Lead Technical PM Specialist

What's the role?

HERE is hiring a Technical Product Manager who will assume the following responsibilities. 

Responsibilities:  

• Responsible for the translation of customer & internal stakeholder requirements into technical requirements including definition and validation of acceptance criteria of engineering deliverables realizing the same. 

• Responsibility and oversight for one or multiple services and/or engineering teams and pods used within the engineering organization to extract data, further process data, and merge & validate data from various sources into a digital map. 

• Partners and collaborate with engineering leadership team to build and maintain a technology roadmap at a service or component level up to an integrated higher-level roadmap with a short-to-long-term perspective for the larger engineering organization. 

• Serves as a single source of contact for the requirement intake process for the engineering organization at product/service level, resulting in an approved engineering execution plan. 

• Oversee intake, investigation and support of internal/external customer software issue/bug reports within the broader engineering organization. 

• Solves complex problems; takes initiative and a new perspective on existing solutions; exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information. 

• Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective on existing solutions; exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information. 

• Identify and document risks to product deliverable and own risk mitigation plan 

• Identify, manage and foster dependencies to the work of other internal and external teams to ensure end to end delivery of project/ deliverable. 

• Lead teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk and/or complexity. 

• Leads others to solve complex problems; uses sophisticated analytical thought to exercise judgement and identify innovative solutions.

Who are you?

You would have the following experience and skills.

Qualifications: 

• Typically requires a minimum of 6+ years of related experience in a software development role with a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree; or equivalent work experience. 

• Ability to lead projects or project steps within a broader project; acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience.  

• Requires in-depth conceptual and practical knowledge in own discipline and basic knowledge of related disciplines. Ability to work independently with minimal guidance.   

• Has the capability to understand customer & stakeholder requirements and transform them into engineering and system requirements. 

• Business expertise: Has knowledge of current state-of-the-art tools and techniques used to plan and organize engineering software development such as Jira, Confluence, Agile Methodology and others.  

• Has good knowledge in the disciplines of Project Management and Program. Management and related tools and techniques.   

• Has very good communication and analytical skills and can quickly understand complex scenarios.  

• Python programming expertise is a plus. 

• Ability to query databases and datastores is a plus. 

• Communicates difficult concepts and negotiates with others to adopt a different point of view. 

HERE is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

Who are we?

HERE Technologies is a location data and technology platform company. We empower our customers to achieve better outcomes – from helping a city manage its infrastructure or a business optimize its assets to guiding drivers to their destination safely. 

At HERE we take it upon ourselves to be the change we wish to see. We create solutions that fuel innovation, provide opportunity and foster inclusion to improve people’s lives. If you are inspired by an open world and driven to create positive change, join us. Learn more about us on our YouTube Channel.