Senior Product Manager

Wood Mackenzie; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Wood Mackenzie, a global leader in analytics and data across energy and natural resources, is seeking a dynamic Senior Product Manager to join the Commodities Product team covering Gas & LNG, Oils & Chemicals and Metals & Mining.

You will collaborate with Research Analysts, Data teams, UX and Engineering to translate customer needs into actionable features and guide go-to-market efforts with Sales and Marketing. Strong experience with agile product development is essential.

Qualifications

• Experienced Product Manager, or Analyst looking to expand their role into the Product Management space.
• Experience with the product development cycle including agile software development (Scrum/Kanban), design process, and instrumenting analytics.
• Basic industry knowledge and strong interest on one or multiple sectors covered in our portfolio (Gas & LNG, Oils & Chemicals, Metals & Mining), understanding of the major players, market conditions, and industry standards. Intellectual curiosity for industry is a must.
• Experience working on data migrations projects, and using AI in product development is a strong plus.
• Good oral and written communication skills

Responsibilities

• Act as the day-to-day point person for the cross-functional team, providing a seamless bridge between Research Analysts, Data teams, UX, and Engineering to identify solutions that work within a set of defined constraints and align to the broader business strategy and achieve customer-focused results.
• Align understanding by defining user requirements with clear acceptance criteria across multiple features
• Assist in documentation and testing of given solutions to ensure fit for customers
• Collaborate with the Senior Product Manager to help communicate product value and priorities to internal teams, including sales and marketing
• Foster healthy culture, support and collaboration for a distributed team

Skills

Product management

Agile methodologies

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Industry knowledge

Tools

JIRA

Productboard

Amplitude

Job description

Wood Mackenzie is the global leader in analytics, insights and proprietary data across the entire energy and natural resources landscape.

For over 50 years our work has guided the decisions of the world’s most influential energy producers, utilities companies, financial institutions and governments.

Now, with the world’s energy system more complex and interconnected than ever before, sector-specific views are no longer enough. That’s why we’ve redefined what’s possible with Intelligence Connected.

By fusing our unparalleled proprietary data with the sharpest analytical minds, all supercharged by Synoptic AI, we deliver a clear, interconnected view of the entire value chain. Our trusted team of 2,700 experts across 30 countries breaks siloes and connects industries, markets and regions across the globe.

This empowers our customers to identify risk sooner, spot opportunities faster and recalibrate strategy with confidence – whether planning days, weeks, months or decades ahead.

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• Inclusive – we succeed together
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• Customer committed – we put customers at the heart of our decisions
• Future Focused – we accelerate change
• Curious – we turn knowledge into action

Job Description

To support the development of our Lens data analytics platform, we are looking for a dynamic Senior Product Manager to be an integral part of our Commodities Product team covering Gas & LNG, Oils & Chemicals and Metals & Mining.

Knowledge & experience

• Experienced Product Manager, or Analyst looking to expand their role into the Product Management space
• Experience with the product development cycle including agile software development (Scrum/Kanban), design process, and instrumenting analytics.
• Basic industry knowledge and strong interest on one or multiple sectors covered in our portfolio (Gas & LNG, Oils & Chemicals, Metals & Mining), understanding of the major players, market conditions, and industry standards. Intellectual curiosity for industry is a must.
• Experience working on data migrations projects, and using AI in product development is a strong plus.
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Key tools that we use are JIRA, Productboard and Amplitude. Our tech stack is mainly on AWS and Snowflake.

Impact on the team

• Act as the day-to-day point person for the cross-functional team, providing a seamless bridge between Research Analysts, Data teams, UX, and Engineering to identify solutions that work within a set of defined constraints and align to the broader business strategy and achieve customer-focused results.
• Align understanding by defining user requirements with clear acceptance criteria across multiple features
• Assist in documentation and testing of given solutions to ensure fit for customers
• Collaborate with the Senior Product Manager to help communicate product value and priorities to internal teams, including sales and marketing
• Foster healthy culture, support and collaboration for a distributed team

Stakeholder & client relationships

• Translate requirements from customers and defining the product functionality according to wider customer needs
• Inform senior stakeholders on progress and raise risks to the appropriate level
• Engage frequently with users to gather feedback from relevant customers and internal stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Marketing and Sales to enable go-to-market effort

Equal Opportunities

We are an equal opportunities employer. This means we are committed to recruiting the best people regardless of their race, colour, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, disability or protected veteran status. You can find out more about your rights under the law at www.eeoc.gov