Principal Product Manager

Summary

Join our dynamic Digital Product Engineering company as a Product Manager! You will be a strategic leader, driving product development from inception to launch and beyond. This role demands strong analytical skills, market awareness, and effective communication. You will collaborate closely with stakeholders and teams to define product vision and ensure alignment with business goals. Success requires a proven track record in product management, a deep understanding of Agile methodologies, and a passion for creating exceptional user experiences. We offer a collaborative and non-hierarchical work culture.

Requirements

• Must have Skills: SAFe
• 2 to 3 years of experience in roles with similar responsibilities
• Effectively manages own time and provides visibility into ongoing work
• Recognizes when teammates encounter difficulties in their tasks and readily offers support
• Demonstrates initiative by taking action without constant direction from others
• Applies values of quality, response to change, customer centricity in the way of working
• Works iteratively and incrementally as standard
• Understands the differences between agile and traditional practices and can select the best fit for context
• Knows good design practices (e.g., design patterns, known structures, industry solutions) that are applicable to their role
• Identifies opportunities or issues to apply best practices
• Designs solutions with performance in mind
• Performs proof of concept on potential solutions to assess their impact
• Identifies performance issues in day-to-day operations and alerts the team
• Analyzes technologies or methods that have the potential to complement, improve, or optimize the solution
• Offers optimization solutions that positively impact metrics (e.g., turnaround or processing time, resource consumption)
• Has the necessary knowledge to solve many of the technical impediments the development team encounters
• Knows and suggests good practices, novel technologies, and methodologies with the potential to add value to the project
• Promotes discussions on the best ways to approach a solution
• Provides ongoing on-the-job coaching to junior team members

Responsibilities

• Analyze market trends, monitor competitors, and identify opportunities in organizational processes
• Support product sales or other product goals established
• Set ambitious and clear product vision and communicate it effectively to stakeholders, the team, and the rest of the unit
• End to end team output strategy from inception to production
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure digital vision and products alignment with value streams
• Remain accountable for product specific KPIs once solution enters production and communicate regular tracking to stakeholders
• Utilize market and industry knowledge to translate user needs into user stories and acceptance criteria for their team
• Maintain a backlog 3 to 4 sprints ahead of the team
• Works closely with CPO to establish each product's business value and support messaging, communication, and customer outreach as necessary
• Integrate usability studies and research into product requirements to enhance user satisfaction and ensure customer driven design

Preferred Qualifications

FMCG Domain