions, define experiments and prioritize roadmap.
• Trusted Partner: Appreciate and comprehend different points of view and share information clearly and transparently with strong collaboration while knowing when to escalate.
  
  

• Undergraduate degree required, advanced degree is a plus.
• Mobile industry knowledge.
• Proven ability to work closely with engineering teams and other product teams to prioritize and deliver features.
• Experience of identifying customer problems, roadmap prioritization, writing detailed requirement documents, managing a backlog and maintaining thorough documentation.
• Strong execution skills, with a focus on driving results.
• Experience writing hypotheses, experimenting, and following a “build, test, iterate” approach.
• Experience embracing an end-to-end view of the product lifecycle, including discovery, first use and support.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical orientation with the ability to identify root cause of issues, develop recommendations and influence others.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to inspire teams around a vision and influence key stakeholders.
• Curious and a learning mindset.