**_Responsibilities_**
- Identifies and evaluates new technologies, innovations, and outsourced development partner relationships for alignment with technology roadmap and business value; creates plans for integration and update into architecture
- Reviews and evaluates designs and project activities for compliance with development guidelines and standards; provides tangible feedback to improve product quality and mitigate failure risk
- Leverages recognized domain expertise, business acumen, and experience to influence decisions of executive business leadership, outsourced development partners, and industry standards groups
- Provides guidance and mentoring to less
**_ Knowledge & Skills_**
- Expertise of complex software systems, including enterprise, middleware, firmware, and embedded systems
- Strong experience in software development, systems engineering, software product management, or electrical engineering
- Expert business acumen and knowledge of root cause analysis and problem detection
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
- History of innovation with multiple patents or deployed solutions in the field of software design
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; mastery in English and local language
- Ability to effectively communicate product architectures, design proposals and negotiate options at business unit and executive levels
**_ Scope & Impact_**
- Partners with sales, customer success, and support teams to define business requirements, product design, deployment and adoption plans
- Provides guidance for junior team members
- Oversees the overall quality of work of the product management team
- Decisions with regard to products may have organizational impacts of up to a year
**_ Complexity_**
- High: Extensive cross-functional/cross-organizational senior management interface; deals with complex strategic issues
- Provides highly innovative solutions. Leads large, cross-division functional teams or projects that affect the organization's long-term goals and objectives. May participate in cross-division, multi-function teams. Provides mentoring and guidance to lower level employees.
**_ Education & Experience_**
- Bachelor's degree in relevant area or demonstrated competence. Typically 10+ years of General/owner experience.