Product Manager Jobs

Entity:

Innovation & Engineering

Job Family Group:

IT&S Group

Job Summary:

At bp, we’re re-imagining energy for people and our planet. With operations working across almost every part of the energy system, we’re owning the way in reducing carbon emissions and developing more sustainable methods for solving the energy challenge. We’re a team with multi-layered strengths of engineers, scientists, traders and business professionals determined to find answers to problems. We are looking for product leads with well engineering experience to join our team. This will be a great opportunity for an accomplished well-engineer looking to grow in a more technology focused role or expand their technical experience specifically within product management.

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Are you passionate about solving complex customer and business problems at scale?

Do you dream of well-designed and intuitive products and customer experiences?

Do you want to be the one who introduces change to help tens of millions of customers make more thoughtful energy choices for themselves, their families, and the planet?

Do you want to change the way people access and consume secure, sustainable energy?

If you answered yes to all these questions, then product management at bp may be a fit for you.

Product Management at bp is a booming, vibrant craft that requires re imagining the status quo, finding value creation opportunities, and driving innovative and sustainable customer experiences through technology.

The Product Manager is responsible for the definition and development of a digital product, ensuring customer need, argument, strategic alignment, feature reuse and innovation are led throughout the Product Lifecycle. Taking ownership for the global delivery, this role will lead country or domain teams to drive scale and new market entry of new product offerings.

Working closely with business leads and managers, you will be responsible for aligning multiple product work streams to a single coherent vision, ensuring revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met as well as ensuring that the product supports bp’s overall strategy and goals. This is a hands-on role with the expectation that you will bring day to day accountability and performance management to the product. This role is in an exciting new area that is responsible for creating new products and solving difficult customer problems.

Key Accountability And Experience By Skill Categories

Human centered:

• Ability to immerse yourself in knowing your internal and/or external customer(s) needs to re-imagine and innovate product solutions
• Work closely with business teams, leaders, science, and engineering teams in an agile development environment to launch new products, platforms, features and experiences which delight our customers
• Knows how to bring customer problem discovery and user experience into the behaviors of the team and apply them optimally
• Strong customer-centric approach and can demonstrate how they have previously built customer need and value into their products
• Research key customer trends and competitor activity in relation to the relevant business area to build a knowledge hub to continually improve product performance
• Experience in collaborating with teams in using relevant agile frameworks, such as Scrum and Kanban
• Demonstrable track record of discovering customer needs and translating them into inspirational, innovative solutions and detailed product requirements

Business focused:

• As needed, supports the management of service outcomes with suppliers and partners who provide developers to augment your team
• You will be an owner a subset of product of features; making strategic product recommendations which are grounded in data and insights
• Familiarity with, at least 2 business cycles of experience with modeling product economics such as: CAC, NPV, ROIC, or other commercial measures
• Experience in data modelling and data analytics
• Collaborate with other product managers and business partners to create a compelling portfolio or product vision based on customer compassion, market research, regulatory guardrails, and the goals of the business to bring value
• You will lead the day-to-day product development schedule from design through to release for your specific portfolio of features, own the product life cycle, and define and monitor metrics that measure the success of the product
• Experience in data modeling and data analytics. Able to extract and analyze data using SQL and spreadsheets
• Experience in getting the best from existing partners and understand when and how to partner to build advantage in the market
• Provide visibility of delivery to internal and external partners, raising issues as required to drive product launches
• Partner daily with DevOps squads to develop and run digital applications, ensuring the voice of the customer is incorporated into the product team activity, maintaining an up-to-date delivery roadmap with a clear focus on business value
• Experience of business analytics and data platform design
• You will assist in shaping the product roadmap to bring the broader team’s vision to life by collaborating with a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, business partners, data professionals and other team members
• Solid understanding of SDLC practices, agile practices preferred
• Continually seeks to accelerate development strategically through external partnership or re-use of internal capabilities, including our venture portfolio, identifying ‘best of breed’ features and crafting a robust buy / build / partner strategy against the product roadmap
• Strong business-focused problem-solving skills
• You'll chip in towards crafting product vision and product roadmaps with an agile delivery approach in partnership with Tech while managing cyber, operational and/or regulatory risks

