Manager - Engineering (Substation/transmission specialist) (REMOTE)

$104,267 - $177,254/Yr

WESCO - Amarillo, TX

Full-time - Manager

Remote - Amarillo, TX

10,001+ employees

Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods

About the position

As a Manager - Engineering specializing in substation and transmission, you will oversee the entire lifecycle of digital products, ensuring alignment with business objectives and successful launches. This role involves acting as a mediator between consumers and technical teams, translating consumer needs into product features, and recommending a digital roadmap to achieve strategic goals.

Responsibilities

• Drives product strategies and vision to build best in class digital products.
• Accountable for the success of the product and ensures that the products deliver measurable value across the Product Management Lifecycle.
• Takes the lead of scrum teams, develops and communicates the product roadmap across the enterprise and with external partners/stakeholders in an agile environment.
• Develops a detailed understanding of user and business needs through persona identification, journey mapping, and a Design Thinking approach to product management.
• Plans and prioritizes the delivery of features based on business guidance, time, governance constraints, and value.
• Communicates with Portfolio, Digital, and Various leaders on business needs, progress to goals, KPIs, and outcome-based roadmaps.
• Leads the team by working collaboratively to clearly understand and communicate the vision, problem opportunities, and ensures the team always has the appropriate backlog of work.
• Oversees the acceptance of work generated by the team under the agreed Definition of Done and continues to drive the agile mindset and best practices.
• Partners with product, commercial, change, and marketing teams to ensure that customer needs for each targeted segment are incorporated into product design, branding, and marketing approaches.
• Keeps abreast of external digital landscape, including annual competitive studies, targeted competitive analysis, industry trends and digital developments in other market segments to proactively recommend capabilities that enable growth.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required
• 5 years of product management lifecycle management in a digital application
• 5 years of experience operating in digital channels, including web, mobile, apps and social; experience with scanning and mobility solutions
• 3 years of leading and growing a product and team with an outcome focused roadmap
• 2 years of presenting recommendations to peers, management and leadership
• 1 year of leading in depth research and analysis on markets, best practices, evolving customer and industry expectations
• 3 years as Product Owner/Scaled Product Owner on a scrum team in an agile environment
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• Strong knowledge of cross-browser, cross-platform and cross-device compatibility standards and behaviors
• Knowledge of visual design principles and graphical user interface development
• Ability to lead cross-functional groups (internal and external) in strategic and tactical discussions with clear goals, objectives and outcomes
• Demonstrated ability to filter through various requests and provide return-on-effort recommendations to management
• Ability to multi-task and reprioritize in a dynamic environment
• Curious mind that constantly looks to solve user/customer problems.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits plan
• Participation in an incentive plan for eligible positions