Lead Planning Product Manager Anaplan

In short

As a Senior Lead Product Manager within the Planning team, you will be instrumental in defining how we build the future. You will lead and mentor a team of Product Managers, championing a strategic and data-informed approach to product planning. Your focus will be on establishing clear processes, fostering collaboration, and ensuring our technology roadmap aligns seamlessly with On's overarching business objectives. Working closely with stakeholders and functional leaders, you will cultivate a deep understanding of our strategic priorities and translate them into actionable plans for our technology teams.

Your Mission

• Establish Planning Excellence: Contribute significantly to defining and implementing best-in-class product planning processes across technology teams, ensuring clarity, alignment, and efficiency.
• Drive Strategic Alignment: Deeply understand On's business strategy and translate it into a cohesive and prioritized technology roadmap, ensuring all initiatives contribute to key objectives.
• Empower with Insights: Discover stakeholder needs and challenges related to product planning, leveraging data and insights to inform strategic decisions and identify opportunities for improvement in our planning methodologies.
• Facilitate Effective Prioritization: Champion a robust prioritization framework, ensuring we focus on the initiatives that will deliver the most significant impact and align with our strategic goals.
• Foster Collaboration: Be a central point of collaboration, working closely with Product Managers, Engineering Leads, and functional stakeholders to ensure seamless communication and alignment throughout the planning lifecycle.
• Define and Track Success: Establish clear metrics and key results specifically focused on the effectiveness of our planning processes, working with Technology leaders to track progress and identify areas for optimization.
• Promote Transparency: Advocate for clear and transparent communication of our product plans and roadmaps across the organization.

Your story

• Planning Focused Experience: You bring 5+ years of hands-on product management experience in a tech-driven environment, with a demonstrable focus on and passion for effective product planning methodologies and strategic roadmap development.
• Platform Mindset: You have experience building and scaling platform solutions using cloud-based technologies, understanding the importance of a well-defined and communicated platform strategy.
• API and Data Acumen: You understand the role of APIs and data in enabling effective planning and decision-making, and can communicate their value to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Agile Planning Expertise: You possess a deep understanding and appreciation of agile methodologies and how they integrate with effective product planning, enabling you to translate business needs into flexible and adaptable plans.
• Strategic Communicator: You excel at connecting strategic objectives with tactical plans using data and insights, and you have the ability to clearly communicate the "why" behind our roadmap to your team and stakeholders.
• Exceptional Leadership and Collaboration: Your exceptional communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills enable you to build strong cross-functional relationships and effectively lead and influence without direct authority. You are passionate about fostering a collaborative and transparent planning environment.

What to expect

We want to set everyone up for success, so here’s the lowdown on how we hire. Our process is a two-way street – bringing you into our culture, while helping us learn how you think.

Our full process can last about eight weeks from application to offer, because we care about getting it right. These steps explain how we usually do things.

Before you get started, feel free to consider if you want to work with us. Strange question? Well, we give people a lot of space to navigate their day-to-day and that style isn't for everyone. We want you to be passionate about what you do and be sure this is the right fit. Because when skills and passion combine – it creates that 'Wow' moment.

• Step One

  It starts with you...

  You'll start by submitting your application to a specific role. We try to keep this step as simple as possible. We do get a lot of applications, but we review them all. We ask that you allow around 14 days for us to come back to you with a response. If you are a good fit to the role, someone will follow up with you within that window. If you didn't receive a reply, or were unsuccessful this time around, we encourage you to look for other possible matches at On.

• Step Two

  Interview with a recruiter

  What ignites your spirit? This is where we’ll start getting to know all about you and what makes you tick – and it’s your first chance to get a feel for our culture. Chatting with a member of our talent team, you’ll learn more about On and how we work. We’ll learn about what motivates you and what you could bring to the team.

• Step Three

  Interview with a hiring manager

  Ready to dig into the details? This second interview will be held with your future manager and will focus on the specifics of the job. Together you’ll delve into your unique skills and experiences and how they could be relevant at On. It's also a time to assess how you might feel working side-by-side. Bring any questions you have about the job, the team or anything else you might like to know – this is an open forum.

• Step Four

  The Case Study

  What's your style? This task will help us understand how you think, face a challenge and give insight into your novel ideas. Designed to give everyone their best shot, your case study is based on something you might typically experience on the job. This is your chance to show us what you’ve got. So express yourself. Be you.

• Step Five

  The Experience Day

  Your first taste of the Oniverse. This is a time to meet some of the people you'll be working closest with. In person or virtually, you'll get a feel for the day-to-day at On and the people who make it happen. You'll chat with a few potential teammates - the conversations will be as equally driven by the role and your experience as by our values. We believe how you do things is just as important as what you do.

• Step Six

  The Result

  Are we a good fit? We’ll get together internally to share our feedback and decide if we’re a match. We know that job searching is a big time investment, so it’s not a decision we take lightly. It’s also time for you to reflect on the experience – are we the right place for you? No matter the outcome, we’ll give you meaningful feedback.

Step One:

It starts with you...

You'll start by submitting your application to a specific role.

We try to keep this step as simple as possible. We do get a lot of applications, but we review them all. We ask that you allow around 14 days for us to come back to you with a response. If you are a good fit to the role, someone will follow up with you within that window. If you didn't receive a reply, or were unsuccessful this time around, we encourage you to look for other possible matches at On.