Senior Lead - Forecasting and Planning Product Manager (Technology)

As a Senior Lead Product Manager within the Planning team, you will be instrumental in defining how we build the future. Your focus will be on establishing clear processes, fostering collaboration, and ensuring our technology roadmap aligns seamlessly with On's overarching business objectives. Working closely with stakeholders and functional leaders, you will cultivate a deep understanding of our strategic priorities and translate them into actionable plans for our technology teams.

• Establish Planning Excellence: Contribute significantly to defining and implementing best-in-class product planning processes across technology teams, ensuring clarity, alignment, and efficiency.
• Drive Strategic Alignment: Deeply understand On's business strategy and translate it into a cohesive and prioritized technology roadmap, ensuring all initiatives contribute to key objectives.
• Empower with Insights: Discover stakeholder needs and challenges related to product planning, leveraging data and insights to inform strategic decisions and identify opportunities for improvement in our planning methodologies.
• Facilitate Effective Prioritization: Champion a robust prioritization framework, ensuring we focus on the initiatives that will deliver the most significant impact and align with our strategic goals.
• Foster Collaboration: Be a central point of collaboration, working closely with Product Managers, Engineering Leads, and functional stakeholders to ensure seamless communication and alignment throughout the planning lifecycle.
• Define and Track Success: Establish clear metrics and key results specifically focused on the effectiveness of our planning processes, working with Technology leaders to track progress and identify areas for optimization.
• Promote Transparency: Advocate for clear and transparent communication of our product plans and roadmaps across the organization.

• Planning Focused Experience: You bring 5+ years of hands-on product management experience in a tech-driven environment, with a demonstrable focus on and passion for effective product planning methodologies and strategic roadmap development.
• Platform Mindset: You have experience building and scaling platform solutions using cloud-based technologies, understanding the importance of a well-defined and communicated platform strategy.
• API and Data Acumen: You understand the role of APIs and data in enabling effective planning and decision-making, and can communicate their value to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Data models and Data Science: You have hands-on experience experimenting with data science models to support forecasting scenarios and/or you are well versed on technical details to have detailed conversations with the data science teams to enable models.
• Agile Planning Expertise: You possess a deep understanding and appreciation of agile methodologies and how they integrate with effective product planning, enabling you to translate business needs into flexible and adaptable plans.
• Strategic Communicator: You excel at connecting strategic objectives with tactical plans using data and insights, and you have the ability to clearly communicate the "why" behind our roadmap to your team and stakeholders.
• Exceptional Leadership and Collaboration: Your exceptional communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills enable you to build strong cross-functional relationships and effectively lead and influence without direct authority. You are passionate about fostering a collaborative and transparent planning environment.