Product Director - IOE Cardano

Input Output (IOHK); United Kingdom; On-site; USD 195,000 - 323,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Product Director, where you'll lead a dynamic team to transform product management practices. This role focuses on developing cohesive product strategies, mentoring talent, and aligning community feedback with market needs. You'll collaborate cross-functionally to ensure innovative product offerings and drive strategic initiatives. With a commitment to excellence and a culture that values ideas, this position offers the opportunity to make a significant impact in a competitive landscape. If you're passionate about product innovation and leadership, this is the role for you.

Benefits

Remote work

Laptop reimbursement

New starter package for hardware essentials

Learning & Development opportunities

Competitive PTO

Qualifications

• Extensive senior experience in product management with leadership roles.
• Experience in blockchain or cryptocurrency technologies is essential.
• Proven track record in competitive markets.

Responsibilities

• Mentor and build a high-performance product management team.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to align product vision.
• Engage with customers to ensure needs are reflected in product roadmaps.

Skills

Leadership

Analytical Thinking

Product Harmonisation

Community Engagement

Collaboration

Innovation

Technical Knowledge

Education

BSc/BA in a relevant field

MBA or relevant graduate degree

Product Management certification

Tools

Agile methodologies

Market research tools

Job description

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Summary

As Product Director at IOE, you will lead the transformation of our product management practice, developing a high-performing team and ensuring that all products fit together cohesively to deliver a unified ecosystem. You will mentor the product management team in developing the product vision, strategy, and roadmaps while ensuring harmonisation across products. Your role will involve gathering community feedback to inform product direction, aligning emerging opportunities with market needs. You will report to the General Manager of IOE, providing regular updates on milestones and progress toward strategic objectives. Additionally, you will be tasked with crafting a robust strategy around IOE's role in the vertical, leveraging both existing products and new opportunities within the ecosystem.

Summary

As Product Director at IOE, you will lead the transformation of our product management practice, developing a high-performing team and ensuring that all products fit together cohesively to deliver a unified ecosystem. You will mentor the product management team in developing the product vision, strategy, and roadmaps while ensuring harmonisation across products. Your role will involve gathering community feedback to inform product direction, aligning emerging opportunities with market needs. You will report to the General Manager of IOE, providing regular updates on milestones and progress toward strategic objectives. Additionally, you will be tasked with crafting a robust strategy around IOE's role in the vertical, leveraging both existing products and new opportunities within the ecosystem.

Duties


Mentor and build a high performance team

• Mentor and build a high-performance product management team. Guide Product Managers in delivering outcomes that provide sustainable value and ensure alignment between individual products and broader business goals
• Make informed, analytical decisions to prioritise initiatives, ensuring the team focuses on the most impactful projects
• Coach Product teams in setting and analysing product objectives, continuously evaluating performance and making improvements as needed
• Drives strategic projects and initiatives in the business
• Lead, drive, and provide direction to the product managers to ensure their success and professional development through ongoing learning and development
• Encourage a culture where great ideas are heard, evaluated, and invested in
  
  
  

Global Product Strategy & Management

• Collaborate with senior leadership to align the global product vision and strategy. Ensure that all products fit together harmoniously, creating a cohesive ecosystem
• Manage product lifecycle from strategic planning to tactical execution, incorporating insights from market research, customer feedback, and internal stakeholders
• Execute roadmap strategies and bringing valuable, highly differentiated and elegantly designed capabilities to market
  
  
  

Customer Support

• Engage with customers, partners, and community stakeholders to ensure their needs are reflected in product roadmaps and updates
• Conduct market research, surveys and customer/prospect visits to understand and specify requirements for target markets
• Leverage customer input to refine and quantify the potential of new product opportunities
  
  
  

Product Marketing, PR and Business Intelligence

• Collaborate with marketing and design teams to understand community and industry needs, positioning products effectively in the market
• Monitor competitive offerings, staying ahead of trends to ensure IOE products remain innovative and highly competitive
• Engage with marketing and communications teams to inform users about product updates, ensuring smooth and transparent communication
  
  
  

Cross-discipline collaboration (Business development, Product management , Operations, Technical Architecture )

• Managing the collection, description, analysis and prioritization of requests for new product functionality from customers, prospects, partners, sales, and market-driven forces
• Working with operations to gain awareness of potential defects and prioritizing their resolution in the product release plan and roadmap
• Working with Product Managers, Program Management & Engineering to ensure that features are delivered in the right sequence and meet business expectations in terms of quality, function and schedule.
• Working with engineering and design teams to deliver a captivating, reliable, and easy to use experience with excellent UI
• Providing support on product selection, presentations and pricing strategy
• Collaborate closely with the technical architecture team to ensure alignment on system design, integration, and scalability, fostering efficient and scalable solutions across projects
  
  
  

Technical Product management contributions

• Providing technical guidance in evaluating applications systems or evaluating requests for proposals
• Working in an Agile Product Development process creating well thought-out and consumable user stories
  
  
  

Leadership

As Leaders it is our responsibility to motivate, develop and progress our fellow team members. As a Leader there is a need to communicate openly with all members of your team, address any issues head on and not shy away from difficult conversations.

Empowering your team to provide the best results by organizing clear processes and coordinating team efforts should be your top priority.

Please read our Leadership at IO Global document for more information on your duties and responsibilities as a leader at IOG

Requirements


Key Competencies

• Leadership: Strong leadership and mentoring skills to build and inspire high-performing teams
• Analytical Thinking: Data-driven decision-making capabilities with a focus on delivering the most impactful solutions
• Product Harmonisation: A strategic mindset to ensure that all products fit together into a cohesive ecosystem
• Community Engagement: Proven ability to gather and apply community feedback to guide product direction
• Collaboration: Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills to work with engineering, marketing, and design teams
• Innovation: Ability to stay ahead of market trends and drive product innovation in a competitive landscape
• Technical Knowledge: Understanding of blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies, with an interest in emerging trends
  
  
  

Education / Experience

• Extensive senior experience in product management with several years in a leadership role
• Demonstrated experience on highly successful ventures in tough, competitive markets.
• Product Management certification is a plus (CPM, AIPMM)
• A background in distributed computing with at least 5 years of experience in blockchain or cryptocurrency technologies
• Experience working in an Agile environment and leading highly technical engineering teams
• Experience implementing processes to define metrics and measure the success of products that are launched
• Experience working with software development and marketing teams, preferably in fintech
• BSc/BA in a relevant field; MBA or other relevant graduate degree is a plus
  
  
  

Benefits

• Remote work
• Laptop reimbursement
• New starter package to buy hardware essentials (headphones, monitor, etc)
• Learning & Development opportunities
• Competitive PTO
  
  

At IOG, we value diversity and always treat all employees and job applicants based on merit, qualifications, competence, and talent. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Product Management and Marketing

• Industries

  Non-profit Organizations and Primary and Secondary Education

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