Manager, Senior Product

About the role

The Senior Product Manager (SPM) is responsible for driving the vision, growth, and profitability of Data and Analytics products. This role oversees the product roadmap and backlog, prioritizing data-driven capabilities that align with business strategy and enable actionable insights. The SPM collaborates closely with data engineering, data science, visualization, and business teams to deliver scalable analytics solutions, ensures stakeholders are equipped to leverage data products, and engages with customers and executives to demonstrate value. Through strong market awareness and data-informed decision-making, the SPM ensures a competitive, impactful data and analytics product portfolio that delivers measurable business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the assigned digital product line's overall vision, growth, and profitability.
• Create, communicate, and maintain the product roadmap and backlog to ensure visibility and transparency of planned work.
• Create Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).
• Communicate progress to leadership and explain why key results are/or are not being achieved.
• Identify business opportunities that can be met through the development of software.
• Maintain a value-based prioritized backlog of opportunities for products that align with the business strategy and goals.
• Make key tradeoff decisions.
• Develop business cases and economic models backed by data.
• Use product discovery techniques to move from idea to prototype.
• Maintain awareness of third-party capabilities that provide viable product solutions.
• Negotiate contracts and manage vendor relationships.
• Partner with Design, Engineering, and Scrum Masters to work within a product team to deliver the product backlog.
• Deliver results for key product metrics and goals that support business objectives.
• Assist the product, engineering, and scrum team during regular ceremonies: feature review, grooming, sprint plans, and demos by being the voice of the customer and communicating the value behind each product and prioritization decision.
• Establish and maintain relationships with stakeholders across the organization to communicate status, align priorities, and ensure operational support for go-to-market plans.
• Engage in constructive conversations with - and deliver tough messages when needed - to key stakeholders, including senior executives, while continually building professional and productive relationships.
• Stay current with industry trends as well as competitors’ enterprise software capabilities.
• Develop user stories granular enough to be achieved in a single sprint, elaborate on Epics and Features, create and maintain the product backlog, support user and application testing, and coordinate release activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Product Management, Marketing, Business, Digital Platforms, Engineering, or equivalent.
• 5 or more years in engineering or product line management of software products, analytics offerings, or Digital portfolios.

Skills and Abilities

• Leadership and team-building experience required.
• Ability to work with a diverse group of employees and departments.
• Excellent Communication skills (verbal and written).
• Experience budgeting, planning, and organizing.

About Us

We set out more than 160 years ago to promote the security of life and property at sea and preserve the natural environment. Today, we remain true to our mission and continue to support organizations facing a rapidly evolving seascape of challenging regulations and new technologies. Through it all, we are anchored by a vision and mission that help our clients find clarity in uncertain times. ABS is a global leader in marine and offshore classification and other innovative safety, quality, and environmental services. We're at the forefront of supporting the global energy transition at sea, the application of remote and autonomous marine systems, cutting-edge technical solutions, and many more exciting advancements. Our commitment to safety, reliability, and efficiency is ever-present, guiding our clients to safer and more efficient operations.

Benefits

ABS Bureau proudly offers a variety of industry-leading benefits designed to enhance the life and well-being of our employees and their families. These benefits include, but are not limited to, medical insurance (PPO and HD), dental and vision insurance, Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Savings Account (FSA), life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, disability leave programs, parental leave program, paid holidays, and paid vacation time. The Company provides an Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) that offers support in personal wellness, including work-life services. ABS Bureau also offers a 401K plan with a generous company match, subject to plan requirements.

Equal Opportunity

ABS Bureau is committed to the equal employment opportunity of its employees and prohibits discrimination against any employee or qualified applicant based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship status or veteran status, or other non-work-related characteristics that may be protected under the law of the Federal Government or specific state employment laws.