Lead Product Manager

Lead Product Manager

Requirements

• Skilled in managing cross-functional software development teams in an agile environment
• Skilled in managing business priorities against design/user needs while delivering against product roadmaps
• Skilled in managing end-to-end software product development and releases
• Stakeholder management skills – experienced in building and managing stakeholder relationships to influence and drive change
• Problem solving, critical thinking and analytical skills
• Planning, organizational and time management skills
• Comfort with ambiguity – remains confident, positive and resourceful in the face of ambiguity and unexpected results; recovers quickly from setbacks
• Exhibits qualities of and have proven to be a great teammate
• Verbal and written communication skills, ability to translate between business and technical
• Technical acumen – grasps the technical details to lead a team, product and/or program
• 4-6 years relevant experience
• Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

• Value – ensuring solutions are distinctly valuable to our customers
• Viability – ensuring solutions are viable for various aspects of our business
• Work on technical data product with KPI development with high degree of technical discussion
• Stakeholder management – experienced in building and managing stakeholder relationships to influence and drive change
• Bringing innovation to the platform by keeping up to date with evolving industry trends.
• Experienced level knowledge in the development and use of product data to inform product decisions – both quantitative and qualitative
• Deep understanding of customers/users problems, how they think and operate and the platforms/technology they use
• Deep understanding of the business domain, stakeholders, business processes and constraints in which your product(s) play
• Experienced in making priority decisions based on measurable value, given the usability, feasibility and viability
• Understand and communicate organization objectives, strategies and solution needs to the team to facilitate results (where collaborative/as colleague)
• Skilled in leading Discovery Process sessions with key stakeholders
• Clearly communicate the value of the of work being delivered
• Manage work with a product mindset – focus on outcomes (over outputs), problems to solve, the goals of your product and key metrics of success; give teams the freedom and responsibility to think of a strategy they believe will result in the best product for our clients; facilitate teams in setting up a process that supports them in building these products
• Lead the product development process by championing and prioritizing of a team backlog, based on value, viability and the needs of the business
• Demonstrate ownership on the critical aspects of product development proves and stakeholder communication.
• Lead the development, championing and evangelizing of a product vision, strategy and roadmap, based on value, viability and the needs of the business.
• Creating high level and detailed documentation for the product for internal and external stakeholders.
• Lead the development, championing and evangelizing of a program vision, strategy and roadmap, based on value, viability and the needs of the business.
• Clearly communicate the value and ROI of the work being delivered

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in retail space with good understanding of metric and KPI development preferred
• Awareness of SQL and snowflake or cloud environment preferred