Product Manager at Insidify

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As the product development lead, you act as a middleman between the CTO and Senior software developer, documentation lead and testing lead to define software requirements and take the lead on operational and technical projects using excellent problem-solving skills and a hands-on experience in development and agile methodologies. You work in the capacity of a Scrum Master, leading sprints and stand up sessions.

Your goal will be to manage the development of high-quality software that is aligned with user needs and business goals. You will facilitate daily or weekly scrums, stand-ups, and meetings to monitor product progress and resolve any issues the team may be experiencing in order to meet product milestones and deadlines. You should have a proven leadership skill, the ability to think critically and problem-solve, and a track-record of ensuring project milestones and deadlines are met.

Essential Responsibilities and Duties:

• Facilitate daily or weekly scrums, stand-ups, and meetings to monitor product progress and resolve any issues the team may be experiencing
• Ensure that the members of the team are well trained into following the values of the Scrum framework and Agile practices
• Report bugs and errors to development teams and help troubleshoot issues
• Create project outlines and timelines and distribute responsibilities to team members
• Shape product team behavior through excellent management via the agile method
• Prepare design for all workflow, note procedures and perform integrated/ functionality tests on all implementation processes
• Remove project obstacles, develop solutions with team
• Ensure milestones are reached and deadlines are met throughout project lifecycle
• Ensure developed product meet the product guidelines and any regulatory specifications
• Research and analyze other competitors' product, as well as the new trends within the industry
• Regularly evaluates our products offerings to ensure they are still functional and request for potential changes or upgrades where necessary
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders, product users, and product owners
• Document progress and communicate to upper management and stakeholders
• Ensure successful delivery of products while managing project risk, quality, delivery, scope, schedule and budget
• Regularly evaluates the products offered by the company to ensure they are still functional
• Drive the product team members in the design, development and delivery of research and development solutions to customers
• Take full responsibility for successful product delivery
• Determine new product specifications, production costs and production timeline
• Oversee design, documentation, implementation, QA testing, and validation of programming code and products
• Oversee documentation and testing team to execute test cases and analyse results

Qualification and Person Specification:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering or related field required
• Experience in playing the Scrum Master role for minimum one year for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory
• Scrum Master certification required, with PMP certification and equivalent
• Familiarity with common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and better development practices
• Full knowledge of fundamentals of iterative development
• Full knowledge of other processes and methodologies and can speak intelligently about them and leverage other techniques to provide value to a team/enterprise
• Understand basic fundamentals of software development processes and procedures
• Understand the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team
• Have a great knowledge of incremental delivery and the value of metrics
• Understand backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definitions
• Have good understanding of different data structures and algorithms to drive smart manufacturing and process delivery solutions
• Proven Java or PHP development skills

Required Skills and Competencies
All core competencies plus:

• Understanding of Agile Software Development
• Understanding of UI/UX principles and how users interact with multiple form factors, computing devices and the internet
• Understanding of software product development processes
• Use of tools for documentation such as Visio, Excel, Word, or other similar tools/frameworks
• Issues resolution
• Functional specifications documentation
• Troubleshooting skills
• Use of project management applications
• Workflow documentation
• Training skills
• Technical communication skill (Must possess the ability to explain intricate and complicated concepts and ideas)
• Stress management skills

Reporting Structure: In this position, you’ll report to the Chief Technology Officer (CTO)