Product Manager (Japanese required)

Job Role

Product Manager

Job Description

Are you our “TYPE”? Brands constantly seek to achieve deeper appeal and connection with their target audience and customers. They express themselves in unique ways, in ways that are meaningful, attractive, and compelling to their audience. Fonts play a key role in this and are central to every brand’s visual identity and expression. Headquartered in the Boston area of the United States and with offices across 4 continents, Monotype is the world’s leading company in fonts. It’s a trusted partner to the world’s top brands and was named “One of the Most Innovative Companies in Design for 2018” by Fast Company. Monotype brings brands to life through the type and technology that consumers engage with every day. The company's rich legacy includes a library that can be traced back hundreds of years, featuring famed typefaces like Helvetica, Neue Frutiger, Gotham, Times New Roman and more. Monotype also provides a first-of-its-kind service that makes fonts more accessible for creative professionals to discover, license, and use in our increasingly digital world. We work with the biggest global brands, and with individual creatives, offering a wide set of solutions that make it easier for them to do what they do best: design beautiful brand experiences. Monotype Solutions India is a strategic Center of excellence for Monotype and is a certified Great Place to Work® three years in a row. The India canter is the largest headcount location of Monotype. It is based in NOIDA, Sector 125 (Delhi/NCR). The focus of this fast-growing Center spans Product Development, Product Management, Experience Design, User Research, Market Intelligence, Research in areas of Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning, Innovation, Customer Success, Enterprise Business Solutions, and Sales. Monotype is looking for senior product leaders to help drive strategy, product roadmaps and business analytics to enable success of enterprise business initiatives. This role will require bringing together multidisciplinary skillsets to provide creative and holistic product leadership, including strong product management experience, technology expertise, financial acumen, agile scrum management, and strategy development. We are looking for team players and product advocates comfortable working with engineering, business stakeholders and customers. What you’ll be doing: • Synthesize and prioritize customer feedback, competitive offerings and new ideas to create product visions and actionable roadmaps. • Truly drive the Value Management lifecycle • Work with engineering to develop product backlogs, and help guide development and delivery to market. • Develop business cases and conduct analyses to determine product viability, ROI and feature prioritization. • Work with sales and marketing to align roadmaps and value proposition messaging with customer marketing and new business development. • Serve as domain experts for engineering, sales and marketing stakeholders to help drive go to market strategy. • Monitor customer success metrics for ongoing product optimization and ROI realization. • Assist with business development support as needed e.g. proposals, application questions, roadmap communication. • Work closely with internal research team to analyze markets, users, and roadmap market fit. • Follow competition and industry trends, as well as Agile/Scrum best practices and trends • Build and manage strong working relationships with the cross-functional teams including Engineering, Operations, User Experience, Customer Care, CX, Sales, Sales Support and external vendors needed to drive an efficient development effort for new Digital Commerce initiatives.

Benefits

COLLABORATE with global teams to build scalable web-based applications PARTNER closely with engineering team to follow best practices and standards. PROVIDE reliable solutions to a variety of problems using sound problem solving techniques WORK with the broader team to build and maintain high performance, flexible and highly scalable web-based applications ACHIEVE engineering excellence by implementing standard practices and standards PERFORM technical root causes analysis and outlines corrective action for given problems

Required skills & Experience