Product Manager at GVA Partners

• The candidate will ensure seamless communication across teams and help grow product awareness through blog posts and marketing initiatives.

Skills Requirements:

• SaaS product management
• Technical writing and content creation
• Product evangelism and digital marketing
• Product packaging and monetization strategies
• Go-to-market execution
• Strong collaboration and communication skills

The below outlines the ideal role profile;

• In-depth knowledge of Agile process and principles
• Understands business needs, priorities and capabilities, as well as customer needs & priorities
• Has a sufficient digital background to identify technical issues and be able to interact with development teams
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
• Creative thinker with a vision
• Able to own roadmap and help to shape this by working closely with various stakeholders to integrate with business strategy
• Experience with change management and working in a matrix environment
• Makes sound and timely decisions based on careful consideration of a range of factors, including all aspects of risk and return
• Enthusiastic, thorough, inclusive and results-oriented
• Outstanding communication, presentation, and leadership skills
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Previous overall working experience of 5-10 years, including 3+ years working as a Product Owner.
• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Masters in CS or Business Administration highly desired
• Understand the company’s vision and customer expectations
• Take the lead of scrum teams as the Product Owner
• The ability to think strategically and be able to network across multiple functions, business units, external stakeholders
• Providing vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders
• Research and analyze market, the users, and the roadmap for the product
• Strong user empathy and able to represent the customer in product development
• Formulating and prioritizing the needs
• Contribute to a clear product vision, program backlog and product release planning
• Build and maintain a deep understanding of all the product aspects, including the customers and user perspective, competitive products and our technical capabilities
• Elicit customer insights and requirements using interviews, requirements workshops, storyboards, surveys, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, competitive product analysis
• Lead the planning product release plans and set the expectation for delivery of new functionalities
• Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals
• Follow our competitors and the industry.
• Work with User Experience, Design and IT to design and deliver the optimum customer experience for each development
• Track assigned budget and resources and provides input to the annual budget development process
• Groom the product backlog, prioritizing highest customer value features first
• Translate the program backlog into user stories and product iterations to feed the implementation team(s)
• Collaborate with the Scrum team to prioritize, plan, and release working product increments
• Keep stakeholders involved by gathering input and communicating progress
• Collect and analyzes usability studies, market research, and user feedback to identify and recommend product enhancements and market opportunities
• Ensure the completeness and accuracy of product backlog items for the Scrum team by creating clear and thoughtful documentation
• Contribute to the success of the Scrum team by being an active participant in all Scrum ceremonies
• Respect and empower the Scrum team’s ability to create its own plan of action each sprint while protecting the team
• Handle critical, complex and enterprise projects
• Establish goals and metrics to measure the effectiveness after release
• Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends
• Gather, understand and document requirements