Role Summary:
As a Product Manager, you will be entrusted with the end-to-end ownership of your product line. This pivotal role requires an individual with a blend of business, IT, and leadership skills, who can drive our strategic initiatives, balancing various trade-offs, maintaining the roadmap, and ensuring that the developed features deliver significant business value.
Key Responsibilities:
- Strategic Product Management: Create, sustain, and communicate the team's roadmap, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities. Regularly conduct market research and competitive analysis to inform your decision-making and strategic planning.
- Project Lifecycle Mastery: Proficient in all phases of the software/product development life cycle, demonstrating a deep understanding of both traditional waterfall and agile methodologies. Drive the entire process with a focus on product goals, go-to-market strategy, requirements elicitation, and product launch.
- Pipeline Planning and Maintenance: Plan and maintain a dynamic pipeline of initiatives, projects, and enhancements. Regularly review and prioritize these initiatives, considering business value, resource availability, and strategic alignment.
- Communicative Leadership: Facilitate planning, tracking, and scheduling software deliverables & reporting. Present daily/weekly progress reports and consistently engage with stakeholders to set goals & milestones as needed.
- Technical Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive technical artifacts like Data Flow diagrams, Entity Relationship diagrams, and Design Flow diagrams. This includes developing mock-ups & wireframes for enhancements, enabling clearer communication of requirements and design intent to development teams.
- Product Design and Usability: Collaborate with the UI/UX teams to ensure the product's user experience is intuitive, satisfying, and aligned with user and market needs. Use this collaborative approach to define features, write product/software specifications, facilitate user studies, iterate based on feedback, and make data-driven decisions.
- Quality Assurance and Testing: Work closely with the QA team to define test cases and scenarios. Participate in final module testing before deployment to production, ensuring developed features meet the specifications and are functional.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate effectively with various stakeholders to determine software requirements. Manage regular communications between development, cross-functional teams, and internal business units, ensuring a smooth, coordinated approach to product development.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity or a related field. A master's degree or equivalent professional qualification in a relevant field is preferred.
- A minimum of 6-8 years of proven experience in product management, with a background in UI/UX design & product development.
- Demonstrable experience in product lifecycle management within an agile framework. Scrum certification is preferable.
- Advanced-level proficiency in project management software like MS Project & JIRA is mandatory.
- Advanced-level proficiency in UI/UX designing tools is preferred.
- Strong organizational skills, capable of handling multiple tasks, meeting tight deadlines, and adapting to changing priorities.
- Excellent leadership, communication, negotiation, and project management skills are a must.
- Good critical thinking and problem-solving skills, with a demonstrated ability to manage and engage with stakeholders across functions.
- High level of personal integrity, and the ability to professionally handle confidential matters and demonstrate a high level of judgement and maturity.
- Fluency in English, and proficiency in additional languages relevant to the designated countries is highly preferred.