Product Lead, Devices

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* Job Description:

** Here at Rakuten Kobo Inc. we offer a casual working start-up environment and a group of friendly and talented individuals. Our employees rank us highly in terms of commitment to work/life balance. We realize that for our people to be innovative, creative and passionate they need to feel valued and supported. We believe in rewarding all our employees with competitive salaries, performance based annual bonuses, stock options and training opportunities.

If you’re looking for a company that inspires passion, personal, and professional growth – join Kobo and come help us on our mission of making
* reading lives better*.
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* The Role:

** Our Product team is searching for an enthusiastic Product Lead for our eReader team, who can help shape the way customers interact with our products and services. As the Product Lead, you will report to the Director of Product, Devices (as an interim, reporting to the VP of Product Management) and work with an amazing team that has consistently delivered the best eReaders in the world, in an extremely competitive space.

The ideal candidate has experience working on technical products, particularly in hardware consumer products, with experience in driving growth and retention. You are passionate about doing right by our readers, are diligent, exhibit exceptional attention to detail, and are a strong communicator.

You will be part of a diverse and collaborative team, managing two product managers and all phases of the device product life cycle, from ideation to development, launch and beyond. You will own the eReader portfolio product management function, focusing on both leading the evolution of the device portfolio and team, while working with an engineering team to deliver growth. Your day to day tasks include market research, creating various product documentation, managing a product backlog & roadmap, reporting and analyzing product performance for continuous improvements and working on initiatives to drive growth.

If you’re driven, analytical, creative, organized, adaptable, performance-focused, and able to deliver high-quality work within a fast-paced environment, we want to hear from you. This role is in our eReader team.

Key Responsibilities:

* Assume end-to-end responsibility for a consumer hardware product that is used by millions of users worldwide.
* You must be proficient with the four core functions of product management:
* ** Understand the user**, our business and the broader market. This means working with our User Experience, research, industrial design and product marketing teams to become the expert in the market space of eReaders.
* ** Identify the right user problems
** to solve based on user and business impact.
* ** Deliver
* * by working with design, software development teams to prioritize, plan and launch various experiments & solutions to the problem.
* ** Analyze
* * the data to understand how the product is working and then plan for what’s next
* Define a vision and roadmap for the eReader device portfolio, communicating it throughout the organization to gain alignment and prioritization, engaging various cross-functional groups to keep them involved and aligned through the progress.
* Review research, customer feedback channels, and product analytics, seeking problems to solve for users and opportunities to improve your product.
* Work with a product development team of engineering, design, and cross-functionally with marketing, sales to deliver product growth.
* You will lead a small team of device software product managers focused on delivering an amazing reading experience and a welcoming and personalized book buying experience.
** The Skillset:
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* Required:

* Have delivered a portfolio of consumer electronics devices, with hardware and software experience, ideally with a focus on content and media or in high growth space.
* Experience having led and managed product managers.
* Curious and actively staying ahead of competitive landscapes and industry trends.
* Experience with design and end user experience driving success of consumer devices, and know how to determine the most important user problems to…