Senior Manager, Product and Engineering Operations
Description
Senior Manager, Product & Engineering Operations
Castlight is seeking an experienced Senior Manager of Product & Engineering Operations to join our R&D Operations team. This role will work closely with the Product and Engineering organizations to help impactful products be built efficiently and effectively, drive collaboration around the product within R&D and relevant stakeholders, and drive improvements to the teams’ operations and key processes.
Responsibilities:
- Own the core operational processes of the Product and Engineering teams
- Partner with R&D leadership to define the annual product roadmap and manage processes to keep the roadmap current and relevant teams informed
- Manage the product development lifecycle, including quarterly roadmap planning
- Support Product and Engineering teams in executing our product strategy and driving complex cross-functional initiatives
- Take a data-driven approach to product planning and track success of new product features by measuring against KPIs and report progress to executive leadership team
- Define a framework to enable the prioritization of product roadmap objectives and projects across a number of product teams
- Implement a robust experimentation and rollout strategy for product/feature launches
- Identify improvements to how teams operate cross-functionally; design robust and nimble processes to increase efficiency
- Evaluate and select a product roadmapping tool; manage the implementation of the tool
- Become a trusted partner for our Product and Engineering teams
- Lead and develop the Product Operations team
Qualifications:
- 5+ years’ experience in product operations, program management, product management, or other relevant, transferrable role
- Experience working in high-performing product teams, with a focus on cross-functional collaboration, experimentation, and outcomes over output
- Prior experience rolling out complex products and process changes to internal teams
- Ability to be an influential member of a highly integrated team composed of both technical and non-technical members
- Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong organizational and program management skills
- Ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities
- Knowledgeable in Mixpanel and Tableau
- Demonstrated understanding of Scaled Agile or similar framework
- Advanced JIRA and Confluence knowledge
- Experience with a digital health organization is strongly preferred
- High-growth startup experience is preferred