HICX is a leading worldwide provider of enterprise SaaS solutions for digital supplier management. Learn more about HICX
This is a highly visible role within the organization with direct interactions with executive leadership to conceptualize, prioritize and deliver the companies north star roadmap.
The Product team is currently looking for a highly skilled individual to grow with the organization, managing stakeholders across verticals and setting up the right priorities for delivering on both short- and long-term initiatives.
Reporting directly to the VP of Product Management, the Director of Product will own a HICX product line and define the solution that will enable HICX to best serve new and existing customers by creating best-in-class solutions.
Position Overview
- Define and own the long-term product vision.
- Develop a product strategy, build and own the roadmap and prioritize accordingly.
- Own the end-to-end processes related to product discovery, from identifying problems and opportunities, to defining solutions that will be delivered to HICX customers.
- Hire, onboard and mentor great product managers and product designers to build a world-class team.
- Communicate with customers and stakeholders to gather requirements and understand their needs.
- Make the tough decisions about what HICX will and will not do, balancing long-term product vision with short term commercial pressures. Justify this with clear analysis.
- Continuously drive process development: improvement in ideation, conceptualization, implementation, and qualification of new features.
- Create, maintain, and prioritize product development phasing and backlog, including requirement grooming, and making verbal and written recommendations to management.
- Define best working practices with engineering, quality, product delivery teams.
- Support sales, pre-sales, account management and customer success winning new and retain existing customer accounts.
- Support internal teams improving the onboarding experience for new customer accounts.
- Proactively research and identify technology trends that may be advantageous to the realization and continued adoption of HICX’s product offering globally.
- Look beyond where the market is today and ensure that the company maintains a competitive advantage.
Requirements
- 6+ years in a product management or solution architect leadership role for a B2B SaaS-related solution.
- The candidate needs to have proven experience in delivering through agile methodologies in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience in managing large, complex programs/projects that have a significant impact.
- An ideal candidate
- has expert level understanding of supply chain and procurement processes.
- understands the intricacies of master data management and governance.
- has a knowledge about supplier risk management, ESG, supplier performance management.
- Has a good understanding of technologies and is not afraid or shy’s away from learning new technologies.
- Understanding of the SaaS product management process with hands-on experience of creating and managing the product backlog, working with technical teams to prioritize and deliver features.
- Is obsessed with modern UI and UX practices.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to build strong cross-functional relationships, internally and externally.
- The ability to take customer needs and translate them to solution requirements that can be used by product teams for development is required.
- Work with the development team on User Interface (UI) design/validation, sprint reviews, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Proven ability to execute an end-to-end solution lifecycle.
Benefits
- Work from anywhere in Poland - we are a fully remote company.
- Flexible PTO - We offer 25 days of paid holiday per year + 3 Public Holidays.
- Connect and socialize with the team during our company socials and off-site events.
- We celebrate special occasions with you - like your birthday! Additional PTO for all employees during their birthdays.
- Receive Competitive Pay - Our team makes sure to provide a highly competitive rate based on your skills and location.
- Work with a diverse, international team.
- Tons of amazing career opportunities in a fast-growing in-demand industry.
