Smart WiFi - Product Lead en Madrid

AREA DESCRIPTION

Telefonica's Commercial and Digital Office a global business division of Telefónica, one of the world’s largest telecoms companies with operations across 21 countries in Europe and Latin America and over 340 million customers. Customers know us through our commercial brands - Movistar, O2 and Vivo. As the Commercial and Digital technology arm of the company, we bring together all the areas of Telefónica that have been focused on innovation, from R&D through to venture capital, digital service development and global partnerships. We believe we can play a role in tackling pressing social needs using the transformative power of technology, from mobile payments to connected machines and eHealth, integrating it with our core offer. This way we can help our customers take the most out of technology.

MISSION
In Smart WiFi, we’re building the digital platform of tomorrow for Telefonica’s home customers. Starting with an enhanced connectivity experience, we are redefining the way we interact with our customers while helping our operating businesses differentiate and grow. Our aim is to become a digital services hub for our home customers. 

MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

The Smart WiFi product team is seeking a Product Lead to join us in Madrid. In this role, you will work on Telefonica's global Smart WiFi program to build services in the home connectivity space for our operating businesses in Europe and LATAM. You’ll be responsible for the product development side of the product org, taking inputs, prioritizing them and ensuring its development on time and budget through our product building process. 

As our Product Lead, you’ll lead a team of product owners and be responsible for the release of the product roadmap on our release cycles, working together with 3 global areas (CCDO, CDO, GCTIO) and 6 OBs in a complex but high impact project. 

Main duties and responsibilities:

- Take part on the construction of the product roadmap, together with the design and research teams, aligning the needs of our customers, our business partners and our technology providers and partners.
- Understanding customer needs is a vital aspect of this job. The team must participate and drive the work of the research team to identify needs that our product can fulfill. 
- There will be lots of focus on operational excellence: you'll have to follow our agile software prodcut development process and continuously work to improve it, locating and fixing bottlenecks and inneficiencies as well as anticipating risks and potential problems.
- Have a detailed view of the status of the different versions of the product and be able to communicate it clearly to senior management as well as to the delivery, ob, technology and operations teams 

EDUCATION REQUIRED

MSc in computer science or related field. MBA a plus.

SPECIFIC SKILLS

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong problem solving skills and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job done
• Ability to work in complex matrix organizations and manage virtual teams, aligning different parts of the organization to maximize project results

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE

• Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development and mobile technologies. Experience manging iOS / Android app development.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Proven track record of managing all aspects of a successful product throughout its lifecycle.
• Track record on multi-local organization and managing products available in different geographies 
• Skilled at working effectively with cross functional teams in a matrix organization
• Experience managing team

LANGUAGES

English, Spanish

If you join Telefónica

You join almost 100 years of history, you join a team of 106 nationalities present in more tan 35 countries. You join a team that works to connect people wherever they are. We are leading the digital revolution with the enthusiasm of the first day in all our businesses, creating the best digital ecosystem for our clients: network, IoT, cloud, security, innovation etc. Here, at Telefónica you count with everything you need to be the best you. We need people like you that wants to take this challenge of creating the Telefónica of tomorrow.

#WeAreInclusive

Our diversity makes us stronger and more competitive. There is a place for everyone, just the way we are. At Telefónica we have more than 125,000 people of 106 different nationalities, enrich yourself of this great opportunity.