VP Product Management – Tm1 B2B

VP Product Management – Tm1 B2B

Requirements

• The ability to craft a narrative – breaking down complex problems and challenges, articulating an appropriate story to each of your internal and external stakeholder groups to achieve buy in, trust and ensure the necessary impact is delivered by your teams
• The aptitude to set out a clear vision – understanding the bigger strategic picture and how each of the missions plays a part in achieving our objectives. Able to reduce unnecessary noise to keep your team focused on continually delivering impact to shift those levers
• A listening ear – building strong ties across the global organization to maintain a Product voice and presence. In return able to provide first-hand transparency of priorities and progress
• Proficiency in making the tough calls – able to critically assess asks, wants, needs and make tough calls on what we will do, what we won’t do and in what priority those problems will be tackled
• The capacity to elevate the role of Product within the organization, from a service provider to a strategic partner that continually identifies and drives impact
• Directional leadership – the ability to influence, guide and mentor a team of highly capable product individuals to achieve both business goals, personal and professional development
• A finger on the pulse – staying informed and abreast of both the ecommerce and ticketing landscapes. Constantly learning from what’s going on around us and making astute product judgements to guide our path forward

Responsibilities

• Develop, lead, and evangelize the product vision and strategy for the company’s TM1 platform
• Manage and develop a team of product managers within a consistent, high performing culture of product development
• Lead and define the development of the long-term product roadmap
• Work with product managers to prioritize, conceptualize, and program product development and enhancement, including the identification of key deliverables, SLAs and KPIs for all products
• Collaborate and partner with industry vertical leaders (Pro Sports, Arts & Theatre, Festivals, Venues, and Promoters) and all global regions to identify product needs and opportunities and prioritize them into the roadmap
• Prioritize and deliver business requirements across programs and initiatives and balance value vs. complexity
• Prepare and deliver comprehensive communications to convey product vision and how it aligns with enterprise strategy
• Support Ticketmaster’s domain driven design principles globally across various systems and marketplaces
• Drive standards and accountability and foster a community of data-informed decision-making
• Leading an organization responsible for the entire product life cycle: – shaping the strategies, identifying priorities, crafting roadmaps, defining and prioritizing product requirements, delivery and post-launch care
• To identify the missions necessary to realize our short-term strategic goals and to galvanize our teams to deliver the associated impact
• To identify and define the long-term strategic vision and roadmap for the products and strategic lines of business in your organization
• Formulating clear and coherent business cases to practically assess optimum investment options
• Removing roadblocks so that Product Delivery Teams can focus on delivering the desired impacts without friction
• The ongoing development of a world class team of current and future product leaders with a focus on attracting, maintaining and growing talent our ever growing Marketplace Product Management team.

Preferred Qualifications

• Exemplary interpersonal skills
• A commanding leader who is a respected and trusted part of the team
• Excellent presentation, written and oral skills
• Strong attention to detail and highly analytical mind-set
• Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and aptitude to propose solutions
• Results and delivery focused with an eye for quality and scalability
• Ability to adjust priorities and approaches
• An emotionally intelligent, empathetic and respected manager