Product Manager at Buffer Media

Summary of Role;

The Product Manager is responsible for gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, and working closely with engineering, sales and marketing to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction.

Successful candidate’s mission will be to develop and/or improve our products for users in emerging markets (gaming, education, chatbots and other future services)

Candidate will work on:

• Defining the needs of our clients located in emerging countries in order to define the product vision;
• Coordinating a team of designers and developers, preparing the product specifications and following their implementation;
• Measuring the impact of our products and services.

Responsibilities

• Product conceptualization, planning and execution of product cycles in a strategic manner.
• Have a deep understanding of product requirements and create a long- term vision and strategy making sure it aligns with organisational goals.
• Create buy-in for the product vision both internally and with key external partners
• Define schedule and accurately estimate task duration to develop and maintain a realistic schedule.
• Translate product strategy into detailed requirements, tasks and prototypes.
• Make Technical Decisions. Identify the Important outcomes, evaluate alternatives, look for the best/simplest pattern, decide how to apply existing patterns to a given problem.
• Have a deep understanding of the UI/UX of the product, identify and fill product gaps and generate new ideas that increase market share, improve customer experience and drive growth.
• Manage product development from concept, to UI/UX design, sample production, testing, launch, promotion, support, and finally product end of life.
• Scope and prioritize activities based on business and customer impact.
• Work closely with the engineering team to deliver on roadmap deadlines and define the acceptance criteria to measure engineering deliverables against.
• Act as a product evangelist to build awareness and understanding  
• Provides information for management, answering questions and requests from clients and colleagues.
• Assesses market competition by comparing the company’s product to competitors’ products.
• Provides source data for product line communications by defining product marketing communication objectives.
• Strategically design and adopts ways to enhance product market share with the marketing team

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree
• Demonstrated success defining and launching excellent products
• Knowledge of various software development methodologies (Agile/scrum etc)
• Excellent communication and interpersonal negotiation skills
• Entrepreneurial mindset and commitment to get hands dirty at all times.
• Problem solver with a data-driven and KPI-oriented approach to maximize the efficiency of all the operations, using such tools as SQL, Python and Excel
• Have experience with project tools like JIRA, Confluence, and Zeplin
• UI/UX Design skills with Adobe XD with ability to rapidly prototype ideas