Product Manager

Summary

Join Sporty Group as a Product Manager and define the digital roadmap for products used by millions daily. Collaborate with stakeholders to set goals and utilize generative research to create engaging products. Become a product and customer expert, ensuring the product backlog is valuable. Oversee product strategy, partner with development teams, and lead the planning process, prioritizing work based on team capacity. Manage project scope from inception to closure, ensuring efficient and cost-effective delivery. Align product development with company OKRs, evaluate new opportunities, and conduct customer research to understand needs and pain points. Maintain awareness of the competitive landscape, define and communicate the product roadmap, and collaborate with engineering teams to translate product opportunities into requirements. Build relationships with internal teams, develop go-to-market plans, define and track key metrics, and provide training and mentorship.

Requirements

• Being based in the EU timezone
• Experience making data-driven product decisions through user research and experimentation
• Demonstrable evidence of iterating and improving products based on feedback and performance data.A strong understanding of user-centered design principles
• The ability to influence within a fast-paced and distributed environment, and lead cross-functional planning and problem solving, particularly with engineering and design teams
• Experience defining and tracking OKRs or a similar goal-setting framework
• Excellent communication, presentation and analytical skills
• The ability to communicate clearly and efficiently in English

Responsibilities

• Aligning product development goals and initiatives to company OKRs
• Evaluating new opportunities to ensure that what gets developed and delivered to our customers is the right product, and is both usable and desirable. You are expected to direct customer research and analysis initiatives to gain a deep understanding of customers needs, pain points, and behaviors and use this knowledge to create compelling business cases that demonstrate the value of your proposed product recommendations
• Growing and maintaining an understanding of our competitive landscape through regular research and analysis. You are expected to keep abreast of new policies, regulatory changes, as well as analyzing market trends, competitors, and industry developments to identify opportunities for growth and innovation
• Defining and communicating the product roadmap. You will be responsible for providing clear vision, strategy and regular updates on the plans and progress of your product initiatives to key business stakeholders. You are also expected to unite with your engineering and design teams, actively engaging them in understanding and contributing to the customer and business problems that we aim to solve, and prioritizing a product backlog for them to work from
• Collaborating with your engineering teams to translate product opportunities into clear, specific, and measurable requirements to ensure the timely delivery of high-quality working software. You are expected to prioritize a product backlog for them to work from, and to maintain a strong understanding of the technology and engineering process, ensuring that the final product meets the needs of the customer or business before its release
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with our Delivery Managers, Tech Leads and Product Managers to effectively coordinate dependencies between tasks, development teams or projects
• Collaborating with internal teams, specifically the marketing team, to develop comprehensive go-to-market plans and product positioning. You are expected to identify target customer segments and support the marketing team on developing messaging that positions the product in the minds of the target customer
• Defining and tracking key metrics to measure product performance and success. You are expected to continuously monitor and analyze your product and customer feedback, making necessary adjustments to the product as needed
• Providing training and mentorship to new and current team members on your areas of expertise and responsibility

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in achieving product market fit for emerging markets preferred
• Degree or Masters in a Business, Product or Technology discipline preferred

Benefits

• Quarterly bonuses
• We have core hours of 10am-3pm in a local timezone, but flexible hours outside of this
• Top-of-the-line equipment
• Referral bonuses
• 28 days paid annual leave
• Annual company retreat
• Highly talented, dependable co-workers in a global, multicultural organisation
• Payment via DEEL, a world class online wallet system
• Our teams are small enough for you to be impactful
• Our business is globally established and successful, offering stability and security to our Team Members