Product Director

Meet ChemAxon:

ChemAxon is a quickly growing, open and friendly science driven software company. We provide a variety of software solutions, toolkits and web applications for users in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry, and education.

Location: Váci Greens Office Park, Budapest

Description:

We are looking for a Budapest-based Product Director who is responsible for creating the product vision and roadmap for his/her product group and its efficient execution.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the Product managers of his/her group, people manager for all PMs within the product group
• Stay within budget and deliver the expected profitability of products within his/her group
• Help the CPO in product protfolio related decessions
• Driving efficient product management culture, practices, and processes within the group
• User satisfaction for products within the group
• Provide advice and guidance with role-related challenges
• Act as a sounding board for ideas and action plans
• Encourage and support direct reports to try new things and to take risks when appropriate
• Identify resources that will help direct reports with product and personal development and growth
• Co-create with direct reports the personal learning and development objectives and track progress
• Provide feedback to direct reports and evaluate their performance
• Ensure direct reports set goals for themselves that are aligned with the company/team/product goals and progress is tracked
• Co-create standards for knowledge and skills for the role(s)of the direct reports
• Support and propose process improvements based on business requirements
• Drive and support continuous learning and improvement
• Break-ties / make strategic decisions on product-related topics within the group

Desired knowledge and experience:

• Experience in managing more than one product at the same time
• Strong product management knowledge with a business focus
• Understanding of the role of UX in product management
• Familiarity with agile software development
• High level understanding of SaaS development

Advantages:

• Experience and knowledge of change management techniques
• Familiarity with the Pharma/Life sciences domains
• In-depth knowledge of tech domains

Skills:

• Good stakeholder management
• Familiarity with situational leadership
• Excellent presentation skills
• Empathy
• Openness to learn
• Strategic thinking
• Excellent in English

What we offer:

• Competitive salary in a growing and continuously improving innovative company
• A modern office environment with ergonomic workstations
• The opportunity to learn & develop with an annual training budget
• Flexible working hours with partial home office opportunity
• Opportunity to utilize your English skills
• The opportunity to be part of a dynamic geographically dispersed team

Covid info:

Although we are a great believer that colocation supports collaboration and the flow of knowledge, we mostly work from home at the moment. The office - with all the necessary safety regulations & equipment - is still open for those who prefer to work there.

For some info on ChemAxon, you can check two videos:

• a shorter one about who we are (~1.5 min)
• another one with some history and about what we do (~5m)

How to apply? If you are interested please send your CV by clicking the "Apply now" button below.