Senior Technical Product Manager
Description
At Bayer we’re visionaries, driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges and striving for a world where 'Health for all Hunger for none’ is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We’re doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining ‘impossible’. There are so many reasons to join us. If you’re hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there’s only one choice.
Senior Technical Product Manager
YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
As Bayer Crop Science's digital farming arm, we advance regenerative agriculture and technology breakthroughs using the latest agronomic science, data science, engineering, and real-world farming experience. With groundbreaking technologies like Climate FieldView and our ForGround regenerative agriculture platform, our team is a part of some of the most important advancements in agriculture.
We are seeking a Senior Technical Product Manager to lead product management for two Platform Services teams (a.k.a. our core infrastructure teams). As a Senior Technical Product Manager, you will drive the innovation and evolution of our cloud and infrastructure products that ultimately enable farmers around the world to obtain and utilize our digital tools. The ideal candidate brings a strong technical background in cloud technologies and infrastructure, combined with exceptional product management and leadership skills. This candidate will be responsible for defining product strategy, managing the product lifecycle, and ensuring our cloud infrastructure solutions meet the evolving needs of our organization and customers by transforming and professionalizing our internal systems as products.
- Product Strategy and Vision: Develop and articulate a clear vision and strategy for our cloud infrastructure products, aligning with the company's overall strategic goals.
- Product-Focused Infrastructure: Embody and promote a product-focused approach to infrastructure by guiding the team to view infrastructure through the lens of product development. This involves prioritizing user experience, reliability, and feature development within infrastructure projects to ensure infrastructure support and enhance organizational goals.
- Roadmap Development: Create and maintain a product roadmap that balances short-term deliverables with long-term vision, ensuring stakeholder alignment and managing expectations.
- Customer and Market Insights: Gather and analyze feedback from customers and the market to identify opportunities for product improvements and new features that enhance our competitive edge.
- Cross-functional Leadership: Collaborate with the engineering, operations, and product teams to ensure successful product development, launch, and internal go-to-market strategies.
- Feature Prioritization: Prioritize product features and capabilities based on customer needs, business value, and technical feasibility within the ICE framework.
- Performance Metrics: Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for cloud infrastructure products, using data to drive decisions and measure success.
- Mentorship: Lead and mentor infrastructure engineers to adopt a product-focused mindset by fostering a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and cross-functional collaboration to empower engineers to take ownership and drive initiatives that align with strategic objectives.
WHO YOU ARE
Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:
Required qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field with 7+ years of experience in product management with a focus on cloud infrastructure, platform services, or related technologies.
- Advanced technical acumen, with a deep understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), infrastructure as code (IAC), and modern DevOps practices.
- Proven track record managing all aspects of a successful product lifecycle.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and senior executives.
- Demonstrated experience using data analysis and metrics to inform product decisions
Preferred qualifications
- AWS certification (Associate level and above)
- Previous experience managing infrastructure teams
- Experience with AWS multi-account strategy and the AWS Well-Architected Framework
- Experience with the Scaled Agile framework
- Experience with Observability tools (Datadog, etc.)
WHAT WE OFFER
Base salary estimated range between [$121,557 – $220,339] annually, depending on the hiring location. You may also be offered bonuses, RSUs cash equivalent, or commission.
- Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability, as well as a Life Solutions Plan covering mental health benefits
- Industry leading 401K match of up to 10%
- Discounted access to Employee Share Purchase Plan program
- Professional growth opportunities including up to $10,000 college tuition reimbursement, access to upskilling platform, leadership training, mentoring and coaching programs, and short-term assignments (domestic and international)
YOUR APPLICATION
At Bayer, we strive to build inclusive experiences for candidates and employees alike in which a diverse set of perspectives and voices are represented. If this role sounds exciting to you but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with the job description, we still encourage you to apply.
This posting will be available for application until at least November 5.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. This means we actively pursue ways to celebrate our differences and don’t discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, sex (including pregnancy), protected veteran status, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or any unlawful criterion existing under applicable federal, state, or local laws.
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