Product Manager

Role Purpose

Responsibilities

• Initiate, define, plan and manage the roll out of the product features and initiatives that you own.
• Work closely both with a dedicated engineering team and cross-functional partners from across the organization
• Meet defined milestones and delivery dates. Own weekly and monthly reporting on the state of the initiatives you own.
• Deep-dive core growth and profitability post-launch metrics to uncover business-driving trends and patterns.
• Drive adoption growth of rolled out solutions, assess open opportunities to further enhance the customer experience and remove friction points.
• Work with your functional/departmental stakeholders, understand priorities and translate into priorities for the technical team.
• Turn high level business requirements into technical specifications/stories in a collaborative manner
• Create an execution plan that balances priorities, cost, schedule, tradeoffs
• Establish transparency around execution, risk and issues
• Work with team to deliver a product that is stable, scalable, reliable, performant & Work with team to operate the production product.
• Work with stakeholders and leadership to develop technical roadmap aligned with growth strategies. & Suggest improvements and innovative ideas to solve problems
• Carries out root/cause analysis in complex problems and can development and implement recommendations
• Take lead of scrum teams, defining the product vision, roadmap, and growth opportunities, communicating with stakeholders throughout the project
• Work with internal and external contacts to analyze needs and align product roadmap to strategic goals
• Keep up with agile/scrum standard methodologies and trends
• Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product
• Develop detailed product feature specifications and ensure the development teams clearly understand them
• Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics, and themes to ensure work aligns with product strategy
• Actively mitigate roadblocks impacting successful team completion of release/sprint goals
• Lead the product-release plans and set expectations for delivery of new functionalities
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT, Engineering or related field
• MBA or Certifications in Product Management preferred, but not essential
• 4+ years of strong experience owning and delivering digital products
• Strong relationships building skills; experience managing stakeholders and collaborating with partners to drive cross functional programs and influence teams in multiple locations / time zones
• Team orientation and willingness to roll up sleeves to solve complex, dynamic challenges
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with different functional groups, developers, business owners, and senior business leaders
• Previous experience in e-commerce, start-ups or similar dynamic digital environment