Product Manager (Project -based)

Duties & Responsibilities

• Become the leader in the end-to-end development of products: from gathering feedback from the users to leading the discovery sessions with engineering teams and design teams to model and launch a solution, making sure the builds are highly adopted by users
• Collaborate with the business teams to understand the problems and objectives validated and driven by data and analytics
• Responsible for the definition of the products and features. Owns the product backlog and its prioritization in collaboration with other stakeholders
• Writes the external and internal facing documentation of products and be responsible for the alignment of solutions with all stakeholders
• Ensures execution speed through prioritization: establish clear milestones with visible progress regularly, and an emphasis on quick iterations
• Collaborate with the commercial, marketing and operations teams to ensure the success of the product launch
• Establishes and augment development best practices, problem management and release engineering
• Drives a culture of excellence, commitment and ownership with good execution and continuous team and self-improvement. Mentor and challenge the team to grow personally and professionally

Job Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years in Product Management. Someone from other related disciplines that would like to shift to Product Management (i.e. Project Management, Software Development, QA, UX/UI Design) can be considered. There should be experience working with software products and projects, which includes guiding development teams, hands-on involvement in system architecture, design, deployment, monitoring, performance and stability.

Technical Skills

• Track record of product development from conception to delivery and iteration at an Internet Product Company, having made a difference in product quality with 2+ years’ experience in online retail/eCommerce related projects
• Technical leadership experience: can delve into technical architecture decisions and explain tradeoffs; drives microservice-oriented systems and can communicate with key technical concepts
• Familiarity with software development lifecycle and scrum framework best practices

Soft Skills

• Thrives in high-speed execution environments, able to make scope tradeoffs without impacting desired goal
• Strong communication skills in both persuasion and presentation; fluent in English
• Believes in meritocracy of ideas; challenges hierarchical decision-making; drives team consensus; breaks analysis-paralysis by planning execution paths; when needed, can commit to undesired work direction
• Identify market opportunities, build business cases, and define product vision and strategy for the company's products
• An understanding of global eCommerce markets, competition and customer/user requirements
• Excellent organizational, analytical and influencing skills

Education

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience

• Product Management: 5 years (Preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in National Capital Region