Executive Director, Product Management (Engineering Workbench)

About us: Accuris, a company long-known for accelerating innovation in engineering workflows and supporting the vibrancy of the engineering community, launched in May 2023 as a standalone company. Accuris was formerly known as S&P Global’s Engineering Solutions division. The Company is valued for its standards content and workflow solutions like Engineering Workbench, Goldfire, Haystack and Parts Management Solutions.

Under its previous owners, including S&P Global, IHS and IHS Markit, Accuris has been an integral part of the engineering ecosystem for more than 60 years.

The Role: Executive Director, Product Management (Engineering Workbench)

The Team: Our product teams are passionate about delivering compelling solutions to address our customers’ most pressing challenges, empowering them to transform the future. As product management professionals, we put customers at the center, practice rapid learning, take full responsibility from product definition through customer success, and deliver healthy profit to the business.

The Role:

As Executive Director, you will be responsible for product strategy, product maintenance and innovation, and go-to-market. This position is responsible for driving profitable revenue growth through extensive understanding of market needs and requirements to solve customer problems. In doing so, this position interfaces greatly with clients, as well as internal stakeholders including sales, marketing, customer experience and software development, to deliver innovative solutions for the market.

Responsibilities: On a day-to-day basis, you’ll be working across various PM and cross-functional teams in carrying out the core responsibilities of your role.

• Strategic Leadership: Collaborate with key business stakeholders to develop and communicate a clear product and content strategy and roadmap for the Parts business and align it with the company’s overall goals and vision.
• Parts Product Portfolio Management: Oversee the portfolio of product solutions associated with the Parts business throughout their product life cycle. Manage all Parts products and content to ensures a balanced and competitive portfolio. Use data and analytics to drive decisions regarding new product and content development, enhancements and product discontinuations.
• Collaboration: Collaborate closely with key Parts business stakeholders, sales, development, content operations, marketing, and other relevant teams to ensure seamless execution of product initiatives, alignment with company goals and effective go-to-market strategies.
• Customer Focus: Engage with key customers to collect feedback and insights, ensuring that solutions meet our customer’s requirements and drive customer satisfaction.
• Revenue Growth: Collaborate with key business stakeholders on developing pricing strategies, sales enablement materials, marketing and promotional concepts to maximize revenue and market share.
• Lead the team responsible for gathering, understanding and articulating market requirements to support customer workflow problems. Responsible for product roadmap and prioritizing enhancements
• Develops development investment business cases for management approval
• Evolves the products through buy, build or partner strategies
• Shapes and leads customer discovery activities, including user groups plus deep analytics of usage data
  
  

What We’re Looking For: An individual inspired by our mission who is aligned with the values of our firm and brings the following skills and experience.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering is required, MBA or advanced degree is a plus.
• At least 15 years' experience in product management with at least 5 years in a leadership position.
• Industry experience in engineering preferred, 10 years in SaaS solution product management required.
• Exceptional leadership and team-building skills with a demonstrated ability to lead and inspire cross-functional teams.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to translate market insights into actionable plans.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Results-oriented with a strong focus on driving revenue and margins.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, dynamic, and evolving environment.
• Ability to articulate product positioning to both a business and technical audience
• Be curious and passionate with a strong desire to learn
  
  

This role is limited to persons with indefinite right to work in the United States.

Flexible Working (optional)

We pride ourselves on our agility and diversity, and we welcome requests to work flexibly. For most roles, flexible hours and/or an element of remote working are usually possible. Please talk to us at interview about the type of arrangement that is best for you. We will always try to be adaptable wherever we can. 

Grade/Level ( relevant for internal applicants only ): Executive Director.

The Location: USA - Remote

Compensation/Benefits Information (US Applicants Only):

Accuris states that the anticipated base salary range for this position is $180,000 - $210,000. Base salary ranges may vary by geographic location. In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for an annual incentive plan. This role is eligible to receive additional benefits. For more information on the benefits we provide to our employees, please reach out to the recruiter assigned to the role.

About Company Statement:

Accuris delivers essential intelligence that powers decision making. We provide the world’s leading organizations with the right data, connected technologies and expertise they need to move ahead. We think differently, combining the knowledge and resources of an established company with the unapologetic boldness of a startup. ( https://www.spglobal.com/engineering/en/index.html )

Our mission: build an evolvable knowledge and data platform that enables STEM professionals to unlock and deliver innovation to the world’s most complex problems.

Accuris provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

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