Staff Product Manager, Aurora Solar

• Leadership: able to set the direction, inspire the team, and make key decisions to drive the company forward
• Experience: 7+ years of product management experience with a track record of achieving results through Product Management leadership at the company level, especially with relevant experience driving product expansion into new markets
• Big Thinking: to define, align, and evangelize a product vision and strategy
• Collaboration: a reliable and valued member of the team to encourage and enable others to succeed
• Emotional intelligence: listens, appreciates, and promotes team members’ perspectives, goals, and opportunities
• User focus: passionate about creating the best product solutions for your users
• Systems thinking: able to dissect complex systems, workflows, and multiple user personas to create the best solutions within the surrounding context
• Software development expertise: able to identify and act on opportunities to improve agile software development teams
• Rigor: asks hard questions, validates their assumptions, and guides the way to achieving goals
• Outcome-orientation: focuses on business results, not output
• Data-driven: able to evaluate data from multiple sources across the organization, and use data to inform key decisions. Surfaces and evangelizes progress toward key metrics
• Communication: able to clearly articulate ideas, concerns, and opportunities
• As needed, up to 15-20% of international travel (Central Europe)

Desirable

• Aurora Solar seeks mindful and strategic product managers passionate about delivering simple, useful, and unique solutions to intricate challenges
• Our product managers embody a customer-centric approach, dedicated to integrating the voice of our customers into every aspect of our work and empowering our organization to overcome the most significant obstacles our customers face
• This role will focus on the EU market to ensure product alignment and adaptability to meet market-specific cultural and language requirements
• Additionally, the role requires close attention to political and economic influences within the solar industry, analyzing their potential impact on the product, and making appropriate adjustments
• The responsibilities include synthesizing various information from the region, such as data, user research, customer interactions, and internal stakeholder perspectives
• The information will be used to identify and prioritize regional problem areas, ensuring a targeted approach to addressing challenges and driving product innovation
• Set a compelling long-term vision to drive growth through EU expansion
• Set a strategy to achieve that vision that is coherent with the company mission, the larger product and business strategy, the competitive landscape, and market trends
• Understand the culture and local market to influence the product strategy
• Meet regularly with our executive-level team members across departments to align a strategy, priorities, and execution plan
• Work closely with peers in Product Management, Product Design, Engineering, and GTM to align on strategy, resources, priorities, and roadmaps
• Work collaboratively with all our product development teams to plan and execute a roadmap that drives growth in international markets
• Build a deep understanding of our entire suite of products, how we serve customer needs today, and what ways we can extend our products to fit new market needs
• Meet with customers, partners, vendors, and industry leaders to build an understanding of product opportunities in new markets
• Conduct hands-on research with customers to identify user needs and test solutions
• Perform industry & competitive landscape research to define the strategic context for expansion into international markets
• Define the top product priorities for driving international growth, set clear & measurable goals, and track progress toward objectives & key results
• Accelerate our international growth by supporting product development teams and removing obstacles