Lead, Cloud Platform Product Management
Company: BioSpace, Inc.
Location: Cambridge
Posted on: May 28, 2023
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Job Description
Description:
The Takeda Enterprise Cloud platform is also a complex product
line, offering enabling and self-service capabilities to its
consumers. Product Line Management is the function responsible for
defining the desirable, viable, feasible, and sustainable solutions
to meet platform consumer needs while supporting ongoing
development across the product life cycle.
This role has primary accountability for leading demand-based
platform roadmap development including product line strategy and
planning - as well as working with a team to orchestrate the
development, testing, and release of new, enhanced, and changed
products within the "Product Line" to meet demand. Product line
management for the platform operates a quarterly planning cycle
based on the principles of the Scaled Agile Framework.
Key Responsibilities:
- Understand DD&T business goals and strategies, existing
Cloud Platform capabilities, enterprise DD&T strategy, and
available DD&T products and/or services.
- Understand platform end-user needs and behaviors.
- Understand, anticipate, and influence demand for DD&T
products and services. Key interactions:
- Align on Outcomes: Work directly with business owners and
platform customers to define outcomes and prioritize based on
value, cost of delay, and other factors.
- Evolve the solution: Work directly with product owners and the
development teams to orchestrate delivery of the right value to the
business in quarterly planning increments
- Steer the Agile Release Train (ART): work with the RTE's and
System Architects to orchestrate delivery and make appropriate
tradeoff decisions during PI execution
- Inspect and Adapt: Continuously improve the planning and
development process in concert with the overall team Product Line
Strategy & Planning:
- Lead generation, capture, and screening of Cloud Platform
innovation ideas.
- Guide product line development teams on definition of what
Cloud Platform enhancements, or new products, to offer customers
based on their goals, needs, and strategies.
- Coach product teams and customers through analysis and
prioritization of innovation ideas, new product concepts/pilots,
product
changes/enhancements (e.g., Investment Portfolios, Product
Roadmaps). Product Line Architecture:
- Work closely with the Platform Architecture & Engineering
leader and with Demand Management to:
- Ensure Platform Managers/Product Owners understand DD&T
goals, strategies, and value streams
- Make sure Platform Consumers understand existing and future
Cloud Platform products and services capabilities, and prioritize
use of existing or planned capabilities over unplanned
capabilities
- Ensure platform architecture and engineering teams design
and/or assemble the right or most valuable features and functions
in quarterly Program Increments to meet customer needs when
defining product architectures. Product Line Leadership:
- Manage relationship between platform team, and BU/BF consumers
along with Demand Managers
- Work with a group of Release Train Engineers and Scrum Masters
to orchestrate and monitor the delivery of committed quarterly
value across one or more Agile Release Trains (ARTs)
- Make sure product teams use approved GDT tools and methods to
plan and coordinate technical product and/or service design,
development, testing, deployments, and releases for all Cloud
Platform products
- Confirm product teams consider and improve, the customer/user
experience when designing and releasing new, enhance, or changed
products in the cloud product line
- Along with Platform Architecture & Engineering, plan and
oversee testing, prototyping, and/or incubation of advanced
technologies within the Cloud Product Line
- Ensure teams plan and manage releases of new, enhanced, or
changed products and/or services that meet customer and end-user
needs
- Ensure appropriate feedback loops, customer satisfaction
surveys, and service awareness / adoption strategies are in place
Critical Knowledge and Skills:
- Customer Relationship Management
- General knowledge of GDT Shared Platforms and Standards
- Excellent presentation and communication skills
- Scaled Agile Framework 5/6 certification (PO/PM)
- Cloud (AWS) certification demonstrating technical domain
knowledge in relevant IaaS and PaaS services
- Strong demonstrated ability to leverage Jira, Confluence and
similar tools in product line planning as well as quarterly
execution
- Ability to guide demand intake to outcomes-based
discussions
- Capability to lead quarterly PI Planning
- Ability to manage a team of RTEs and Scrum Masters through
influence as well as positional authority
- Developing & Implementing Strategies
- Directing & Influencing Others
- Agile SDLC, preferably the Takeda Agile SDLC, and DevSecOps
Tools & Methodologies such as CI/CD
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sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression,
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Locations
Cambridge, MA
CHE - Switzerland Remote
Worker Type
Employee
Worker Sub-Type
Regular
Time Type
Full time
Keywords: BioSpace, Inc., Cambridge , Lead, Cloud Platform Product Management, Executive , Cambridge, Massachusetts
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