Technical Product Manager

PMT

The role – what we expect you to do day to day

• Be customer obsessed: develop & provide the organization with a deep appreciation for customer needs, the ecosystem and the key market dynamics
• Systems analysis and design: gain in-depth understanding of the product platform and ecosystem around it. Prepare technical artefacts for Engineering covering data flows, sequence diagrams, API and other interface specifications
• Backlog management: Define roadmap to support the delivery of objectives. Turn system designs into features and stories that can be actioned by Engineering
• Lead story elaboration, including creation of detailed, comprehensive acceptance criteria
• Provide technical analysis of application software to ensure that business and functional requirements can be met
• Manage strategic alignment across teams: working with stakeholders, ensure backlogs are properly prioritized and refined according to anticipated business value & measurable outcomes
• Agile Mindset: advocate for taking an agile approach to product development through all activities from defining an epic to writing acceptance criteria on a user story
• Measure outcomes & seek continuous improvements: Evaluate & seek to improve existing practices, metrics, and roles to continually optimize

All About You and What you need to bring:

• Several years of product management or new product development and experience shipping high-quality products. Understands and can explain the business context and the associated customer use cases
• Experience managing highly technical products, for example a technical platform or some API services
• Deep knowledge of software systems design and architecture. Technical savviness essential
• Knowledge of key management and cryptography is desirable
• Experience in Lean Product management
• Comprehensive experience in agile delivery methodologies (scrum, Kanban, etc.), CI/CD and modern DevOps based PDLC and SDLC.
• Track record of successful delivery of product features from design, development, deployment and customer integration
• Proficient at grooming user stories, features and epics, setting entrance/exit criteria and prioritizing a platform product backlog
• Data driven – ability to define measurable and SMART leading and lagging metrics
• Thrives in a highly collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts globally- across multiple regions. Recognize discordant views and take part in constructive dialog to resolve them
• Ability to engage with numerous stakeholders on existing product capabilities and potential co-development opportunities or dependencies
• Ability to operate in an environment with ambiguity. Able to find people and information and to bring stakeholders into the product journey
• Improve team processes that accelerate delivery, drive innovation, lower costs, and improve quality
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal