Job Openings Product Manager

About the job Product Manager

Responsibilities

Stakeholder communication and expectation management

  • Keep in mind the different views of various stakeholders and explain changes to them within their context
  • Facilitate decisions on scope, budget and timeline
  • Lead an empowered cross-functional team (UX designers & researchers, software developers, QA analysts & engineers)

Business acumen

  • Collaborate with the client and the team to determine the product context including vision, strategy and OKRs
  • Compile the business case for product discovery and development
  • Manage value, usability, technical feasibility and business viability risk
  • Data visualisation to derive business value
  • Market analysis and competitive positioning
  • Business process mapping

Lean product process

  • Product owner support (the product owner is client-side and often inexperienced with making software)
  • Product discovery
  • Release planning and execution
  • Lean analytics

Project and financial management

  • Project budget management
  • Resource planning
  • Project plan update with dependencies in mind
  • Financial updates, invoicing and forecasting
  • Project risk management

Scrum master

  • Remove impediments to product development
  • Facilitate retrospectives and implement Agile principles

Skills

Firstly, you need the skills to take on the responsibilities specified above. You also need a love for

  • teams of creative and happy people
  • closely collaborative innovation
  • creating value through lean principles
  • being adaptive rather than reactive

Qualifications

  • Minimum 5 years of work experience
  • Minimum 2 years experience in Agile software development
  • One of the following
    • Minimum 2 years experience as a project manager
    • Minimum 2 years experience as a tech Product Manager
    • Minimum 2 years experience as a Business Analyst

Nice to have

If you tick all the required boxes, the following things will give you an edge:

  • If you've started your own business before (it does not matter whether it worked out or not)
  • An inclination to mentor others

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