Digital Product Manager, Translation Management Systems

Job Description

The Digital Product Manager, Translation Management Systems is responsible for setting, prioritizing, and accepting work generated by cross-functional teams to ensure the most valuable implementation of Translation Management Systems (TMS) to deliver on Agilent’s vision for Digital Transformation.

The product manager serves as the bridge between customers, users, and the development team to ensure the TMS effectively manages processes that deliver high-quality translations across multiple languages and locales. Utilizing knowledge of digital best practices along with customer feedback, the product manager assesses value, develops business cases, and prioritizes the direction and outcome of releases, while continuously delivering beneficial product features.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Serve as key voice for TMS

• Define the product vision and roadmap for the TMS, aligning with overall business goals and user requirements

• Understand market trends in translation technology and identify opportunities for innovation within the TMS

• Set, prioritize, and accept work generated by cross-functional teams to ensure the most valuable implementation of the TMS

• Solve product-related problems, make decisions, and complete trade-off analysis to stay on track towards deliverable commitments

• Possess a fundamental understanding of end-to-end customer experience integration and dependencies

• Establish and monitor functional KPIs to report results and determine future direction

Lead development and release management for digital initiatives

• Collaborate with stakeholders, developers and project management during visioning and concept development of features while considering budget and resource constraints

• Coordinate discovery meetings with stakeholders, technical leads, and other product managers to clarify concepts and develop functional requirements

• Develop scope and define backlog items (capabilities/epics/user stories) that guide the development team using scrum & Agile methodologies

• Coordinate functional and data dependencies with other digital product managers

• Attend regular stand-up, grooming, and retrospective meetings

• Regularly communicate progress of development to management and stakeholders

• Participate in sprint testing to validate features and gather feedback for continuous improvement

• Drive UAT test cases and defects to resolution, in coordination with development team

• Represent team for release cutover, go-live and sign-off

• Participate in stabilization to monitor status of defects and to move unresolved issues to backlog

• Develop and maintain an appropriately prioritized backlog of user stories for implementation

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree or equivalent.

• Minimum 4+ years of hands-on experience as a Product Manager for a digital product, platform, or SaaS solution (not limited to localization or TMS).

• Demonstrated ownership of product vision, roadmap, backlog, and release lifecycle in an Agile environment.

• Experience translating business and user needs into product requirements, prioritizing features, and making trade-off decisions.

• Proven track record of collaborating with IT, UX, and cross-functional teams to deliver new product features or enhancements.

Preferred:

• Experience launching new digital products or major features from concept through go-live.

• Experience with stakeholder management, business case development, and product strategy.

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