What We Do:

Uptake is a Chicago-based predictive analytics SaaS platform provider that empowers major industry leaders to optimize performance, reduce asset failures and enhance safety. At Uptake, we combine our strengths—machine learning, analytics, data visualization and software development—with the expertise of our industrial partners. The result is enormous savings in development time and resources for Uptake’s partners and a proven industrial grade software platform that delivers value to partners and their end customers. 

What You’ll Do:

 A Product Lead is broadly responsible for ensuring that our development activities align with and support the company's overarching business strategy and are consistently aimed at discovering and delivering product evolutions that are valuable, usable and feasible.

 You will be expected to grow the value and utility of your product(s) in a dynamic, fast-moving data marketplace, with its success governed and measured by product-specific KPIs. To succeed in this role, you must possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy, a big-picture vision, and the personal drive and charisma to make that vision a reality, largely through the work of others.

This is a key strategic leadership role so expectations are high and outstanding presence and communications skills are a must.

In this role you will:

• Lead the discovery, design, development, and delivery of products for our industry partners
• Serve as the Product Owner for pilot deliverables
• Work with Business, Data Science, Design, Engineering, and other cross functional teams to identify and implement targeted industry solutions
• Create clear and measurable KPIs, goals and objectives, each related to the creation and enhancement of timely, high-quality products that support critical business objectives and multiple stakeholders.
• Assist any direct reports with ongoing prioritization and resource allocation to ensure that KPIs are effectively delivered.
• Promote awareness of product teams’ plans, insights and accomplishments though scorecards and other activities in order to facilitate cooperation across departments and to build a highly performing, highly motivated team.
• Participate with management team on strategy, budgeting and capacity planning.
• Create and foster career development and growth paths for team members in alignment with company, product and personal objectives.
• Partner with cross-functional leaders to refine practices, resolve conflicts, set policy and remove impediments for product development teams.
• Partner with User Experience and Engineering leads on research and discovery practices that allow for rapid concept testing to ensure we deploy production-develop capabilities against proven product ideas.

Qualifications:

• Ability to lead, inspire, and develop the leadership skills of others.
• 8+ years product management/product development experience.
• Significant experience creating lucrative consumer-facing web applications that help users solve important problems.
• Commitment to and hands-on familiarity with SCRUM or other agile development methodologies.
• Excellent critical thinking skills and judgment.
• Highly self-directed team player.
• Commitment to rapid discovery of minimum viable products, and to iterative testing cycles to sort out the most lucrative ideas and continually improve them.
• Excellent communications skills with an innate ability to empathize with and relate to stakeholders at all levels of the organization.