Language Weaver Product Manager

at  RWS Group

Job Purpose:
Linguistic AI is looking for a Product Manager to help us drive our enterprise-grade secure Language Weaver AI and Machine Translation product lines 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-premises and in the cloud. This position provides a unique chance to shape a fast-growing business.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

The 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.
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Product Management, Delivery:

• Ability to conceptualize, scope and execute projects to strict deadlines
• Confident, self-motivated individual with strong, demonstrable bias for action
• Relevant work experience in driving business decisions
• Product Design:
• Analytical skills to understand customer use-cases, and challenge assumptions while working harmoniously with the business and technology owners (especially the Technical Product Manager)
• Experienced in gathering requirements and developing solution specifications
• Analysis, Decisions Making and Communication:
• Strong problem-solving skills
• 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
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Cross-organizational communication – comfortable evangelizing ideas and concerns clearly and persuasively, in both verbal and written form
• Desirable Experience:
• Prior experience in Product Management, with a successful track record of building and delivering enterprise grade capabilities.
• Prior experience in working with enterprise customers
• Experience working with both technology and commercial teams

Life at RWS:
At RWS, we’re here for one purpose: unlocking global understanding.
As a unique, world-leading provider of technology-enabled language, content, and intellectual property services, we remove the barriers to communication to make global connection possible. Our unrivalled experience and deep understanding of language have been developed over more than 60 years. As we look to shape the future, our ambition is to create a world where understanding is universal for everyone.
We work with over 80% of the world’s top 100 brands, more than three-quarters of Fortune’s 20 ‘Most Admired Companies’ and almost all the top pharmaceutical companies, investment banks, law firms and patent filers. Our client base spans Europe, Asia Pacific and North and South America. Our 65+ global locations across five continents service clients in the automotive, chemical, financial, legal, medical, pharmaceutical, technology and telecommunications sectors.
Over the past 20 years we’ve been evolving our own AI solutions as well as helping clients to explore, build and use multilingual AI applications. With 45+ AI-related patents and more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, we have the experience and expertise to support clients on their AI journey.
If you like the idea of working with smart people who are passionate about breaking down language barriers and giving back to their communities, then you’ll love life at RWS. Our work fundamentally recognizes the value of every language and culture. So, we celebrate difference, we are inclusive and believe that diversity makes us strong.
We want every employee to grow as an individual and excel in their career. In return, we expect all our people to live by the values that unite us: to partner with colleagues and clients, to adopt a pioneering spirit, to be positive in progressing the work we do, and always to deliver what we promise.

In this role you will:
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Drive and Influence the Product Roadmap: Develop and maintain a strategic product roadmap that aligns with business goals and customer needs.

• Understand Customer Needs: Conduct market research and gather customer feedback to build a deep understanding of their requirements and pain points.
• Define Product Requirements: Collaborate with Sales, Pre-Sales, and other stakeholders to define clear and actionable product requirements.
• Champion Customer Needs: Advocate for the customer in all product discussions, ensuring their needs are prioritized.
• Drive Growth Initiatives: Lead initiatives to drive product and sales growth, coordinating efforts across customers, partners, sales teams, technical sales, marketing, technical account management, legal, and finance.