Product Manager

Company Description

At Saatchi we believe in creating ideas that can live anywhere. And we believe that when we work as a team, nothing is impossible. We strive to bring out the best in each other and in ourselves and expect applicants to understand the value of close collaboration. We also believe that creating transformational work requires initiative, an entrepreneurial spirit and a bold commitment to achieving measurable results and business success for the Clients we service.

Saatchi & Saatchi currently maintains a hybrid work policy to work in-office three days per week and remotely the other two days each week.

As a Product Manager on the Saatchi Platform team, you will manage some of Toyota’s largest platform businesses, you will lead the highest priority projects and digital initiatives. You will orchestrate and drive client discussions, reviews, and approvals through the digital agile development process. You will craft and recommend new opportunities, offer solutions to complex problems, and help shape the direction of the client business toward growth, increased efficiency, and greater success.

You will articulate digital web and product vision, steward the prioritization of a project backlog, and work closely with the strategy, analytics, UI/experience design, production, and dev teams to successfully maintain and build new digital experiences. You will instill consistency across initiatives, high levels of agile best practices, and steer teams’ execution toward larger product visions and roadmaps. Finally, you will oversee Toyota’s digital production budget for platform executions and help manage scope of work.

• Manage the execution of select, high-priority enhancements to the digital web and product experiences through an agile development process, including: the creation of future vision roadmaps and documentation, briefing material for execution of projects (i.e. Epics and user stories), guidance on best practices and client business context for creative execution, considerations of how best to integrate individual work with other efforts, and coordination across internal and external stakeholder groups.
• Translate product strategy into a roadmap containing well-defined and prioritized user stories and features that will realize the product vision to assist the client in achieving core business goals and long-term advantages.
• Establish objective goals for the product with success and acceptance criteria using meaningful metrics, KPIs, and quantifiable business outcomes.
• Serve as a voice of the customer among the cross-functional team, always understanding and representing the customer needs.
• Develop solution hypotheses iteratively based on your and the team's experience and expertise, to guide product development; then validate that learning with user testing.
• Be the first point of contact to identify, manage and resolve requirement questions, dependencies, issues and risks with technical partners and client.
• Manage delivery and fidelity of execution from annotations translation with technical partners through to UAT of product launch.
• Manage and help define the ideal architecture for content management and long-term feasible maintenance of a product after product launch.
• Orchestrate internal and external discussions designed to foster collaboration across stakeholders.
• Oversee and direct scope & resource planning and monitoring to execute the roadmap of projects while fulfilling client business priorities.
• Identify opportunities for internal and client-facing growth, via new project/feature ideation, crafting roadmaps cognizant of future business considerations, and presenting solutions to current or potential issues within the internal and client landscape.
• Inform and enhance internal workflows to maximize team performance. Understand how the details roll up to the big picture. Forecast next steps to meet major milestones and overcome roadblocks.
• Ensure involvement of appropriate team members during each project phase. Drive team communication and foster collaboration to avoid roadblocks.
• Identify shifts in timing, deliverables, and resources while communicating…