Product Managers are strategic leaders responsible for driving the development, launch, and ongoing support of a company's products. They focus on long-term vision, market trends, and identifying new opportunities. Work close with Product Owner to define specific incremental improvements to be manages in different squads.
Responsibilities:
- Analyze market trends, monitor competitors, and identify opportunities in organizational processes. - Supporting product sales or other product goals established.
- Set ambitious and clear product vision and communicate it effectively to stakeholders, the team, and the rest of the unit. - End to end team output strategy from inception to production.
- Collaboration with stakeholders to ensure digital vision and products alignment with value streams.
- Accountable for product specific KPIs once solution enters production and communicate regular tracking to stakeholders.
- Utilize market and industry knowledge to translate user needs into user stories and acceptance criteria for their team.
- Maintain a backlog 3 to 4 sprints ahead of the team.
- Works closely with CPO to establish each product's business value and support messaging, communication, and customer outreach as necessary.
- Integrates usability studies and research into product requirements to enhance user satisfaction and ensure customer driven design.
Previous Experience:
- 2 to 3 years of experience in roles with similar responsibilities.
- Leadership:
- Effectively manages own time and provides visibility into ongoing work.
- Recognizes when teammates encounter difficulties in their tasks and readily offers support.
- Demonstrates initiative by taking action without constant direction from others.
- Agile:
- Applies values of quality, response to change, customer centricity in the way of working.
- Works iteratively and incrementally as standard.
- Understands the differences between agile and traditional practices and can select the best fit for context.
- Design:
- Knows good design practices (e.g., design patterns, known structures, industry solutions) that are applicable to their role.
- Identifies opportunities or issues to apply best practices.
- Optimization:
- Designs solutions with performance in mind.
- Performs proof of concept on potential solutions to assess their impact.
- Identifies performance issues in day-to-day operations and alerts the team.
- Analyzes technologies or methods that have the potential to complement, improve, or optimize the solution.
- Offers optimization solutions that positively impact metrics (e.g., turnaround or processing time, resource consumption).
- Technical Tutoring:
- Has the necessary knowledge to solve many of the technical impediments the development team encounters.
- Knows and suggests good practices, novel technologies, and methodologies with the potential to add value to the project.
- Promotes discussions on the best ways to approach a solution.
- Provides ongoing on-the-job coaching to junior team members.