Product Manager I

Job Description

Role Proficiency: Level of Proficiency: Enables the delivery of differentiated products that address a customer/market need and represent a viable business opportunity with some guidance from Product Manager II; in line with organizational strategy and goals, from conception through end of life. Outcomes: Manages the product throughout the Product Lifecycle under guidance from Product Manager II to enable the delivery of great products 1. Develop the core positioning and messaging for the product 2. Defines the Product Roadmap 3. Ensure product requirements and user stories are clearly understood from the customer discovery process 4. Ensures the product and customer requirements are gathered and prioritized 5. Enables research and plans the product-line strategy 6. Sets and tracks clear Product Success goals 7. Ensure the execution of their product development in collaboration with engineering 8. Adherence to the best practices and standards; provide periodic status updates 9. Ensure career progression for Associate Product Managers via focused mentoring and grooming 10. Perform product demos to customers 11. Influence and improve customer satisfaction 12. Set OKRs for self/team and also provide feedback to the goals of team members Measures of Outcomes: Measures: 1. Outcome accounting performance a. Number of Customer Activations b. Number of Customer Retentions c. TCV of Customer Revenue d. Product growth 2. Achievement of revenue targets 3. Adherence to project schedule and timelines 4. Number of domain certification and product certifications 5. Personal achievement of quarterly/yearly objectives (OKR, Assignments, HIG, Stretch goals) Outputs Expected: Plan to develop great products: Set quality product goals and key initiatives to meet the same Create and manage a product roadmap based on delivering value outcomes Write high quality user stories Facilitate the collection and prioritization of roadmap inputs and manage a living roadmap Conduct Product and Release Planning sessions with cross-functional teams Design to deliver great customer experience: Design customer-centric experiences throughout the customer decision journey Define user experience (e.g. wire framing, journey maps), partnering with product designers Write great user stories by capturing and translating customer stories into product features that deliver value and delights users Research the market to ensure an unfair advantage: Understand market trends, partner ecosystems, and competitive strategies Understand users, the marketplace, the competition and future trends for the domain or type of system being developed through customer and market research, competitive analysis, and rapidly acquiring domain expertise Define and articulate unique product and business differentiation Manage business to go to and win in the markets: Set goals and establish and manage to KPIs for product success (OKRs, Pirate Metrics, etc.) Protect assets and mitigate risks employing IP knowledge Manage great people: Lead teams, communicate with diverse groups, and influence change throughout the organization Set a vision of what s/he wishes to build and motivate the engineering team to deliver the vision Prioritize, delegate, influence, persuade, resolve Use great technology: Deep understanding and usage of tech stacks Use scrum / agile proficiency (backed up by CSPO / CSM certifications) to deliver projects Employ great technology in product management by diving deep into technology trends and architectures Employ great methods in product management : Understand different product management and development approaches Understand product usage models Skill Examples: 1. Develop the core positioning and messaging for the product 2. Perform product demos to customers 3. Creates user stories 4. Manages product pipeline effectively 5. Defines user experience, to be incorporated into the User Design 6. Creates market, customer, and competition research based on understanding of market trends, partner ecosystems, and competitive strategies 7. Creates business cases and business models including revenue modeling, cost management, SaaS models, outcome-based models 8. Creates and manages a great team and stakeholders, with proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority 9. Leverages great technology in product management by diving deep into technology trends and architectures 10. Motivates team to build and deliver great products Knowledge Examples: 1. Domain / Industry Knowledge: Working knowledge of standard business processes within the relevant industry vertical, customer business domain 2. Technology Trends Knowledge: Demonstrates broad knowledge of technology trends related to multiple inter-related technologies 3. Expert at customer discovery 4. Proficient in user story writing 5. Proficient in product pipeline management 6. Expertise in user experience design 7. Knowledge of market trends, partner ecosystems, and competitive strategies 8. Expertise in people management 9. Knowledge of technology trends and architectures,

Keyskills :
marketingsalesproduct developmentproduct managementdeliveryuser experience designuser storiesstory writingfuture trendsmarket researchuser experiencecost managementrevenue modeling