Job Overview
- Experience Level
- +12 years
- Employment Type
- Full-time
- Workplace Type
- Not specified
- Location
- Not specified
- Job function
- IT & Tech
- Application Deadline
- 24 September 2024
About the Role
Envision Employment Solutions is currently on the look for a Chief Product Officer [CPO] for one of our partners, a very well-known Company.
Job Summary:
Our Partner is on the look for a CPO that creates the overarching product roadmap and defines the strategic vision for the team driven by the overall vision. S/he has a deep understanding of B2B and B2C e-commerce Sales and builds close relationships with key stakeholders to ensure that the team’s effort is aligned with the overall strategy. S/he manages dependencies with other team’s functions while identifying, building and managing strategic partnerships across the different teams. The CPO works closely with the product team to ensure business value and user feedback is translated into new developments when necessary. As CPO S/he will be accountable for specific business KPIs based on the specific areas of the product. S/he has experience in leading cross-disciplinary teams as well as establishing a safe, collaborative, growth-focused, purposeful, values-driven, and diverse company culture across all organizational levels.
Responsibilities:
- Sets ambitious and clear product vision and communicates it effectively to stakeholders, the team, and the rest of the leadership - Derives an actionable product feature roadmap to foster the key strength of the e-commerce products - Is responsible for the end to end team output strategy from inception to production - Collaborates with stakeholders to ensure digital vision and products align within team strategy and requirements - Is accountable for specific KPIs once solution enters production - Utilizes state of the art market and industry knowledge to translate user needs into user stories and acceptance criteria for the development teams - Maintains and proactively develops a backlog 3 to 4 sprints ahead of the team - Works closely with all domains to establish each product’s business value and support messaging, communication and customer outreach as necessary - Facilitates release planning with stakeholders as well as bi-weekly demos - Integrates usability studies and research into product requirements to enhance user satisfaction and ensure customer driven design - Aligns outward facing product requirements and stakeholders - Stays connected with external sources of ideas through conferences and community engagements - Drives a growth/user marketing strategy and implementation with the relevant product managers - Leverages data strategy to measure usage in various ways that enables customer success, in product activation and monetization - Ensures that the product discovery as well as prioritization process is articulated clear, correct and reproducible - Shares responsibility to attract, recruit and retain tech talents to quickly grow the product/design team across all squads
Requirements
Requirements:
- Is seen as an expert within the field of product development and product design - Has at least 12 years of experience as product lead/CPO with a track record of working within high paced environments - Has proven knowledge of standard concepts, practices, and procedures – expertise within the Egyptian market is a big plus - Acts as strong collaborator with cross-functional teams from tech, design, and business - Has significant experience with building and developing a B2B and B2C e-commerce platform - Has proven track record of successfully growing and developing product/design teams that deliver software - Has experience driving and implementing an overarching growth and data strategy (i.e., data based decision making) - Is experienced in facilitating agile ceremonies, managing a backlog/release plan, tracking team level metrics, removing blockers (burn-down chart, release burn up, etc.) - Has deep experience in leading different teams within an agile environment - Has strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to deliver complex messages, explain trade-offs, and tell a compelling story – also for corporate stakeholders - Has experience in operating in diverse and international settings and strong network within the Egyptian tech ecosystem preferable - Is an active coach and mentor whose goals are to grow and maximize the team’s potential - Acts as proactive problem solver that leads and inspires the team to deliver and push boundaries - Is acutely aware of, curious about, and able to leverage the benefits and potential of teams’ cultural differences and diverse backgrounds - High level of empathy and emotional intelligence, acting as a values champion in the team - Acts as customer ambassador within the company and tries to constantly maximize the customer satisfaction- - Fosters a sense of belonging and trust-based relationship with the team - Inspires and encourages teams and individuals to expand and realize their potential - Challenges the status quo with genuine curiosity - Leads with integrity, compassion, decisiveness, and a positive outlook towards the future