What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Product Development position at Exacta Systems?
Key Responsibilities
- Defines and drives the product vision and strategy taking full responsibility for the product roadmap
- Develops a strong team of product managers/owners and designers through recruiting, training, and ongoing coaching
- Leeds the product roadmap prioritization through the evaluation of data, customer behavior and feedback, financial analysis, and stakeholder input
- In collaboration with senior engineering team, creates a culture of empowered product/development teams that are focused on delivering business results
- Leads a product and engineering culture of continuous and rapid testing and learning and continuous innovation utilizing a variety of techniques
- Leads strong collaboration efforts between user experience design and engineering to ensure product solutions are valuable, usable, feasible, and viable
- Oversees collaboration with cross functional business teams in order to ensure successful product launches
- Reinforces a culture of data-driven decision making
- Develops into the recognized expert on our company’s customers and users
- Gathers feedback from our customers to understand their desires and pain points
Requirements
- Experience defining, driving, and executing product strategy in an online business through a strategic and effective roadmap
- Experience owning complex online products and working with senior and top-level stakeholders
- Ability to communicate cross-functionally: being tech-savvy with engineering/product teams, along with being able to navigate conversations about cost structures, margins, market share, compliance, product positioning, and brand with marketing, finance, legal, and operations teams
- Top-tier collaborator with high level of emotional intelligence
- Deep knowledge of UX & Design/Software Development/Program Management
- Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication and presentation skills in order to effectively describe, educate, and persuade
- Experience in an Agile environment
- Strong background in UX and Design
- Desire to take initiative in identifying and improving established processes
- Passionate about creating great online/mobile products
- Desire to learn about the horse racing market and to develop a deep understanding of our industry, business, and target customers
Preferred Qualifications
- Gaming and/or HHR experience is a plus, but not a requirement
- Experience implementing AI-based solutions
