Product Associate at Asset and Equity Group

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborating with prospective users and clients to understand and anticipate their needs and translate them into product requirements
• Evaluate promotional plans to ensure that they are consistent with product line strategy and that the message is effectively conveyed
• Gain a deep understanding of customer experience, identify and fill product gaps and generate new ideas that grow market share, improve customer experience and drive growth.
• Work closely with Tech teams to deliver with quick time-to-market and optimal resources
• Outline a product timeline and oversee the project’s successful execution.
• Create and manage budgets for the product.
• Develop clear user stories, detailed feature specifications, tasks, acceptance criteria and timelines
• Prioritize projects and ensure the most important work is being delivered
• Advocate for the product, offer insights, answer questions, and provide clarifications to ensure the vision is being executed
• Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product
• Act as a key contributor to product design and the overall user experience
• Collaborate with a team of designers, writers, developers, quality assurance analysts and other subject matter experts
• Communicate project status updates to all key stakeholders
• Utilize project management software and ensure all required updates are documented effectively
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with team members across the organization
• Managing the product backlog and prioritizing them based on changing requirements
• Monitoring and evaluating product progress at each stage of the process
• Liaising with the product team and end-users to deliver updates
• Develop detailed product feature specifications and ensure they’re clearly understood by the development teams
• Actively mitigate roadblocks impacting successful team completion of release/sprint goals
• Lead the product-release plans and set expectations for delivery of new functionalities
• Serve as the product ambassador internally and externally, sharing knowledge and answering questions related to the product
• Collaborate with stakeholders to craft vision and concept development of a product
• Drive product launches including working with M&C team, executives, and other product management team members
• Represent the company by visiting customers to solicit feedback on company products and services
• Determine the type of advertising and marketing content, such as TV, radio, print, digital or social media, that needs to be created and distributed.
• Develop and maintain relationships with external vendors whose products or services will be needed for the product.
• Other duties as assigned by the management.

Key Deliverables

• Define the product strategy and roadmap.
• Develop the core positioning and messaging for the product
• Perform product demos to customers
• Set pricing to meet revenue and profitability goals
• Deliver a monthly revenue forecast
• Develop sales tools and collateral
• Propose an overall budget to ensure success
• Brief and train the sales force at monthly sales meetings
• Must be conversant with the following product stages:
• Idea generation (Ideation)
• Product definition.
• Prototyping.
• Initial design.
• Validation and testing.

Requirements

• Candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree with 3 - 5 years work experience.