Staff Product Operations Lead, Portfolio & Roadmaps

Nextpower; Fremont (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Nextpower is seeking a Staff Product Operations Manager to connect product strategy, roadmaps, prioritization, and portfolio decisions across a multi-product R&D org. You’ll partner with PM, R&D Ops, Program Mgmt, Eng and Finance to scale product management and priorities.

You’ll provide structure, analytics and governance to enable leadership tradeoffs, while PMs stay focused on customers, markets and outcomes. California-based salary range provided.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering or related field.
• 12+ years of experience in Product Management, Product Operations or related functions.
• Experience in global complex product-development environments; hardware or engineering-intensive industries preferred.
• 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 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

Analytical skills

Cross-functional leadership

Executive communication

KPI reporting

Portfolio prioritization

Stakeholder influence

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business or Engineering

MBA preferred

Job description

Nextpower is seeking a Staff Product Operations Manager to connect product strategy, roadmaps, prioritization, and portfolio decisions across a multi-product R&D org. You’ll partner with PM, R&D Ops, Program Mgmt, Eng and Finance to scale product management and priorities.

You’ll provide structure, analytics and governance to enable leadership tradeoffs, while PMs stay focused on customers, markets and outcomes. California-based salary range provided.