Job Description

Senior Global Product Manager - Job Description

Description

Speaker Products (Ultimate Ears & Logitech)

The Role

We are looking for a passionate product manager that showcases outstanding product management and communication skills to drive effective teamwork across several teams and functions both internal and external.

You must be a driven self-starter who can own and drive a clear vision while adapting to a fast paced market. Organization, details, and deadlines are critical for success. As a product manager you must be capable of working independently and within small cross functional teams globally.

The ideal candidate has led the development of several speaker products from inception to market launch. He/She is deeply rooted in the audio and sound space, out of passion and interest and/or is living or has been following a career in those respective areas.

Your Contribution

Move fast. Speak up. Decide and own. Drive change. Exceed customer needs. These are some of the winning behaviors you’ll need for success at Logitech. In this role you will:

• Definition of value proposition based on insights.
• Define global consumer research needs and target user pain points to identify articulated and non-articulated consumer needs.
• Establish and lead scientific research agenda to support product definition and development and drive long term innovation.
• Manage the product development process to ensure the product is developed to meet customer needs and within the agreed timeline and budget
• Collaborate closely with engineering, portfolio and design teams to reach optimal tradeoff between the vision of the product experience, time to market and product cost.
• Drive prototyping and iterations process to improve the product experience.
• Maintain intelligence on competition products performance.
• Working closely with the leadership team to determine the product’s direction and ensure it aligns with the company’s overall goals.
• Effectively prioritize and deliver multiple projects in a fast-paced environment

Key Qualifications

For consideration, you must bring the following minimum skills and behaviors to our team:

• 8+ years of demonstrable experiences in a product management or product marketing
• Position- Experience with defining the end-to-end product experience - product definition, pricing, positioning, and launch: translate customer and market insights into a concrete

Product definition and go-to-market plan

• Excellent creative and problem-solving skills - Deeply curious: you seek to understand and ask “Why?” repeatedly.
• Objective and analytical: you seek data and know the difference between facts and opinions.
• Recognized leadership skills – strong ability to lead by influence. You know how to lead with a team of cross-functional peers and have them excitedly join you on a journey to create and build the best possible product experience for our customer.
• Strong ability to empathize with customer and consumer challenges and tensions; demonstrable experience with global consumer needs and developing products used in multiple cultures and/or by multiple user groups.
• Strong understanding of product (hardware and software) life cycle process, engineering principles and design constraints.
• Strong business acumen – capable of big picture thinking.
• Decisive and able to deal with ambiguity, guiding other team members through it.
• Ability to thrive in a multi-disciplinary environment and to both lead and collaborate in cross functional teams.
• Ability to quickly grasp technology constraints and capabilities.
• Strong interest in consumer electronics and technology business, industry / industry issues and competitors.
• Excellent communication (oral & written) skills – English and Mandarin required
• Best candidate will be curious, insightful, and creative, with a strong entrepreneurial mindset.

Education

• Minimum - Undergraduate degree in business, engineering, product design or related.
• Ideal - Masters degree focused on business strategy, and user experience.

Small Company. Big Products.

At Logitech we act like a small company. We believe that anyone can have the best idea. We are innovators, creators and designers. We challenge ourselves and each other, and believe that success is never final. We push the limit, because great is not good enough. We inspire, delight and empower the world. We are Logitech.

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