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How would you help us take ownership of our product-led growth strategy?Keepit is looking for a Common Platform Product Lead to join our Product Team in Copenhagen, Denmark.Keepit is a fast-growing IT scale-up with 22+ years of experience in software and data protection. Our mission is to help companies around the world protect and manage their cloud-based data. Our team is both academically and culturally diverse, and we have more than thirty different nationalities working together to promote trust and security in a world transforming towards new levels of digitalization. In 2020 Keepit raised $30 million in funding to fuel the growth and position Keepit as the category leader in the Backup-as-a-Service market. Keepit covers a broad client base of major corporations and institutions across all sectors and industries.We are growing fast as a company, and our product is the cornerstone of our global expansion. In the not-so-distant future, we believe all software will be delivered as a service, and it is our conviction that all SaaS data be backed up by a dedicated, neutral, and immutable backup vendor. This is the role we foresee for Keepit as we grow.As our new Common Platform Product Lead, you will help us evolve and expand our product offering and continuously refine the Common Platform, which delivers our core functionality for Keepit’s service and drives Learn-Try-Buy for maximum business impact.Central tasks as Common Platform Product Lead with Keepit will include:· Leading the strategic direction and continuously feeding the roadmap for common platform development through discovery efforts together with engineering and product design.· Connecting and ensuring collaboration between highly-skilled teams through all phases of our common platform development from product discovery to release and go to market.· Manage the platform lifecycle including commercial and strategic aspects of the product management process.· Help us unleash the power of Keepit and reduce the friction by continuously evolving and improving our product to stay secure while letting our users interact with their data in better and simpler ways.· Help us drive the strategic change from being a data backup vendor to becoming a data management provider.As Common Platform Product Lead, you will be joining the Product Team led by our VP of Product, Henrik Brusgaard. You will be working from our Copenhagen office located on the 7th floor of Parken, the national stadium of Denmark, with a beautiful view of the park and the sea. At Keepit, we take pride in being an equal opportunity employer and recognize how being a diverse workplace strengthens our product, customer relationships, and work culture.A fair and transparent recruitment processWe know it is just as important that you choose us as the other way around. We believe it to be crucial to cultivate a culture where you feel you belong this starts already in the recruitment process. Therefore, to be fair and transparent, we want to present the criteria you are assessed by if you choose to let your curiosity fall on us.Product management: We are looking for a candidate with solid product management competencies covering all steps from product strategy and discovery to delivery and go to market. Experience working with engineering and UX/design to develop software products as well as project- and stakeholder management skills will be essential to this role.2. SaaS Savvy: The ideal candidate understands software development and cloud technologies, and will have managed software as a service products before. For this position, experience with the development of shared functionality in a user-facing platform whether B2B or B2C will be a great advantage.3. Business Mindset: The candidate we are looking for is commercially minded and understands the market and how our business works. The ability to analyze product opportunities to determine customer value and business viability is critical in this role.4. People Skills: Product development is a team sport, and the candidate we are looking for has strong communication and interpersonal skills and knows how to facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration and get things done in a distributed organiz
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