Principal Product Manager – Language Weaver

 

What we do:

 

SDL Machine Translation and Iconic Translation Machines have come together to provide the world's most powerful, comprehensive and adaptable neural machine translation platform - Language Weaver. We provide secure enterprise machine translation solutions, adapted to our businesses content - empowering our customers to communicate without language barriers.

 

Language Weaver is an award-winning proprietary technology which grew from research labs across the world, to the workflows of global enterprises. Its core function is to integrate with content intelligence applications to minimize the effort required to translate multilingual content.

 

Language Weaver is part of RWS, a world-leading provider of technology-enabled language, content management and intellectual property services. We help our clients to connect with and bring new ideas to people globally, by communicating business critical content at scale and enabling the protection and realisation of their innovations.

 

Intro
Are you passionate about building great customer experiences and developing scalable products? Do you want to have impact on thousands of enterprise customers and improve the way they process multilingual content every day? Do you want to be part of a fast-growing product line and work in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment? Does building new products excite you?
 

About The Role:

RWS is looking for a Principal Product Manager to help us drive our enterprise-grade secure Machine Translation product line forward and help develop new Linguistic AI capabilities. 
This is a very rare opportunity to join a select world-class technology group with 15+ years of experience in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing and delivering massive scale enterprise grade products – both on-premise and in the cloud. This position provides a unique chance to shape a fast-growing business.
In this role you will drive and influence the roadmap, build deep understanding of our customers’ needs, define product requirements, collaborate with engineering and champion the needs of customers. This is a true 360-degree role requiring coordination between customers, partners, sales teams, technical sales, marketing, technical account management, legal, and finance.
A successful candidate will bring strong business acumen and judgment, ability to define innovative products and features, desire to have an industry wide impact and ability to work within a fast-moving environment.

The ideal candidate has exceptional problem-solving skills, sound business judgment, and demonstrated experience in collaborating across cross-functional teams. You have a proven ability executing both strategically and tactically, and are excited to take on a new, not yet fully defined challenges.

At RWS you’ll experience the benefits of working in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment with proprietary technology. We are not an outsourcing company. We build and own the complete technology stack.

What we are looking for:

Product Management, Delivery
o 5+ years of experience in product management
o 2+ years of relevant work experience in taking new products to the market
o 4+ years of experience with managing product roadmaps
o Ability to conceptualize, scope and execute projects to strict deadlines
o Confident, self-motivated individual with strong, demonstrable bias for action
Product Design
o Experienced in gathering requirements and developing system specifications
o Analytical skills to understand customer use-cases, and challenge assumptions while working harmoniously with the business and technology owners
Analysis, Decisions Making and Communication
o Strong problem-solving skills
o Confident leader who can prioritize and analyse trade-offs, communicate clearly and compellingly and effectively influence internally and externally, across organization boundaries. Able to independently influence and resolve conflicts with others
o Excellent written and verbal communication skills
o Cross-organizational communication – comfortable evangelizing ideas and concerns clearly and persuasively, in both verbal and written form

Preferred Qualifications
* 2+ years of prior experience working with ML/NLP and/or BigData technologies
* 2+ years of prior experience working with SaaS products
* 2+ years of prior UX design experience

Education
* Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or other relevant fields

Success Metrics
* Product Revenue Performance
* Customer Satisfaction
* On-Time / On-Budget Delivery against agreed Roadmap

 

What you will get in return:

 

Aside from a competitive salary and outstanding benefits, you will be working for a team that nurtures, enables and trusts. We are committed to ensuring all our employees work in an environment that promotes teamwork, diversity and personal progression.

 

If you are looking for cutting edge tech, a company that nurtures and enables - come and join our team today and begin your new journey with us!

 

Life at RWS: We work hard together to deliver for our customers; our expertise, professionalism and determination to never let others down drives us to be passionate and serious about what we do, deliver customer value, yet always adding a human touch. 
 

As a company focused on connecting people through language, diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our company culture.
 

We are proud to work in a company where all can succeed and grow their career and while RWS operates in accordance with all local employment laws, if local law enables any form of discrimination this is against RWS company policy, and we will adhere to the highest standard.   

 

 

Equal Opportunity: RWS embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunity, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind.  RWS is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at RWS are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sex, age, disability or sexual orientation. RWS will not tolerate discrimination based on any of these characteristics.

 

 

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