Product Manager

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Drive the vision and roadmap for internationalizing Anaplan’s platform, ensuring it meets accessibility requirements while collaborating with global teams.

At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market.

What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers’ success and to our Winning Culture.

Our customers rank among the who’s who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies who rely on our best-in-class platform.

Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, we behave like leaders regardless of title, we are committed to achieving ambitious goals, and we love celebrating our wins – big and small.

Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led, values-based and disciplined in execution, you’ll be inspired, connected, developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and let’s build what’s next - together!

Anaplan is looking for a passionate Product Manager to help drive the development of our platform to serve a global and diverse user base. This person will be instrumental in executing our product strategy to deliver applications across the globe in different languages that meet modern accessibility requirements. This is a data-driven and customer-oriented role for someone with a passion for creating inclusive and scalable solutions.

Your Impact

  • Work with the product team to define and drive the vision and roadmap for the Anaplan platform’s internationalization, localization, and accessibility capabilities.
  • Understand the nuances of global markets and diverse users. Be the voice of the customer for users with varying linguistic needs and abilities, ensuring the platform’s applications are usable and effective for all markets.
  • Define processes that support a global-first application framework, ensuring performance and scalability across different languages and regions that can be built by application teams.
  • Work with Product leadership, UX, Engineering, and local GTM teams on roadmap to deliver a truly global product.
  • Drive end-to-end experiences: writing user stories with clear acceptance criteria for internationalization and accessibility (WCAG), configurability for varying regions, and working with engineering and QA to deliver high-quality, compliant experiences.
  • Analyze user data to identify patterns, pain points, and opportunities for improvement in our global and accessible feature sets for out.
  • Create enablement material, including technical documentation and support guides, for our global features and accessibility compliance.
  • Effectively collaborate across global teams to create alignment between engineering teams and other product stakeholders.
  • Meet with customers, users, prospects, and partners to communicate Anaplan’s product vision for a global and accessible platform of applications.

Required Skills

  • Proven experience working as a Product Manager in a technology-driven environment, preferably with experience in SaaS or enterprise software.
  • Experience in building or working with complex data models where changes can have repelling effects.
  • Experience with internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) of software products, and a strong understanding of the challenges of delivering a single product to a global audience.
  • Strong data modeling and data analysis skills, with the ability to use data to inform product strategy and decisions.
  • Experience working in an Agile development environment and familiarity with tools like Jira, Confluence, etc.
  • Experience in creating and managing product roadmaps that address technical and user-facing features.
  • Highly analytical and able to troubleshoot complex issues related to data, language, and accessibility; candidates should be able to go from high-level strategy to low-level detail very easily.
  • A passion for building inclusive products that can be used by anyone, anywhere.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional and geographically distributed teams.
  • Team player with the ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced, quickly changing environment.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB)

We believe attracting and retaining the best talent and fostering an inclusive culture strengthens our business. DEIB improves our workforce, enhances trust with our partners and customers, and drives business success. Build your career in a place where diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging aren’t just words on paper – this is what drives our innovation, it’s how we connect, and it contributes to what makes us a market leader. We believe in a hiring and working environment where all people are respected and valued, regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes people unique. We hire you for who you are, and we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day! 

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive equitable benefits and all privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.  

Fraud Recruitment Disclaimer  

It has come to our attention that fraudulent and fictitious job opportunities are being circulated on the Internet. Prospective candidates are being contacted by certain individuals, mainly through telephone calls, emails and correspondence, claiming they are representatives of Anaplan. The main purpose of these correspondences and announcements is to obtain privileged information from individuals.  

Anaplan does not:  

  • Extend offers to candidates without an extensive interview process with a member of our recruitment team and a hiring manager via video or in person.   
  • Send job offers via email. All offers are first extended verbally by a member of our internal recruitment team whenever possible and then followed up via written communication.  

All emails from Anaplan would come from an @anaplan.com email address. Should you have any doubts about the authenticity of an email, letter or telephone communication purportedly from, for, or on behalf of Anaplan, please send an email to [email protected] before taking any further action in relation to the correspondence.   

 

Anaplan provides a connected planning platform for finance, supply chain, and sales strategies, enabling large organizations to make informed plans, drive effective decision-making, and transform planning processes.

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