Senior Product Manager, Welocalize
Translation & localization for global businesses
Job no longer available
Translation & localization for global businesses
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bridge language and AI to power global success in even the most complicated and regulated environments.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- 5+ years of relevant work experience in in software product management. Experience in AI/ML is a bonus
- Executive Interaction: Demonstrated ability to work with senior executives, stakeholders, and users to define and manage scope, strategy, and requirements
- Quantitative Skills: Strong ability to seek out, understand, and dive into data, research, and others' thoughts to support data-driven decision-making
- Communication Skills: A well-rounded communicator, collaborator, and presenter who loves to share findings and insights
- Technical Proficiency: Strong practical knowledge of MS Office, Atlassian (JIRA, Confluence)
- Methodology Understanding: Understanding of Lean and Agile methodologies
- Attention to Detail: Self-motivated with critical attention to detail, deadlines, and reporting
- Problem-Solving: Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
- Autonomy & Teamwork: Ability to work well autonomously and within a team in a fast-paced and deadline-oriented environment
- Communication Skills: Strong verbal and written communication skills (including analysis, interpretation, & reasoning)
- Presentation Skills: Ability to build clear and concise presentations and communicate effectively at every level of the organization
- Product Execution: Demonstrated specialization, execution, and delivery of software products
- Project Management Skills: Demonstrated project management skills, including effective planning, organizing, and administration of multi-functional work responsibilities
- Facilitation Skills: Demonstrated ability to facilitate cross-functional planning sessions (e.g., Scrum and Squad in Agile)
- Team Inspiration: Demonstrated ability to effectively partner across, collaborate with, and inspire teams and individuals, including remote employees
- Negotiation Skills: Ability to negotiate and resolve complex and sensitive issues with diplomacy and persuasiveness
What the job involves
- The Product Manager is a cross-functional position that requires taking ownership and responsibility for a product/service and all issues and considerations related to it
- As a Product Manager, you’ll be the bridge between product stakeholders and the development team, taking the business requirements and defining the product requirements
- Success depends on your ability to have deep knowledge of our customers' journey, the Welocalize business, and the impact of data
- Strategic Development: Play a central role in building capabilities that will empower multiple business-critical software projects
- Roadmap Leadership: Build insights into Welocalize use cases, strategize where software solutions can be applied to drive business impact and use these insights to build and champion the product roadmap
- Cross-functional collaboration: Closely partner with outstanding talent across engineering teams and drive tight integration with other systems to build effective software solutions
- Objective Setting: Define clear OKRs to ensure progress towards our goal of driving software adoption and effectiveness
- Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with internal operational stakeholders, external clients, and our engineering team to ensure product success
- Requirement Analysis & Solution Design: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements, define clear objectives, and develop technical plans. Work with stakeholders to identify opportunities where software can provide valuable insights and solutions
- Performance Assessment: Develop metrics that reflect the needs of the business for their stakeholder cases, partner in the analysis of experiment results, interpret findings, and provide actionable recommendations
- Industry Awareness: Stay updated with the latest advancements in software development, technologies, and methodologies
- Product Development Leadership: Lead product development and launches by working with multiple stakeholders to define product requirements, prioritize features, and manage timelines
- Performance Monitoring: Monitor product performance and user feedback to ensure product success
- Stakeholder Engagement Plan: Develop and execute a formal plan to regularly engage with stakeholders to ensure all product needs are captured
- Requirement Documentation: Ensure that requirements slated for development are internally consistent, well-described, and granular enough to be implemented by developers
- Team Collaboration: Collaborate with the development team by involving them in the development of the product vision, sharing credit for success, thinking through nuances before presenting requirements, and creating schedules through consensus
- Culture Contribution: Contribute to a culture of excellence, open communication, courage, and respect
Our take
According to the CSA, while only 16% of the global population speaks English as their native language, approximately 60% of the top 10M websites are in English. With over 250 language options, Welocalize enables companies to unlock business opportunities at a global scale by transforming and localizing its clients’ online websites and content.
The company has made an impressive number of strategic acquisitions over the years, widening its reach across a range of industries including digital content marketing, litigation support, and healthcare, and is a trusted multilingual solution for 2,000+ global company clients (including Disney, Uber, Dell, TNT, and Blackboard).
Founded in 1997, the company is currently the 4th largest language service provider in North America and the 9th largest provider globally. Welocalize is well-positioned to see continued growth as it furthers its market-leading presence, including by making moves to strengthen its leadership team moving forward.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
28% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Nov 2010
$34m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $34m
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Leadership
Paul Carr
(CEO)Prior to joining Welocalize in 2023, Paul was a President at Third Bridge Group for 4 years and a President at Axiom for 10 years. He also spent 4 years at American Express as a VP and Head of Strategy/GM of International Insurance Services.
Chris Grebisz
(CTO)Chris joined Welocalize in 2002, leaving the team in 2008 to work in leadership roles at various Software Development companies. He then returned to Welocalize in 2013 and has since led operations in the Americas and now oversees the companies digital transformation and technology development worldwide.
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