Senior Product Portfolio & Operations Lead

Nextpower Inc; Fremont, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care coverage

401(k) matching

Stock compensation

Unlimited paid time off

Job summary

Nextpower Inc. seeks a Staff Product Operations Manager to connect product strategy, roadmaps, prioritization, and portfolio decisions across a multi-product R&D organization.

You will partner with Product Management, R&D Operations, Program Management, Engineering, and Finance to create scalable governance and analytics that inform leadership tradeoffs. In this role you will develop governance frameworks, executive dashboards, and KPI standards, ensuring inputs from product,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering or related field; MBA preferred but not required.
• 12+ years of experience in Product Management, Product Operations or related functions.
• Experience working in global complex product-development environments; hardware, industrial technology, or engineering-intensive industries preferred.
• Demonstrated experience with product roadmaps, portfolio prioritization, business cases, and executive governance.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to structure complex portfolio decisions and tradeoffs.
• Experience developing scalable processes, dashboards, KPIs, and executive reporting.
• Strong cross-functional leadership and communication skills with the ability to influence without direct authority.
• Ability to translate between product, engineering, financial, and executive stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product Managers to create governance around product strategies, value propositions, target markets, and strategic objectives.
• Integrate individual product strategies and roadmaps into a consolidated enterprise product portfolio view.
• Develop clear executive-level views of priorities, roadmap changes, portfolio performance, dependencies, tradeoffs and coordinate regular product portfolio reviews.
• Facilitate cross-product prioritization and develop tradeoff scenarios for leadership.
• Partner with R&D Program Management and Engineering to identify capacity and resource conflicts created by product priorities.
• Incorporate financial analysis, ROI, NPV, sensitivity analysis, and investment requirements into portfolio decisions.
• Ensure product, commercial, engineering, financial, and execution inputs are available for major portfolio decisions.
• Establish common product and portfolio KPI standards.

Skills

Bachelor's degree

12+ years experience

Cross-functional leadership

Executive governance

Portfolio prioritization

Roadmaps experience

Analytical skills

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business/Engineering

MBA preferred

Job description

Nextpower Inc. seeks a Staff Product Operations Manager to connect product strategy, roadmaps, prioritization, and portfolio decisions across a multi-product R&D organization.

You will partner with Product Management, R&D Operations, Program Management, Engineering, and Finance to create scalable governance and analytics that inform leadership tradeoffs. In this role you will develop governance frameworks, executive dashboards, and KPI standards, ensuring inputs from product,