Product Manager; Product Development

Position: Product Manager (New Product Development)
Accountabilities

You will own the day-to-day product direction and delivery, ensuring that the team consistently builds the right solutions and achieves agreed user and business outcomes.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Backlog ownership:
  Manage the product backlog end to end, personally writing user stories and acceptance criteria, breaking work into manageable increments, and maintaining at least two sprints of refined, ready-to-build work.
• Product discovery:
  Partner with UX and engineering teams to conduct user interviews, usability tests, prototyping, and lightweight experiments, ensuring product decisions are grounded in user research and evidence.
• Daily team collaboration:
  Work closely with engineers and designers, participate in daily stand-ups, resolve questions promptly, review work in progress, and accept or reject completed stories against defined acceptance criteria.
• Prioritization and decision-making:
  Rank initiatives according to user value and business impact, make timely scope and sequencing decisions, explain trade-offs, and adapt priorities as new evidence emerges.
• Outcome measurement:
  Establish success metrics with client sponsors, track indicators such as adoption, task completion, conversion, and user satisfaction, and use release performance to inform future backlog decisions.
• Technical collaboration:
  Develop a strong understanding of product architecture and engage in discussions about APIs, data models, and integrations. Independently retrieve and analyze product data to support decisions.
• Release management:
  Coordinate frequent releases with engineering teams through CI/CD processes, prepare release notes, and manage rollout communications with client stakeholders.
• Product vision and roadmap:
  Translate client objectives into a clear product vision and actionable near‑term roadmap that guides team execution.
• Agile delivery:
  Participate actively in Sprint Planning, Reviews, Retrospectives, and scaled Agile activities such as PI Planning. Maintain a refined, sized, and dependency‑mapped backlog while collaborating with the Scrum Master to improve delivery flow and predictability.
• Client engagement:
  Act as the primary product representative to client sponsors, leading demonstrations, regular check‑ins, discovery workshops, and stakeholder discussions with clear, evidence‑based recommendations.
• Delivery performance:
  Track engagement‑specific success measures, including outcomes delivered, backlog quality, release frequency, and client satisfaction.
• Initial delivery milestones:
  Establish a product baseline within the first 30 days, covering users, objectives, current metrics, and backlog health, and deliver an agreed roadmap with measurable outcome targets within 90 days.
• Risk and stakeholder management:
  Anticipate upcoming decisions and delivery risks, elevate issues early with recommended solutions, and keep clients and teammates informed.
• Consulting delivery:
  Balance client outcomes with project schedules, utilization targets, and the expectations of a billable, project‑based environment.

Requirements

The ideal candidate is a decisive, technically fluent product professional who combines strong discovery and delivery skills with client‑facing experience. The required qualifications include:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field; an advanced degree is considered an advantage.
• At least five years of hands‑on Product Manager or Product Owner experience within software or application development teams.
• Demonstrated ownership of product backlogs, including personally writing user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Current or recent experience, ideally within the past five years, at a product‑led technology company or in the digital or product practice of a leading consulting firm.
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