Chief Product Officer - be a part of our journey!

Purpose of the role

Chief Product Officer in Element Logic is the person who is responsible for Element Logic’s product & service portfolio. Chief Product Officer makes sure Element Logic’s products and services offering is within the scope of our strategy, provide value to different type of markets and customers and aligned to various stakeholders needs. A Chief Product Officer in Element Logic needs to hold relevant experience and a diverse skillset required to ensure business objectives are met in harmony with the product department in alignment.

In all, the role highly requires product-centric and commercial mind-set. Someone who will perfect the digital experience for our customers by cutting-edge products and services with understand of customer pains, value-based pricing, investment, and complex environments.

Duties and responsibilities
Chief Product officer needs to align the product and services with the overall objectives and goals of our company, and further align the business goals with customer needs through products and services.

To facilitate product-led growth, a CPO looks into some core tasks:

Product Vision
Product vision is the core idea of the product. What is the value and mission of the product? How will the product change impact customers? Some of the primary vision aspects include making sure the product is adaptive to customers.

Product Strategy
Create a product strategy and roadmap to fulfil and meet various KPIs. These will measure product performance. Factors such as features, business climate, customer needs, and competition need to be considered while creating a strategy. The goal is to connect technology with go-to-market channels and speed product performance.

Product Discovery & Innovation
Lead product innovation from ideation, screening, testing to implementation and define strategy for product innovation.

Product team management & building
Our CPO needs to make sure product team collaboration is on point. It includes communicating company goals clearly, developing a clear vision, outcome, and ensuring timely delivery of value-adding product and services. Organize and build an exceptional product organization, mentor, and inspire the members of the team to do their best work and grow in their capabilities and career. This role is the one who coordinates various departments to improve product creation.

Product Marketing
Element Logic`s CPO also needs to make sure that product promotion and sales are on point. The product needs to meet the right customers, appeal to them, have them convert, and even remain loyal. Furthermore in deep collaboration with Global M&C, they need to use product analytics data, communicate rightly, understand and work on customer feedback.

Product Analysis
Our CPO is required to understand insights on products and customer needs. This needs to be driven by customer research data. They need to plan strategies that are in line with KPIs and customer metrics. Continuous customer research will help product teams plan in a better manner.

Product Skills
They also need to have a product-focused skillset that will help them “ace” the job. A chief product officer must upskill to meet the various requirements of the team. This includes, agile framework, UX design and more. This can be demonstrated by a strong track record of building Software products with their product teams. Must be genuinely interested in understanding the “customer problem” and bring that to our tech teams to find innovative and viable solution.

Stakeholder Management
Manage relevant internal and external stakeholders on C-level and ensure a successful cooperation
Good understanding and collaboration of interface to tech team
Needs to evangelize and anchor product management in the company

Desired competences:

• Minimum of a bachelor's degree, preferrable master's or doctoral degree in business, economics, Software product management, computer science, product marketing, or other related subjects.
• Significant experience in product discovery and management, highly preferred from leading-edge companies and scale-ups in the software sector.

Favorable characteristics:

• Ability to build up structures and a product organisation
• Software pricing experience
• Product marketing experience
• Product training experience
• Leadership and change management abilities
• Commercial understanding and mindset
• Communication and public speaking skills
• Problem solving and decision-making abilities
• Strong interpersonal skills and empathy
• Creativity
• Teamwork skills
• Good at leading yourself and others
• Positive mood and a good relationship builder

Communication skills:

A CPO needs to have good communication skills. Since there is a lot of collaboration involved in the product management sphere, it is important to have excellent communication.

Great skills in English, both written and oral.

Administrative/Managerial Responsibilities:

The CPO is direct manager to various kinds of product management functions, including but not limited to product managers, UX/UI, product marketeers, product trainer, product analytics etc.

This person is responsible for recruiting and building relevant functions/roles within the product organisation.

Does reading this make you curious, and wanting to know more?
Please apply, or contact Recruitment Director - Beate Hall-Hofsø at: +47 99 38 31 86 or beate.hall-hofso@elementlogic.no, or Recruitment Lead - Steinar Instefjord at: +47 94 85 72 02 or steinar.instefjord@elementlogic.no. All applications will be treated confidential if needed.

Please do not send your CV or application to these mail adresses, as it will be deleted upon receival.

Be You, In Your Element.

At Element Logic our people are our greatest asset. We want people to be in their element, so we recognise, celebrate, and cultivate the strength that is our diversity. We provide equal opportunity and welcome applications from candidates regardless of their age, race, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, language, national origin, mental and physical abilities, religious and political affiliations, life phase or family status. We want a workplace where people thrive with their unique abilities, perspectives and life experiences.