Engineering - DXR Engineering - Product Manager - Vice President - New York

Goldman Sachs • New York, NY

6d

About The Position

Developer Experience and Runtime (DXR) aims to enhance the productivity and
efficiency of engineers, accelerate the adoption of container runtimes, and
harness AI technologies to empower engineers, in order to deliver a holistic
developer experience.

Application Development Platform provides tools, including AI solutions for
developers, and platforms to build and operate cloud-native solutions, APIs, and
web & mobile apps, with a focus on measuring and improving developer
productivity.

SDLC Engineering delivers a modern, secure, and highly available environment for
source control, code review, build, test, software distribution, and production
activation.

SecDb Platform provides long-term support and consultancy for the firm's
strategic trading, pricing, and risk management system, SecDb.

Runtime Platform consists of scalable, highly available, and efficient platforms
and services for job scheduling, grid computing, Compute-as-a-Service,
containerization, and file transfer.

We are continuing our journey focusing on applying a product mentality to the
way we build our products and ensure that we focus on our clients and their
needs to build the right product at the right time. This role will be
responsible for working with software engineers to guide the design, development
and operation of mission critical products.

Your Impact

A successful product management candidate will bring a passion for technology
services and the developers who use them, strong business acumen and judgment,
ability to define and evolve products, desire to have a firm wide impact on our
developer experience, and ability to work within a fast-moving environment in a
large company to rapidly deliver services that have a broad business impact.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
• 7+; years of previous work experience as a Product Manager, preferably in a technical product management role
• Demonstrated success collaborating with design and engineering peers to lead a product development team
• Comfortable with Agile processes, with an emphasis on creating backlogs that support the product roadmap
• Proven ability to influence and/or lead a cross-functional team without direct authority
• Ability to translate customer needs into a product roadmap
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex problems and roadmaps to stakeholders
• Ability to define a value driven business case for new products and KPIs to track success of new product.
• Ability to engage with and influence stakeholders outside their direct control
• Proven ability to lead by example, with a positive attitude
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to set goals, meet deadlines, and effectively communicate progress to stakeholders
• Must have experience with managing client expectations and communicating effectively with individuals at all levels of the organization
• Highly organized, attention to detail and excellent follow through skills

Nice To Haves

• Experience managing an entire product's lifecycle, from conception to launch
• Deep knowledge of cloud hyperscaler ecosystems
• Experience defining vision and strategy for cloud-based products, from ideation to launch.
• Experience with cloud architecture and design
• Experience managing day-to-day technical and design direction
• Knowledge of multiple functional areas such as product management, engineering, user experience, user research, sales, trading, treasury, customer support or marketing
• Experience with Amazon’s Working Backwards process and drafting narratives/PRFaqs in clear, concise manner.
• Familiar with machine learning and data products

Responsibilities

• Lead Product Definition – Own and drive the customer working backwards strategy, tenets, long-term goals and working backwards documents (press release, FAQ) including customer feedback, competitive analysis and business metrics to inform direction. E.g., evaluate new use-cases for distributed scheduling, new continuous deployment product
• Define Product Roadmap – Including all aspects to future roadmap, investment, innovation, and experimentation.
• Execution of Product Planning and Development – Including customer goals and business requirements for product release, ensuring implementation is aligned with product goals and requirements, and ownership of product positioning.
• Lead Product Launch – Lead GTM delivery, ensuring the customer and business goals are met in operational launch plans.
• Lead Operations – Including monitoring and response to customer feedback, continuous improvement and adoption.
• Lead interaction with Technical Team – Including helping the technical team make tradeoffs based on customer requirements, QA/testing of the product.
• Influence senior leaders across the firm for the product’s vision, strategy, goals, status, and customer impact

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level