Product Manager - Product Stewardship

Job Description

• 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

• Understand product vision for the organization and Product Stewardship and evangelize to teams
• Build product roadmaps that contribute to Product Stewardship's vision
• Prioritize features and functionality for releases based on market and launch approach
• Write epics and users stories for roadmap projects
• Collaborate with internal teams - development, design, marketing, sales to build and launch products and functionality
• Talk with customers regularly to understand their problems

• Knowledge of Product Stewardship space and market, chemical data and SDSs. Any experience in SDS authoring or regulatory analysis is a plus.
• Facilitation skills – ability to lead small to medium groups of internal and external stakeholders towards desired outcomes in order to meet business objectives
• Interview skills – 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 communication and presentation (PowerPoint) skills
• Product management tools – development task management (e.g. Jira, Azure Dev Ops), documentation and knowledge (e.g. Confluence, SharePoint), collaboration (e.g. Microsoft Teams), roadmap and portfolio management (e.g. Aha!, Miro)
• Formal training and/or certification in Product Management is a plus
• University Degree (Equivalent to Bachelor's degree) in Computer Science, Business, or a related discipline
• 2+ years or more of related discipline experience or demonstrated competency
• Working with remote teams is highly preferred
• Project management certification is a plus

UL Solutions has been pioneering change since 1894 and we’re still leading the way. From day one, we’ve blazed a trail protecting the planet and everyone on it. Our teams have influenced billions of products, plus services, software offerings and more. We break things, burn things and blow things up. All in the name of safety science. That’s where you come in — because none of it could happen without you.

It takes passion to protect people, problem‑solving to safeguard personal data and conviction to make the world a more sustainable place. It takes bold ideas and brilliant minds to build a better world for future generations across the globe. This is more than a job. It’s a calling. A passion to use our expertise and play our part in creating a more secure, sustainable world today — and tomorrow.

As a member of our safety science community, you’ll use your ideas, your energy and your ambition to innovate, challenge and ultimately, help create a…