Lead Product Manager

TN United Kingdom; High Wycombe; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in simulation technology seeks a Lead Program Manager Solutions to define strategy and product roadmap for shared technology components. This role involves collaboration across departments to ensure alignment with strategic objectives and drive product adoption.

Qualifications

• 8 years experience with a Bachelor's, 6 years with a Master's, or 4 years with a PhD.
• Experience leading projects and delivering high-quality products.

Responsibilities

• Drive alignment between shared technology components and company initiatives.
• Collaborate with development leads to ensure delivery and adoption of platform capabilities.
• Lead and evolve the go-to-market strategy for shared technology components.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Organizational Skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Master’s degree

PhD

Job description

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Our Mission: Powering Innovation That Drives Human Advancement

When visionary companies need to know how their world-changing ideas will perform, they close the gap between design and reality with Ansys simulation. For more than 50 years, Ansys software has enabled innovators across industries to push boundaries by using the predictive power of simulation. From sustainable transportation to advanced semiconductors, from satellite systems to life-saving medical devices, the next great leaps in human advancement will be powered by Ansys.

Innovate With Ansys, Power Your Career.

Summary / Role Purpose

Shared technology components are an increasingly important part of the Ansys pervasive insights strategy to expand the footprint and drive broader adoption of Ansys products and solutions.The Lead Program Manager Solutions is responsible for helping to define the overall strategy and product roadmap for solutions and platform shared technology components (STCs). This includes ensuring alignment between STCs and company-wide strategic objectives, influencing development priorities across target use cases, and driving the delivery and adoption of platform capabilities within the Ansys portfolio and ecosystem. This role requires the ability to communicate cross-functionally and build strong relationships with development, customer excellence, sales, marketing, and customers to ensure a comprehensive strategy for bringing STCs to market.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Drive alignment between shared technology components (STCs) and critical company and customer initiatives.
• Collaborate with development leads and stakeholders to ensure delivery and adoption of platform capabilities.
• Refine and improve the planning and communication process for STCs to efficiently adapt to changing customer needs while maximizing the impact of current offerings.
• Provide a prioritized list of strategic initiatives to guide planning resource allocation.
• Lead and evolve the go to market strategy for shared technology components.
• Provide training to Customer Excellence and Account Teams as necessary

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a related field with 8 years of experience, or master’s with 6 years of experience, or PhD with 4 years of experience
• Excellent organizational, leadership, decision-making, and communication skills, with the ability to work collaboratively in a geographically distributed organization
• Experience leading projects and delivering high-quality products in a large-scale commercial organization
• Experience and understanding of the full end-to-end simulation process from geometry to solution post-processing
• Awareness of industry trends towards automation and democratization, requiring workflows that are fast, accurate, and easy-to-use

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

• Firsthand cloud deployment experience with customer IT challenges both technical and process change related
• Professional experience in a role as an application engineer or product manager is highly desired
• In-depth experience in requirements definition, market research & analysis, and project planning
• Ability to overcome obstacles and drive projects to completion

At Ansys, we know that changing the world takes vision, skill, and each other. We fuel new ideas, build relationships, and help each other realize our greatest potential. We are ONE Ansys. We operate on three key components: our commitments to stakeholders, our values that guide how we work together, and our actions to deliver results. As ONE Ansys, we are powering innovation that drives human advancement

Our Commitments:

• Amaze with innovative products and solutions
• Make our customers incredibly successful
• Act with integrity
• Ensure employees thrive and shareholders prosper

Our Values:

• Adaptability: Be open, welcome what’s next
• Authenticity: Be you, make us stronger

Our Actions:

• We commit to audacious goals
• We work seamlessly as a team

VALUES IN ACTION

Ansys is committed to powering the people who power human advancement. We believe in creating and nurturing a workplace that supports and welcomes people of all backgrounds; encouraging them to bring their talents and experience to a workplace where they are valued and can thrive.

Our culture is grounded in our four core values of adaptability, courage, generosity, and authenticity. Through our behaviors and actions, these values foster higher team performance and greater innovation for our customers.

We’re proud to offer programs, available to all employees, to further impact innovation and business outcomes, such as employee networks and learning communities that inform solutions for our globally minded customer base.

WELCOME WHAT’S NEXT IN YOUR CAREER AT ANSYS

At Ansys, you will find yourself among the sharpest minds and most visionary leaders across the globe. Collectively, we strive to change the world with innovative technology and transformational solutions. With a prestigious reputation in working with well-known, world-class companies, standards at Ansys are high — met by those willing to rise to the occasion and meet those challenges head on. Our team is passionate about pushing the limits of world-class simulation technology, empowering our customers to turn their design concepts into successful, innovative products faster and at a lower cost. Ready to feel inspired? Check out some of our recent customer stories, and .

At Ansys, it’s about the learning, the discovery, and the collaboration. It’s about the “what’s next” as much as the “mission accomplished.” And it’s about the melding of disciplined intellect with strategic direction and results that have, can, and do impact real people in real ways. All this is forged within a working environment built on respect, autonomy, and ethics.

CREATING A PLACE WE’RE PROUD TO BE
Ansys is an S&P 500 company and a member of the NASDAQ-100. We are proud to have been recognized for the following more recent awards, although our list goes on: Newsweek’s Most Loved Workplace globally and in the , Gold Stevie Award Winner, America’s Most Responsible Companies, Fast Company World Changing Ideas, Great Place to Work Certified (China, Greece, France, India, Japan, Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, and ).