Senior Product Lead
Kalamazoo - Downtown Portage Street
Zoetis
Zoetis is the largest global animal health company committed to nurturing the world and humankind by advancing care for animals. Learn more.Role Description
Position Summary:
The role of a Precision Animal Health (PAH) Senior Product Lead is to manage and scale B2C, digital, D2C/e-commerce products. The successful candidate will have significant experience related to consumer products with a strong emphasis to animal health experience. The position requires scaling teams in a hyper growth and revenue acceleration period. Customers should be your focus while utilizing the power of technology to improve and drive animal health caregivers lives and operations. The successful candidate will be comfortable in defining long-term product vision while being able to manage tactile technical discussions with a matrixed organization. This position will help drive that product vision through strategy, design, data and system management.
Position Resonsibilities:
Oversee every step of the product development lifecycle across functional areas of the product suite across their team (Growth, Design, Product Analytics, Engagement/Accounts, and Scalability). That includes product ideation, strategic planning, tactical initiatives, product vision, product strategy, consumer research and insights, product roadmap, product design, product development, new initiative development, management of day-to-day software lifecycle, and product GTM.
Responsible for the strategic input at all parts of the process, with senior strategic decisions escalated to this level and team members empowered to own decisions within their functional areas
Responsible for the roadmap and strategic vision for how our product suite can evolve to hit larger revenue goals and strategic objectives
Responsible for (or mentors Product team members on) clearly defining product requirements and creating associated documentation, including business case and rationale, success metrics, acceptance criteria, testing requirements, exit/release planning, and GTM support
Responsible for the Data and Analytics team, tracking post-release success metrics and maintaining detailed, documented product backlogs, feature specifications, and technical documents, while translating backlog priorities to strategic roadmaps across the entire product suite.
Organizational Relationship
This position requires communication directly with marketing, lab operations, engineering, R&D and other cross-functional stakeholders.
Supervision
6
Education and Experience
- 10+ years of experience in Consumer Technology Product Development (Product Management, Product Marketing, General Manager, Software Development and/or Management Consulting) at a B2C or D2C consumer technology company, or 12+ years of professional experience plus advanced degree
Significant experience leading and working with Technical Engineering, Data Science, Product Design, and Product Analytics teams
Depth of experience building (and developing junior Product team members on) strategic product roadmaps, testing plans and experiment roadmaps, to learn about optimization opportunities across the product lifecycle / digital ecosystem
Demonstrated experience owning full P&L responsibility
Past experience building and scaling out organizational development strategies
Deep understanding of emerging technologies in consumer products
Expert in prioritization for ambiguous objectives in complex technical environments
Technical Requirements
Excellent written and oral communication skills to interact effectively with customers (internal and external).
Experience with data integration and management.
Expert in analytical methods (SQL, Excel required (or proficiency to ramp rapidly) - Python preferred), mentors team and cross-functional partners on best practices for interpreting data and qualitative research, and distilling into actionable takeaways
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Zoetis will consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume to have been referred by the Agency free of any charges or fees. This includes any Agency that is an approved/engaged vendor but does not have the appropriate approvals to be engaged on a search.
Zoetis is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status or any other protected classification. Disabled individuals are given an equal opportunity to use our online application system. We offer reasonable accommodations as an alternative if requested by an individual with a disability. Please contact Zoetis Colleague Services at zoetiscolleagueservices@zoetis.com to request an accommodation. Zoetis also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act. All applicants must possess or obtain authorization to work in the US for Zoetis. Zoetis retains sole and exclusive discretion to pursue sponsorship for the acquisition or maintenance of nonimmigrant status and employment eligibility, considering factors such as availability of qualified US workers. Individuals requiring sponsorship must disclose this fact. Please note that Zoetis seeks information related to job applications from candidates for jobs in the U.S. solely via the following: (1) our company website at www.Zoetis.com/careers site, or (2) via email to/from addresses using only the Zoetis domain of “@zoetis.com”. In addition, Zoetis does not use Google Hangout for any recruitment related activities. Any solicitation or request for information related to job applications with Zoetis via any other means and/or utilizing email addresses with any other domain should be disregarded. In addition, Zoetis will never ask candidates to make any type of personal financial investment related to gaining employment with Zoetis.* Salary range is an estimate based on our AI, ML, Data Science Salary Index 💰
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