Product Manager
Northbrook, IL, United States
To support the intersection of three main components of the successful Product Strategy: (1) defining and owning the product direction, (2) building and growing a product team and (3) establishing the product organization and processes.
Product Vision & Strategy:
- Use the previously established product vision in concert with deep market understanding to inform the product strategy
- Evaluate market needs against UL’s and competitors’ unique abilities to address them
- Support and contribute to a go-to-market strategy, describing how value will be delivered to the customer/user, how the product is differentiated from the competition, and what the business model should be Create Requirements in Aha
- Collect and validate user persona’s
- Prioritize product functions and features into a product roadmap
- Monitor a set of product goals, outcomes and corresponding metrics to continually evaluate against
- Evangelize and communicate the product vision, strategy and goals internally across the organization, as well as externally with client users
Team Building & Culture:
- Actively model and promote a set of desired behaviors aligned with UL’s CBS
- Take ownership of own career and professional development by documenting and communicating career aspirations and any associated development needs to their manager
- Support career development needs of direct reports, by clearly defining expectations for their current role, actively soliciting their career aspirations and helping close any gaps
Product Organization & Process:
- Support an efficient cross-functional matrix structure to enable effective product development lifecycle
- Execute a robust set of processes to power all parts of the product development lifecycle from research/discovery to release management and product support
- Leverage a standard set of product management tools to be used across the product organization at each of the stages of the lifecycle
- Facilitation skills – ability to lead small to medium groups of internal and external stakeholders towards desired outcomes in order to meet business objectives
- Interview skills – ability to conduct discovery sessions with clients. prospects and stakeholders in order to diagnose business opportunities, elicit requirements and conduct other types of research
- Strong communication and presentation (PowerPoint) skills
- Product management tools – product design (e.g. Invision, Zeplin), development task management (e.g. Jira,
- Azure DevOps), documentation and knowledge (e.g. Confluence, SharePoint), collaboration (e.g. Microsoft
- Teams, Slack), roadmap and portfolio management (e.g. Aha!, Daptiv)
- University Degree (Equivalent to Bachelor's degree) in Computer Science, Business, or a related discipline
- 5 years or more of related discipline experience or demonstrated competency
- Working with remote teams is highly preferred
- Project management certification is a plus
- Mission: For UL Solutions, corporate and social responsibility isn’t new. Making the world a safer, more secure and sustainable place has been our business model for the last 130 years and is deeply engrained in everything we do.
- People: Ask any UL Solutions employee what they love most about working here, and you’ll almost always hear, “the people.” Going beyond what is possible is the standard at UL Solutions. We’re able to deliver the best because we employ the best.
- Interesting work: Every day is different for us here as we eagerly anticipate the next innovation that our customers’ create. We’re inspired to take on the challenge that will transform how people live, work and play. And as a global company, in many roles, you will get international experience working with colleagues around the world.
- Grow & achieve: We learn, work and grow together with targeted development, reward and recognition programs as well as our very own UL University that offers extensive training programs for employees at all stages, including a technical training track for applicable roles.
- Total Rewards: We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career . The estimated salary range for this position is $120,000 to $150,000 and is based on multiple factors, including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, geographical location, as well as other factors. This position is eligible for annual bonus compensation with a target payout of 20% of the base salary. This position also provides health benefits such as medical, dental and vision; wellness benefits such as mental and financial health; and retirement savings (401K) commensurate with the standard rewards offered in each individual location or country. We also provide full-time employees with paid time off including vacation (15 days), holiday including floating holidays (12 days) and sick time off (72 hours).
Internal applicants with questions related to the Total Rewards for this position should submit a ticket via askHR for more insights.
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Working at UL Solutions is an exciting journey that twists and turns daily. We thrive in the twists and revel in the turns. This is our every day. This is our normal.
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The application deadline for this position is 6/10/2025
A global leader in applied safety science, UL Solutions (NYSE: ULS) transforms safety, security and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers in more than 110 countries. UL Solutions delivers testing, inspection and certification services, together with software products and advisory offerings, that support our customers’ product innovation and business growth. The UL Mark serves as a recognized symbol of trust in our customers’ products and reflects an unwavering commitment to advancing our safety mission. We help our customers innovate, launch new products and services, navigate global markets and complex supply chains, and grow sustainably and responsibly into the future. Our science is your advantage.
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Annual bonus Annual Bonus Compensation Bonus compensation Career development Career development support Collaborative culture Extensive training Extensive training programs Health benefits Holidays Interesting work International experience Paid Time Off Professional development Recognition programs Retirement savings Reward and recognition programs Sick time Targeted development Training programs Vacation Wellness benefits
Tasks- Build product team
- Communicate product vision
- Create product requirements
- Define product direction
- Establish product organization
- Evaluate market needs
- Monitor product goals
- Portfolio management
- Support go-to-market strategy
Aha Azure Azure DevOps Certification Certification Services Collaboration Communication Computer Confluence Cross-functional Collaboration Daptiv Discovery Documentation Facilitation Go-To-Market Strategy Inspection International Experience Interviewing InVision Jira Market Analysis Market strategy Microsoft Teams PowerPoint Presentation Product Design Product Management Product Roadmapping Product Strategy Project Management Reports Research SharePoint Slack Software Sustainability Task Management Team building Technical Training Testing Training User Persona Development Zeplin
Experience5 years
EducationBachelor's Bachelor's degree Business Computer Science Equivalent Management Related discipline University Degree
CertificationsProject Management Certification
TimezonesAmerica/Anchorage America/Chicago America/Denver America/Los_Angeles America/New_York Pacific/Honolulu UTC-10 UTC-5 UTC-6 UTC-7 UTC-8 UTC-9