Manager, Product Development

Posted:
8/23/2024, 3:34:57 PM

Location(s):
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States ⋅ Eagan, Minnesota, United States ⋅ Minnesota, United States

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Product

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

Manager, Product Development

The FindLaw Product Development Manager is responsible for leading and managing a group of high-performing Product Development and UX professionals. This manager and team’s primary responsibility is to work cross-functionally to support FindLaw’s existing legal consumer products; as well as bring new products and capabilities to market.

About the Role:

In this opportunity as Manager, Product Development, you will:

  • Lead two high-performing teams to achieve key business results while providing exceptional coaching, mentorship and support. 
  • Work with Technology Delivery Managers to coordinate and balance resources according to product roadmaps and timelines.
  • Assist with capital tracking, forecasting and reporting. Provide leadership with regular updates. 
  • Serve as a liaison between the product management, digital marketing and technology leaders to ensure projects are tracking to schedule
  • Champion new product development best practices and roadmap tools to enhance the current product development process.
  • Remove roadblocks for UX and Product Development teams so that they may be successful in their roles
  • Escalate any project issues or project timeline risks to leadership. 
  • Train and lead teams on Agile best practices and tools.
  • Implement and evangelize a consumer first UX design process

About You:

You’re a fit for the role of Manager, Product Development if your background includes

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, or a related field.
  • Minimum of 7 years of experience in a combination of the following: Product Development, Product Management, Project Management.
  • Experience with Development and UX tools such as Figma, Ado, and others.
  • Experience in product road-mapping and capital resource management.
  • Experience with project management for web based software development.
  • Familiarity with digital marketing concepts, channels, tools, and capabilities (SEO, PPC, etc.).
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple projects simultaneously.  
  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present ideas clearly and effectively. 
  • Experience bringing consumer digital products to market is preferred, but not required.

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What's in it For You?
You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

  • Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected

  • Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

  • Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

  • Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

  • Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

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