Lead Product Manager |
Location: Paris, France
Hybrid: on-site and remote from other places in France, EU, and UK. |
About us
Motion is an American French tech B2B, B2B2C company, solutions include SaaS, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, and Online Marketplace.
We understand the value of innovation ecosystem connectedness and are building a company with the technical infrastructure and solutions to unlock the power of ecosystem connectedness to foster cross-border collaboration, accelerate innovation communities and provide efficient, simple, borderless access to technology and products aimed to make it easier for anyone to build and scale a business anytime from anywhere. In a unified platform where startups thrive, researchers, and investors cluster, opportunities to accelerate corporate innovation and the development of truly disruptive innovative products abound.
About the Role
As the Lead Product Manager, you will be focused on leading the product development and on delivering value to Motion platform customers and our network of 3rd party developers, working in a cross-functional team with colleagues in design, development, and QA. You will understand user behavior, analyze data, identify trends, craft strategies, lead cross-functional programs, measure impact, and drive wide-scale product implementation and rollout. You will collaborate closely with technology partners, UX designers, engineers, data scientists, analysts, machine learning experts, marketers and other cross-functional team members within the organization to ensure that our products amaze and delight our users. Working from our Paris office, you’ll collaborate with designers and engineers to build new features and products for the Motion Platform and ecosystem.
Responsibilities Will Include
Requirements For Position
Lead Product Manager must be fluent in French and English (able to lead and manage local and global teams and communicate in English with virtual teams from different locations).
Compensation:
This is a paid compensation package position commensurate with experience.
👀 Psst... we are giving you a trick: stand out when you apply by attaching to your resume a pitch, prez, link to a intro video, or other original content of your choice suggesting your ideas for the position or your past achievements. The goal is to discover you more!
Please apply via the job portal or send your CV / Resume along with a cover letter to talent (Code LPDM).
** LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY - NO VISA SPONSORING **
Motion is an American French tech B2B, B2B2C company, solutions include SaaS, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, and Online Marketplace.
We understand the value of innovation ecosystem connectedness and are building a company with the technical infrastructure and solutions to unlock the power of ecosystem connectedness to foster cross-border collaboration, accelerate innovation communities and provide efficient, simple, borderless access to technology and products aimed to make it easier for anyone to build and scale a business anytime from anywhere. In a unified platform where startups thrive, researchers, and investors cluster, opportunities to accelerate corporate innovation and the development of truly disruptive innovative products abound.
About the Role
As the Lead Product Manager, you will be focused on leading the product development and on delivering value to Motion platform customers and our network of 3rd party developers, working in a cross-functional team with colleagues in design, development, and QA. You will understand user behavior, analyze data, identify trends, craft strategies, lead cross-functional programs, measure impact, and drive wide-scale product implementation and rollout. You will collaborate closely with technology partners, UX designers, engineers, data scientists, analysts, machine learning experts, marketers and other cross-functional team members within the organization to ensure that our products amaze and delight our users. Working from our Paris office, you’ll collaborate with designers and engineers to build new features and products for the Motion Platform and ecosystem.
Responsibilities Will Include
- Leading our global product management team
- Responsible for project development from concept through testing and initial manufacturing.
- Own the product roadmap, prioritization, value proposition, and product development lifecycle .
- Attend industry conferences, build relationships with third party software vendors and be the go-to person for all financial planning needs – internally and externally
- Working with internal stakeholders to devise a forward-looking product strategy for a dedicated product area. Build, drive and manage a product roadmap against that strategy.
- Identify the business case for new products and features as well as enhancement of existing ones through analytics, customer interaction and feedback from internal stakeholders
- Collaborate with design team to crate prototypes and user interface mockups illustrating user experience and product flows
- Write clear and concise product specs, features cards, and other product documentation.
- Guide and work closely with engineering teams throughout the development process to verify all products comply with guidelines and specifications
- Owning delivery of product initiatives and releases
- Defining, documenting, and communicating objectives, requirements and constraints for product initiatives and releases
- Communicate development status to other stakeholders and document progress toward milestones
- Facilitate communication between client stakeholders and development team members
- Communicate the product to the necessary audiences within the company, partners, at tech conferences and events.
- Willingness to travel 30%
Requirements For Position
- A bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, computer science or related field is required; a graduate degree is preferred.
- A minimum of five years of relevant and progressive experience in client service or product management.
- Experience leading a product management organization within a start-up or B2B organization
- You have a track record of growth and success in your past work experiences
- An entrepreneurial work style - you're a self-starter
- Strong sense for customer and user experience
- Ability to create product vision’ based on market dynamics and understanding of market forces to shape the product roadmap and keeping it ahead of competition curve
- Knowledge and experience with Agile development, and good technical acumen are plus.
- Experience in planning and executing product releases
- Ability to work well with designers and engineers
- An analytical and metrics-driven work style and excellent organizational skills
- Impeccable interpersonal and communication abilities
- Comfort working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
- Passion for digital platforms, artificial intelligence, e-commerce and new technology
- You have experience working with the common product management frameworks and concepts: agile, scrum, lean, MVP, user story, backlog, etc.
- Experience in product management for complex software systems, data analytics, and/or machine learning products
- You can manage the details without letting them overwhelm. You never lose sight of the big picture. You prioritize tasks and focus appropriately.
- Background in artificial intelligence, security, and/or data science is a big plus
- You do the right thing, and you treat others with respect.
Lead Product Manager must be fluent in French and English (able to lead and manage local and global teams and communicate in English with virtual teams from different locations).
Compensation:
This is a paid compensation package position commensurate with experience.
👀 Psst... we are giving you a trick: stand out when you apply by attaching to your resume a pitch, prez, link to a intro video, or other original content of your choice suggesting your ideas for the position or your past achievements. The goal is to discover you more!
Please apply via the job portal or send your CV / Resume along with a cover letter to talent (Code LPDM).
** LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY - NO VISA SPONSORING **
About Us:
Motion ! is an early-stage technology start-up company based in Paris, France and New York City, U.S. Our vision is to build a smart innovation ecosystem that allows innovators, consumers, and businesses to do all aspects of business online. We at Motion are on a mission to make the world a more innovative and prosperous place, one community, one ecosystem at a time. |