Xerxes Global is a private holding company based in Minneapolis, with an international presence and a portfolio of fast-growing, synergistic businesses.
THE ROLE
We’re looking for a visionary product leader who can keep the client in focus while creating, leading, and evangelizing the product vision, navigating through technical requirements, go-to-market plans, and design globally spread Product leadership, development, UX, and Product marketing functions to ensure our products meet the highest standards of quality and innovation.
A successful candidate will:
- Work collaboratively with engineering, marketing, legal, UX, and other teams on delivering innovative product features and technologies.
- Ideate, develop and launch product roadmaps based on the customer journeys and aligned with the wider business and product strategy.
- Lead cross-functional teams, distributed globally to ensure successful product delivery.
- Collaborate and help grow a high-performing product team by creating a thorough product knowledge base, product management best practices and exhibiting exemplary product acumen.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in preferably engineering or computer science
- 5+ years of experience in product management, preferably in one of the following: SaaS, data cloud management, big data, security and privacy, development and operations, or artificial intelligence/machine learning.
- Passionate about creating streamlined user experiences by simplifying complex data ingestion and onboarding processes
- Be an advocate for scalable and operability solutions, evolving the existing capabilities and driving new ones to further scale, simplify and automate data interactions with the user.
- Familiarity with Data Science and/or Data Engineering personas (you know what a panda is)
- Be just as comfortable in a deep technical conversation as you are in a discussion about strategy, pricing, marketing or go-to-market
- Proven successful track-record of building consumer product experiences across complex projects in a highly collaborative environment
- Knowledge in AI, and ideally Generative AI
- A strategic mindset, ability to be comfortable with ambiguity
- Ability to lead and influence stakeholders on different levels
- Ability to switch between big picture and attention to detail, with distinctive business acumen and problem-solving skills.
- Have an excellent understanding of the software product development cycle.
- Technical aptitude and knowledge of the data ecosystem to understand the intricacies of our products and our customers data needs
ABOUT US
Xerxes Global Holdings is comprised of the following businesses:
· EBM Software delivers performance software solutions that drive growth for private equity funds, investment banks, and middle market to large corporations.
· Blue Ops specializes in strategic M&A advisory and business growth in private equity, investment banking, portfolio companies, etc.
· The Association of Retail and Consumer Professionals (ARC) is the parent organization of the Category Management Association (CMA), the Shopper Insights Management Association (SIMA), the Retail Dieticians Business Alliance (RDBA), and the Space Planning Association (SPA).
· XGS is our new data science and artificial intelligence business headquartered in Dublin, Ireland that focuses on developing and productizing advanced analytics for clients.
· Studio X provides a full range of video production to internal and external clients out of our film studio in Minneapolis.
Employees here are an elite group of bright, strategic thinkers. They are encouraged to take the ball and run with it, and there’s no question your impact can be felt. Our employees are highly valued on an individual level and are constantly pushed to grow and continuously move onward and upward in their careers. Here, you’ll work with top-level executives and thought leaders, making connections, and continually learning. We do everything possible to ensure you can grow and shine in your role.
Xerxes Global, LLC provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
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