Technical Product Manager

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KEY EXPECTED ACHIEVEMENTS

 More specifically (s)he must be:

• As a Product Manager works on identifying value, defining roadmap, product adoption, cross pollination and feature upgrades.
• Taking lead of teams as the Product Owner.
• Providing vision and direction to the Agile development team and create requirements whenever needed.
• Planning and prioritize product feature backlog and development.
• Assessing value, develop cases, stories and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value.
• Working closely with management to maintain a product backlog according to business value.
• Leading the planning product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities.
• Providing an active role in mitigating roadblocks impacting successful team completion of deployments.
• Researching and analyze the markets, the users, and the roadmap for the product.
• Following competitors and other products related to his portfolio.

• Demonstrate superior product and industry knowledge and helps organization to gain the competitive edge.

• Interacts with customers/stakeholders in VOC requirements-gathering, fine tuning, and obtaining product feedback.

• Works with cross-functional teams to deliver features and major, complex products.

• Possesses a deep understanding of the technology stack and impact on final product.

• Routinely collaborates with UX, Architecture and engineering teams on multiple issues and decisions.
• Conducts customer and stakeholder interviews and elaborates on personas.
• Demonstrates expert persuasion and influencing skills that ensure alignment between customer, product manager and engineering teams.
• Owns the release and sprint backlogs short-term roadmap for MVPs and quarterly releases.
• Owns and manages the backlog; continuously orders and prioritizes to ensure that 1-2 sprints/iterations of backlog are always ready.
• Prioritize continuously in accordance with the understanding and validation of customer problems and needs.
• Demonstrates strategic expert level skills in problem decomposition and ability to navigate through ambiguity.
• Engages frequently (50% of the time) with the development team; facilitates discussions, provides clarification, story acceptance and refinement, testing and validation; contributes to design activities and decisions.
• Translates unstructured or ambiguous work requests into actionable user stories and work units.
• Partners with Development Leadership to ensure healthy development process.
• Develop strong domain understanding such as Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Inventory, Marketing, etc while working with business partners
• Mentors junior team members; Provide technical leadership to TPMs across organization.
• Expert in Agile Methodology: Coaches others.

Product Lifecycle Management

• Manage a backlog of global priorities across multiple stakeholders and departments
• Maintains a release plan and high-level roadmap providing insight to stakeholders of upcoming development
• Plan product launches.
• Help design product solutions.
• Maintain a list of product features.
• Identify product key developments.
• Analyze risks and cost-benefit ratios.
• Manage product user experience (UX).
• Stay up to date in terms of digital product best practices (standards, security, integration, data requirements, etc.).
• Manage product upgrade or deletion.

Case Development

• Write user stories.
• Write use case.
• Document product usage, define the test strategy and validate the product.

Product Deployment

• Work with Business Analyst in product-need matching.
• Help with functional analysis.
• Measure product deployment success.
• Apply product adaptations.
• Transmit product improvements to the Digital Solution Developer and/or Deployer.
• Document product usage workarounds.
• Stay up to date with the latest capabilities and features available on the platform

Product Usage Optimization

• Support product training.
• Troubleshoot product usage problem.
• Help with change management.

Product Benchmarking

• Continuously review and analyze competitive products.
• Compare product performance with competitive solutions.
• Train himself/herself in related product category.
• Build comparative presentations.