Global Product Manager (f/m/x) - WILL
Tablets / Displays Global

Company:

Our client is the European subsidiary of an international company with more than 1.200 employees worldwide and distribution partners in over 150 countries. It is the world leading manufacturer of interactive pen tablets and displays as well as of digital pens and solutions for saving and processing digital signatures. Millions of people worldwide use the wireless and battery free pressure sensitive digital pen technology to operate their smartphones, media tablets or desktop computers. The interface technology is offered as OEM solutions and as an integrated solution for strategic partners. We support our customer in the development of the European business, especially in the field of consumer products. The position is based in the greater Düsseldorf area.

The Position:

• Responsible for the development and management of ink Software Development Kit (SDK) roadmaps and SDK requirements based on market and technical trends related to digital pen input and ink implementation as well as our clients technology roadmap and business units' strategies
• Support the project's mission to become industry standard by defining the right set of ink SDK features and ink service SDKs to achieve the broad industry adoption of this ink framework standard, considering the impact on the pen technology products' sales
• End-to-End lifecycle responsibility entire ownership including planning and management of partners feature requests
• Provide input for key stakeholders (mainly R&D, engineering, business units' product planning departments and management) on market and technology trends and developments for strategy definition
• Coordination with R&D, HW and SW development/engineering to manage product features/specifications, time to release and development cost
• Collaborate with product management and marketing teams of other business units to define integration plans and integrated product value proposition
• Collaborate with Partner Relations Temas during relations management and provide required documentation for partner inquiry
• Plan marketing activities and events jointly with Technology Marketing team
• Support in buidling long term industry consortium approach

Your Profile:

• Bachelor degree on Marketing, Business Administration, Engineering, or related area or equivalent background and experience
• Experienced global product management professional (3-5 years in the IT industry) or SW development professional (3-5 years in the IT industry)
• Excellent communicator
• Creative thinker, out of box, interested in new technologies and IT trends
• Excellent technical understanding of hardware, system architecture and apllications
• Experienced in managing software development projects
• Ownership mindset
• Citizen of the world, interested to work with other cultures, sensitivity to cultural differences and able to facilitate them (team work with globally distributed development teams and high profile partners)
• Fluent in English language
• Frequent international travelling
• Strong negotiation and conflict management skills
• Achievement orientation
• Conceptual thinking
• Convincing others
• Relationship building
• Detail oriented

Your Opportunity:

• You are working in an innovative, international and multi-cultural environment within a consumer organization with an excellent market reputation
• A very rare, cutting edge infrastructure around the globe with an outstanding scientific network with a strong growth and therefore a long term perspective for you
• Perfect conditions for your future career in an expanding international company