RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Build and champion product strategies and vision throughout client engagements, as well as brief and inspire internal team members to deliver on that vision.
• Be a trusted partner for our clients, preparing executive level updates and materials that showcase the work of our teams, the product roadmap, and areas of opportunity and risk. 
• Evaluate competing product opportunities and prioritize and sequence an optimal roadmap.
• Develop and champion business cases for additional investment, and comfortably navigate discussions and questions at an executive audience level. 
• Serve as subject matter expert on the external digital product landscape, identifying opportunities for growth and optimization.
• Identity dependencies, efficiencies, and risks across multiple squads and external partners, and prioritize roadmaps to best navigate. 
• Define, collate, and approve high-level requirements, acceptance criteria and KPI’s that push product strategies forward and achieve key objectives.
• Monitor and identify end user and stakeholder needs, staying current to and responding to changes in industry trends and expectations.
• Continuously prepare recommendations to expand product base and vision - based on data and research-driven insight.
• Collaborate with and influence a variety of cross-functional teams and leaders, ranging from Apply Digital, our Clients, and their external vendors and partners.

REQUIREMENTS:

• You’ve built and integrated with platforms that enable digital experiences, with a minimum 10+ years of experience leading product or engineering teams with a focus on consumer digital experiences (web and mobile). 
• Experience with Cloud technologies, web content management, distributed systems, and the latest trends in digital experience management.
• You have proven yourself in a consultation role, through an Agency, Consultancy, or other Professional Services Firm where you were responsible for building and growing key relationships.
• You have several years of experience communicating and collaborating with Executive Stakeholders from across an organization.
• You are able to influence and negotiate with executive level stakeholders. 
• You have proven experience mentoring and leading other product managers and team members.
• You possess outstanding client management and communication abilities, coupled with a robust capacity to offer ongoing guidance and timely follow up.
• You are perceptive, a creative leader, and a problem solver.
• You are professional, confident, and able to understand which ideas will and which won’t work.
• It’s easy for you to break down complex problems into logical, digestible steps.
• Ambiguity doesn’t scare you, and you thrive on turning ambiguity and conflicting information into clarity in a fast-changing environment
• You can customize product management frameworks to help deconstruct some of the most complex user and business contexts.
• You have a portfolio of digital products that you have shipped, managed and operated, and are proud to share how it delivered value to end users.
• You are an expert in consumer digital trends and engagement. You know what separates a good mobile app experience from a great one, and where industry trends are going. 
• You’re good at techie speak and non-techie speak. You’ve collaborated in multidisciplinary teams, are able to convey technical concepts to non-technical people as well as turn business, UX, design requirements into technical specifications.

LIFE AT APPLY DIGITAL

• Flexibility - work where you work best
• Competitive benefits plan
• Generous paid time off - take the time you need to be balanced and energized
• A growing company means many opportunities for advancement - we like to promote from within!
• Regular team and company events (karaoke, escape rooms, axe throwing and more!)
• Training budgets, Days of Learning, company-wide training, Apply Library and our Hackathon for Good mean you have many different ways to learn and stretch yourself