UL

Product Manager

UL$123K — $165K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • University Degree in Computer Science, Business, or related field
  • 5+ years of relevant experience
  • Deep knowledge of Conformity Assessment schemes and testing practices
  • Familiarity with Global Market Access processes
  • Experience with remote team collaboration preferred
  • Experience using product management tools like Jira and Confluence
  • Strong communication and presentation skills

Responsibilities

  • Utilize market understanding to shape product strategy
  • Analyze market needs against UL's unique capabilities
  • Contribute to go-to-market strategy outlining customer value delivery
  • Prioritize features into a clear product roadmap
  • Monitor product goals and metrics for continuous evaluation
  • Communicate product vision and goals both internally and externally
  • Promote desired behaviors that align with the company's work culture

Benefits

  • Health benefits including medical, dental, and vision
  • Wellness benefits focusing on mental and financial health
  • 401K retirement savings plan
  • Paid time off with vacation (15 days), holidays (12 days), and sick leave (72 hours)
  • Eligible for annual bonus compensation targeting 20% of base salary
Full Job Description
Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Use the previously established product vision in concert with deep market understanding to inform the product strategy
  • Evaluate market needs against UL's and competitors' unique abilities to address them
  • Support and contribute to a go-to-market strategy, describing how value will be delivered to the customer/user, how the product is differentiated from the competition, and what the business model should be
  • Prioritize product functions and features into a product roadmap
  • Monitor a set of product goals, outcomes and corresponding metrics to continually evaluate against
  • Evangelize and communicate the product vision, strategy and goals internally across the organization, as well as externally with client users
  • Actively model and promote a set of desired behaviors aligned with UL's WoW
  • Take ownership of own career and professional development by documenting and communicating career aspirations and any associated development needs to their manager
  • Support career development needs of direct reports, by clearly defining expectations for their current role, actively soliciting their career aspirations and helping close any gaps
  • Support an efficient cross-functional matrix structure to enable effective product development lifecycle
  • Execute a robust set of processes to power all parts of the product development lifecycle from research/discovery to release management and product support
  • Leverage a standard set of product management tools to be used across the product organization at each of the stages of the lifecycle


Qualifications

  • University Degree (Equivalent to Bachelor's degree) in Computer Science, Business, or a related discipline
  • 5 years or more of related discipline experience or demonstrated competency
  • Knowledge of how Conformity Assessment schemes influence and affect product go-to-market
  • Significant knowledge of Conformity Assessment testing practices and processes
  • Understanding of Global Market Access processes and practices
  • Experience working with remote and globally distributed teams is highly preferred
  • Project and/or Product management certification is a plus
  • Ability to lead small to medium groups of internal and external stakeholders towards desired outcomes in order to meet business objectives
  • Ability to conduct discovery sessions with clients. prospects and stakeholders in order to diagnose business opportunities, elicit requirements and conduct other types of research
  • Strong and demonstrable communication and presentation skills
  • Product management tools - product design (e.g. Invision, Zeplin), development task management (e.g. Jira, Azure DevOps), documentation and knowledge (e.g. Confluence, SharePoint), collaboration (e.g. Microsoft Teams, Slack), roadmap and portfolio management (e.g. Aha!, Daptiv), AI tools
  • Formal training and/or certification in Product Management is a plus


Total Rewards: We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. The estimated salary range for this position is $123,800 to $165,000 and is based on multiple factors, including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, geographical location, as well as other factors. This position is eligible for annual bonus compensation with a target payout of 20% of the base salary. This position also provides health benefits such as medical, dental and vision; wellness benefits such as mental and financial health; and retirement savings (401K) commensurate with the standard rewards offered in each individual location or country. We also provide full-time employees with paid time off including vacation (15 days), holiday including floating holidays (12 days) and sick time off (72 hours).

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About UL

UL is a global safety certification company headquartered in Northbrook, Illinois. It was founded in 1894 and has been providing safety testing, inspection, and certification services for over 125 years. UL operates in over 100 countries and has more than 14,000 employees worldwide. The company's mission is to promote safe living and working environments by advancing safety science. UL's services cover a wide range of industries, including consumer products, industrial equipment, building materials, and more.
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