Director - Product Management - Innovation - Symantec - Mountain View

Job description
Director of Product Innovation will drive new concept development processes working with engineering to, define, evaluate, and create a portfolio of new product concepts. Primary goal for the Innovation director is to provide thought and strategic leadership in crafting the deliverables
- Lead rapid prototyping and piloting of new consumer experiences as part of a highly dynamic, lean, and multi-disciplinary team to validate hypotheses and new product concepts
- Integrate broad knowledge of product concepts in emerging spaces to develop viewpoints that inform internal development
- Identify and collaborate with internal and external technology partners to drive concept development
Work closely with the research and development function to complete the innovation lifecycle and define and evolve the incubation innovation portfolio. Based on incubation results and market insight, advise Strategy, Engineering and Product regarding potential technology investment opportunities.

Qualifications
•BS with minimum 12-15 years of overall experience or MS or higher with minimum overall experience in advanced product planning work with leading technology companies.
•High tech or technology industry and product exposure: 7 + yrs
•Innovation and creative work : 8-10 years
•Critical, creative and strategic thinking capability
•Understanding new concept generation process
•Understanding insight generation process
•Strategic framework for concept generation
•Consumer research methodologies
•Ability to run ideation sessions
•Ability to synthesize market and customer insights and generate solution requirements to solve critical customer jobs
•Excellent communication skills and ability to synthesize and articulate complex concepts targeted at multiple audiences
•Passion for technology and good understanding of current technology landscape and issues
•Ability to create compelling creative story telling
•Ability to understand business issues for product development

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