Digital Product Manager - Color & Mobile

PPG Digital team is leading PPG and the coatings industry through an evolution in PPG's business strategies and structure - to capture opportunities enabled by digital technologies and provide amazing customer experiences while unlocking new revenue streams and reaching new customers.

PPG is looking for a Digital Product Manager to oversee PPG's product journey and discovery across the customer digital experience.

The Digital Product Manager will drive financial impact by partnering with internal customers to define and execute assigned product vision and strategy, manage the end-to-end lifecycle of a product, and help identify market opportunities. You will define and execute a thorough roadmap and product priorities based on a strong understanding of customer needs, financial impact, insights, and an even stronger handle on in-depth data analysis.

This role will require 10-20% travel. It is a hybrid role based in Pittsburgh, PA (USA).

Key Responsibilities

• Be the subject matter expert on iOS and Android mobile applications and color discovery and visualization in both B2C and B2B markets driving to a One PPG user experience
• A business-minded person who can work collaboratively with multiple partners and teams and has proven experience in creating influence, collecting input, providing influence, updates, managing expectations and defining work across product teams, delivery, Marketing, Operations, and IT to drive product management. Someone who is articulate and can effectively communicate with technical teams, non-technical business leaders, external agencies, and clients.
• Identify opportunities to bring market solutions around mobile-only or tablet-only features as well as improvements in an end-to-end customer experience
• Thorough understanding of the techniques and methods required of modern product discovery, product delivery and optimization through A/B and other testing methods, and the overall end-to-end product lifecycle (e.g., creating/owning strategic products from conception to launch and working with cross-functional teams)
• Working with appropriate PPG Business Stakeholders, understanding the business objectives and goals, and develop a product release roadmap that would deliver on outcomes related to the business objectives.
• Responsible for defining user stories and prioritizing to create a Team Backlog that is aligned to the defined roadmap and maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the features or components i.e. making the call on what is considered non-negotiable vs. nice to have. Also responsible for accepting stories as those are done i.e. accountable for signing-off sprints
• The Digital Product Manager will need to support the development of communication, change management, and training content.
• Ability to inspire, motivate and lead
• Use data to monitor changes and make data-driven decisions
• Building a clear and concrete set of product KPIs, deriving key insights, and driving experiments and multivariate testing to find product solutions

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in product management
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills with an ability to state things simply and persuasively for a variety of audiences - internal, external, business, and technical * Entrepreneurial mindset
• Ability to execute and manage expectations within a cross-functional, matrix management environment
• Good understanding of Agile and SAFe Agile development principles
• Exceptional data analytics skills.
• Ability to lead high-performing, cross-functional teams
• Good industry knowledge and understanding of current and future trends
• Ability to provide clear direction, set measurable goals, and give insight on industry trends.
• History of making challenging tradeoffs in establishing product priorities that have required sophisticated analyses and challenging negotiations.
• Strong project management skills and ability to present work to executive stakeholders.
• Comprehensive understanding of the market landscape, both through a technology and competitor lens.
• BA/BS degree required, MBA preferred.
• Hands-on experience with Agile/Lean Startup methodologies.

About us:

Here at PPG we make it happen, and we seek candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our values, with the commitment and drive to strive today to do better than yesterday - everyday.

PPG: WE PROTECT AND BEAUTIFY THE WORLD

Through leadership in innovation, sustainability and color, PPG helps customers in industrial, transportation, consumer products, and construction markets and aftermarkets to enhance more surfaces in more ways than does any other company. To learn more, visit www.ppg.com and follow @ PPG on Twitter.

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PPG provides equal opportunity to all candidates and employees. We offer an opportunity to grow and develop your career in an environment that provides a fulfilling workplace for employees, creates an environment for continuous learning, and embraces the ideas and diversity of others. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, pregnancy, race, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, disability status, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression. If you need an adjustment due to a disability, please email recruiting@ppg.com.

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