Job Overview
We are looking for a Product Manager who is enthusiastic about building and managing innovative products. This role is a new role in the organization and will be key to establishing the Artificial Intelligence product portfolio.
Focus areas will include establishing product strategy and roadmap, building product business case, product backlog management, and effective prioritization to delivery high priority features and strategic capabilities. A key part of this role will be to build and foster a culture of agility and product ownership in close partnership with technology and business teams.
Main Responsibilities
- Establish a robust product strategy using inputs from internal stakeholders such as business leads, delivery leads and leadership teams, as well as keeping in mind market trends.
- Build an ROI-driven product roadmap that captures full lifecycle of the product – from concept through maturity and eventually to disinvest stage.
- Build and actively manage a product backlog of features and capabilities that are groomed and prioritized in close collaboration with the business teams.
- Manage work allocation of scrum teams by translating features into prioritized user stories.
- Full participation in and support of agile practices and ceremonies to reinforce the agile transformation of the delivery team.
- Communicate and build consensus across multiple departments in creating the software product requirements.
- Design thinking and innovation is a key component of the role to explore new new ideas and drive the outcomes quickly.
- Proactively assist the business to identify upcoming conflicts and resource gaps.
- Serve as primary interface with development teams and technology teams on project planning and management.
- Contribute in creative brainstorms to improve the quality of AI team’s services.
- Track investments and outcomes and report to leadership.
- Help prioritize resources and investments.
- Drive penetration and growth of product portfolio.
Key Attributes
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong presentation and persuasion skills.
- Very strong knowledge of product management and development processes.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively establish and maintain working relationships with all levels of the organization.
- Demonstrated analysis and innovative problem solving skills.
- Experience working with various development methodologies, e.g. Agile and SCRUM, and process workflow across organizations.
- High degree of competency in all phases of project management, including issue and risk identification and management; change management; tracking dependencies and milestones; and communicating overall project status.
- Experience working in matrix, multi-functional teams comprised of Program Managers, Product Managers, Developers, and business owners.
- Solid understanding of technical platforms, and internal and 3rd party interfaces.
Education
- Masters’ Degree in Management, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.
Core Competencies
- Product Management skills, preferably in a technology environment.
- Design and Development in large scale responsive web applications. / backend system (Relational and/or document based, big data is plus).
- Good understanding of Cloud computing and Artificial Intelligence APIs.
- Experience guiding development teams.
Preference
- Minimum 7+ years in a Top Tier Technology organization / Top tier Consulting firm / Product management environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong presentation and persuasion skills.
- Ability to drill down to core requirements from unstructured requests / inputs.