Lead Product Manager - Cape Town, South Africa - LexisNexis

LexisNexis

Verified Company

Cape Town, South Africa

1 week ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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Description

Would you like to build products to delight our customers?
Can you use a data-driven approach to uncover information and opportunities?
Join us in shaping a more just world.
About Us
LexisNexis, a part of RELX, is a leading global provider of legal, regulatory, and business information. We help customers increase productivity and improve decision-making and outcomes. Our 10,500 experts and innovative tools help us shape a better world for our customers and communities.
About the Role
As a Lead Product Manager, you'll own one or more product features and lead projects for those features. Owning product development plans, you'll work closely with development teams to execute on important product initiatives. You'll prioritize and communicate production issues and defects and lead demonstrations to stakeholders at program milestones.

Responsibilities:

Working closely with UK and US based product managers to fully understand user needs for Lexis+, the State Net product, and other related offerings, including understanding pain-points and building solutions that make a difference

Digesting market research and building understanding both personally and within the teams to make effective product decisions
Collaborating with internal crossfunctional teams in South Africa, the US and UK to successfully deliver ontime and robust product enhancements and solutions
Evaluating product approaches in a quantitative manner using AB testing for interactive products to generate new ideas
Managing portions of our product lifecycle by planning and documenting objectives and key results
Leading a small team of PMs in providing leadership and support to South Africa development teams.
Cross training across countries, to build necessary skills for team members

Requirements*-

Have a proficient background in various technologies including Excel, Balsamiq, Tableau, Python and SQL

Show knowledge of data and technical architecture principles, bestpractices and be familiar with SDLCs and agile processes.
Have excellent communication skills and the ability to present complex information to a variety of audiences, both locally and globally
Have great experience working as a Product Owner, shipping enhancements and innovation to customers
Demonstrate experience in using a datadriven approach to solve problems and deliver effective solutions
Be able to collaborate with crossfunctional technical teams to create, build and ship successful products to customers
Have brilliant organizational skills and be able to adapt and flex to deliver multiple priorities
Show a customercentric focus when creating solutions
Have experience managing a small team, providing ongoing motivation, guidance, support and direction.

Work in a way that works for you
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization, with various flexible and remote working options available to employees
Working with Us
LexisNexis Legal & Professional is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer.

We are committed to equal opportunity employment regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

Together, we are building a diverse and inclusive workplace.
Working for you
We believe in a healthy work/life balance. We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career.

These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

Comprehensive, multicarrier health plan benefits
Disability insurance
Dependent care and commuter spending accounts
Life and accident insurance
Retirement benefits (salary investment plan/employer stock purchase plan)
Modern family benefits, including adoption and surrogacy

About our Team
LexisNexis is a data and analytics company with 10,500 colleagues serving customers in more than 150 countries. We're one of the largest information and analytics companies on the planet. We design solutions that help our customers increase productivity, improve decision-making and outcomes, and be more successful.