Product Manager at Zojatech Limited

Description

• Product Manager is responsible for defining and executing the product vision, strategy, and roadmap in alignment with business objectives and customer needs.
• The role oversees the full product lifecycle from ideation to launch ensuring timely delivery of high-quality solutions that drive growth and customer satisfaction.
• The position combines product ownership and Agile leadership by managing and prioritizing the product backlog, facilitating Scrum ceremonies, removing team impediments, and fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Acting as the key liaison between business stakeholders and the development team, the role ensures alignment, transparency, and effective cross-functional collaboration across engineering, design, sales, and marketing teams.
• Additionally, the role tracks product performance metrics, gathers customer and market insights, and continuously optimizes product offerings to maximize value delivery and business impact.

Responsibilties
Product Management & Strategy:

• Define and communicate a compelling product vision and strategy that aligns with company goals and customer needs.
• Create and maintain a detailed product roadmap, prioritizing initiatives that drive business growth and customer satisfaction.
• Conduct market research, customer interviews, and competitive analysis to gather insights and inform product decisions.
• Drive the product lifecycle from ideation through to delivery, ensuring timely and successful product launches and iterations.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders, including engineering, design, sales, and marketing teams, to ensure product alignment across the organization.
• Lead a product management team in which you motivate and achieve steady improvements in your area
• Identification and promotion of high potential and talents
• Participate and oversee all Product activities (Solution Architecting and Technology Sales) activities of the company.
• Participate and directs the teams in ensuring right and cost-effective solution is proposed to customers at every time.
• Directs the team to support sales in achieving company technology financial targets.

Scrum Master Responsibilities:

• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies (daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives), ensuring the team remains focused and productive.
• Act as a servant leader to the Scrum team, fostering collaboration, communication, and continuous improvement within the team.
• Identify and remove obstacles that impede the team’s progress, ensuring they have what they need to succeed.
• Guide the team in embracing Agile principles, promoting self-organization and accountability.
• Track and report on team progress, ensuring sprints stay on track and goals are met.

Product Ownership:

• Own and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring clear and well-defined user stories, features, and acceptance criteria.
• Work closely with stakeholders and the development team to refine requirements and clarify features.
• Continuously adjust the backlog based on feedback, evolving priorities, and data-driven insights.
• Make critical decisions regarding feature prioritization and scope during sprint cycles to maximize value delivery.
• Ensure that the product meets business requirements, customer expectations, and quality standards.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Serve as the key liaison between business stakeholders and the development team, ensuring alignment and transparency on goals and priorities.
• Work with product designers, engineers, and other cross-functional teams to drive timely and successful product releases.
• Communicate progress, milestones, and product performance to senior leadership and other stakeholders.
• Lead the planning and execution of go-to-market strategies, collaborating with marketing, sales, and customer support teams to ensure successful product adoption.

Performance & Continuous Improvement:

• Define and track key product performance metrics, including customer adoption, engagement, and retention.
• Collect and analyze customer feedback and performance data to identify areas for improvement.
• Continuously optimize the product based on data insights, customer needs, and market trends.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement within the Scrum team and product management processes.

Job Specifications
Academic Qualifications, Professional Qualifications and Experience (Appendix 1)
Awareness:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years experience in product management roles
• Good understanding of what is involved in an area of expertise and its relevance to the business.
• Strong understanding of product development and product management processes, methodologies, and tools.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong analytical skills and experience using data to drive decisionmaking.
• Strong project management and team management skills.

Relevant professional qualifications:

• Strong understanding of product development and product management processes, methodologies, and tools.

Dimensions
Skills & Competencies:
The competence proficiency levels required for the position of Product Manager are defined using the following key terms:

• Analytical thinking – Mastery
• Presentation Skills - Mastery
• Interpersonal skills - Mastery
• Communication – Mastery
• Business Skill - Mastery
• Functional Technical Leadership – Mastery
• Credibility - Mastery
• Adaptability- Skill
• Teamwork – Mastery
• Self-Motivation - Mastery:

Definition of competence levels is in Appendix 1:

• Ability to describe the main elements of the area of expertise and their importance to the business; and
• Ability to recognize how and where competences in expertise are relevant to their own job.

Knowledge:

• Ability to interpret and evaluate information and advice from experts in an area of Expertise.
• Knowledge and ability to correctly use the terminology (vocabulary) of the area of Expertise.
• Ability to hold an informed debate with experts in the Area of
• Expertise; and Ability to ask questions that test the viability of proposals in an Area of Expertise.

Skill:

• Ability to consistently carry out the activities of an area of
• Expertise to the required standard.
• Ability to perform satisfactorily majority of activities of the Area of Expertise.
• Ability to translate guidelines and standards for the Area of Expertise into practical actions.
• Ability to solve imaginatively common technical /operational problems in the Area of Expertise, and
• Ability to guide and advise others in operational /technical aspects of the Area of Expertise.

Mastery:

• Ability to diagnose and resolve significant, unusual problems and to successfully adapt aspects of an Area of Expertise.
• Ability to creatively solve significant, complex, non-routine problems in the Area of Expertise.
• Ability to adapt practices from other markets or countries for use in the Area of Expertise; and
• Ability to generate substantial improvements to local practices and procedures for the Area of Expertise.