Senior Product Manager

Job Description:

• Product vision and road map (now, near, and future timeline).
• Product strategy: target audience (end-users), problems candidates trying to solve, value propositions.
• Customer Client insights through end-user research activities
• Product features and functions through product management backlog and the authoring of user stories with the business product owner
• Product key performance Indicators (KPIs) or success criteria including a metrics dashboard
• Product decision and direction rationales
• Product wins (success stories)
• Continuous shipping of product features to improve upon the minimal viable product produced by the product team through user-centred design processes and agile (scrum) delivery methodologies
• Product risk mitigation strategies
• Communications to senior management level including executive summaries, and product status updates as required.

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:
Relationship Management - 35%:

• Demonstrated experience in communication and mediation skills with business teams and core team members to ensure Client products are progressing according to schedule or product road map
• Demonstrated experience in team building, consensus building and relationship management skills
• Experience with strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of products - Client, Alpha, Beta, Live or similar delivery methodologies

Product Management - Knowledge, Risks, Issues, Scheduling And Reporting - 35%:

• Experience with identification to risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
• bility to articulate and prioritize issues and risks at program management and senior executive level and recommend mitigation strategies for decision makers
• bility to create and maintain a product road map which describes how your product is likely to evolve over time.
• bility to deliver on a product with a balanced team (product owner, user experience designers, developers) utilizing Agile (SCRUM) delivery methodologies. Scrum master experience is preferred.
• Experience gathering and developing requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed product schedule and/or integrated plan
• Experience with product program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels;
• Experience with participating in steering committee and stakeholder forums.

Technical Skills - 10%:

• Basic Knowledge in Microsoft Azure cloud platform
• Knowledge of online collaboration tools such as MIRO, Atlassian Confluence and Trello, Microsoft Office 365, Google Drive, Zoom, Slack and Microsoft Teams
• Knowledge of Backlog Management tools such as JIRA, Azure DevOps, Pivotal Tracker

Soft skills - 20%:

• Strong interpersonal, negotiation skills, presentation, verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• team player with a track record for meeting deadlines and delivering high profile, high risk, complex initiatives.

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