Technology driven:

• Experience of Service Design including commercial and business development considerations
• Familiarity with LEAN Product development and deliverables - business model canvases, lean product canvases
• You'll partner with your technology peers and to influence end-state architecture and drive secure, resilient, performant, and scalable technology solutions that solve material customer and business problems
• Ideally have a solid grasp of software-as-a-service, web services and application design
• Coordinate across collaborating software development teams to drive technology integration requirements and processes
• Experience of Software Development and Software Operations along with the concept of DevOps
• You'll be responsible to recommend technology investments decision by assessing opportunities for reusing enterprise solutions and building new ones with extensibility & enterprise scalability in mind
• Experience of handling security incidents and prioritizing backlogs, providing guidance and empowering the team to perform most effectively
• Familiarity with Design Thinking
• Strong knowledge and/or keen interest in emerging tools and technologies

Working with Leadership

• Ability to communicate, collaborate and influence effectively
• Guides teams to reflect and identify improvements and move them towards dedication, working with teams remove obstacles and resolve issues
• Acts as coach or mentor to guide teams and individuals to adopting an agile mentality and is seen as a leader in agile behaviors and practices
• You'll influence a broad set of collaborators across the enterprise to successfully deliver on your portfolio/product vision
• Effectively handle the planning, execution, delivery, and release of sophisticated cross-team engineering initiatives, establishing teams that continually perform at a high level
• You'll establish a long-term product portfolio strategy, informed by customer and business needs, to gain alignment, secure resources and overcome impediments to bring products to market
• You will influence and create culture with Engineers and UX designers to solve core customer needs. You’ll therefore need to demonstrate the ability to successfully influence customers without formal authority, leading cross functional teams across geographies and business units
• Be able to demonstrate technical fluency; comfort understanding and discussing technology concepts, schedule tradeoffs and new opportunities with technical team members

Key characteristics of product leaders:

Intellectually curious: comfortable navigating between the big ideas and executional realities to create an achievable strategic product vision. Comfortable with ambiguity, a hunger to learn and a seeker of new challenges.

Communicator & Doer: comfortable influencing a group of executives as well as communicating your product vision clearly to your associates and partners. You can be open to different communication styles and listen carefully to diverse sets of ideas.

Do-er: you're biased toward action and are willing to make commitments and trade-offs with other leaders to remove impediments for your team; you are a leader obsessed with delivering valuable in an iterative way focusing on minimum viable products that, ultimately, lead to minimum lovable experiences.

Passionate & customer focus: you care about growing others and bringing them together around what's possible. You have a desire and ability to connect with our external or internal customers to fully understand their needs and build long lasting relationships.

Learner: you have an appetite to learn new things or new technologies all while exhibiting humbleness when exploring unknown technologies; you will seek for internal solutions

Standout colleague: you enjoy working with diverse people and driving the team toward a common goal. You are also able to coach others and be a mentor in product development. You are an expert in guiding pods/ sprint team towards outcomes for customers and the business. Uses human-centered design, analytics, business modeling and iterative MVPs. Provides people leadership, team leadership, and models cross-discipline/org influence.

Essential skills:

• Familiar with Landmark EDT applications (i.e. Compass, WellPlan, StressCheck)
• Business, Economics, STEM degree, MBA or equivalent experience
• Minimum 3 years of Well Engineering experience with an operator

Travel Requirement

Negligible travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Business Acumen, Commercial acumen, Communication, Data Analysis, Data cleansing and transformation, Data domain knowledge, Data Integration, Data Management, Data Manipulation, Data Sourcing, Data strategy and governance, Data Structures and Algorithms, Data visualization and interpretation, Digital Security, Extract, transform and load, Problem Solving

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We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with disabilities may request a reasonable accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us to request accommodations.

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