Business Analyst​/Product Manager

Digital Advantage is a leading digital agency operating in Saudi Arabia and across the GCC. We partner with clients, founders, & investors to build and sustain digital advantage. This includes a wide range of activities ranging from Web / Mobile Application design and development, to social media management and optimization, and designing and executing state of the art digital marketing campaigns.

We are currently headquartered in Jeddah, have offices at KAEC and Amman, and staff working directly with clients in Riyadh and Dammam.

We offer a unique workplace and culture that truly rewards performance and effort over other more superficial characteristics such as age, tenure, time spent in the office and previous job titles. This allows our team members to grow more quickly, accelerate their careers, and get tremendous exposure to top notch clients and advisors (regionally and in the U.S.). We value ambition, skills training, and entrepreneurship and provide flexible work schedules and unique opportunities - including work travel / training in the U.S. with leaders in the digital space.

Job Description:

What You'll Do

The Product Manager reports directly to the Managing Director and is responsible for defining the what, why, and of the product that the development team builds. This means they lead cross-functional teams from a product's conception all the way through to its launch.

Here are the core aspects of the role that all product managers should feel accountable for:

The product manager is responsible for helping set a product vision and strategy. Their job is to clearly articulate the business value to the client or company so they understand the intent behind the new product or product release. The product manager owns the roadmap and must prioritize building what matters most to achieve the strategic goals and initiatives behind the product.

Ideation and Business / Functional Requirements Definition

Every organization wants better ideas - but it is tough to manage and prioritize them. Product managers own the creative process of generating, developing, and curating new ideas. They determine which ideas should be promoted into features to push the product strategy forward - namely those that will achieve key objectives for the product line and business. To this end, they also ensure that feedback and requests are seamlessly integrated into their product planning and development processes.

Product managers then communicate the status of ideas back to the customers, partners, and internal team members who submitted them.

The product manager starts by defining the goals and KPIs of the project, articulating the end vision and starts to outline the initial Information Architecture for the UI and back-end platforms.

Depending of the size of the project, Product Managers then either develop or work with a UI specialist to map out the screens, page flows, templates and/or wireframes for the product.

Product Managers take a long list of features, and helps rank them against strategic goals and initiatives. This requires making difficult trade off decisions based on the value that new features will deliver to customers and to the business. The product manager is also responsible for defining and documenting the requirements for each feature and the desired user experience. Product managers work closely with development team on the technical specifications and ensure that teams have all of the information they need to deliver a complete product to market.

Building great products is invigorating. Successful products are built and adopted by customers when a group of committed, focused, and passionate team members play their positions to the best of their abilities. This starts with a strong product manager who feels a deep sense of responsibility for their role and managing what is defined above.

Releases

Product managers must plan what their teams will deliver and the timeline for implementation. This holds true no matter which development methodology the development team uses. The product manager is responsible for defining the release process and coordinating all of the activities required to bring the product to market. This involves bridging gaps between different functions within the company and aligning all of the teams involved - namely marketing, sales, and customer support.

Responsibilities also include managing dependencies in and across releases to complete release phases and milestones.

Account Management

Product managers are direct interfaces with our clients and are expected to work closely with clients and stakeholders to define requirements and gain approvals. This means frequent visits to client site and excellent reporting of progress and new requests.

Management and Business Development

Some of our best Product Managers were actually our best sources of business development because they kept their eyes and ears…