Product Manager - Hybrid Schedule Available

About the role

The Product Manager is responsible for overall business and product development activities, including technical and commercial quoting, leading development, and improving new and existing products to meet organizational, market, and customer expectations. This role involves interfacing with customers, internal teams (such as customer service, engineering, marketing, and operations), and sales teams to grow product value. The Product Manager defines the product vision, gathers and prioritizes requirements, and works closely with Application Engineers, Engineering, and Marketing to deliver winning products. They also manage the product lifecycle, define release processes, and ensure alignment with the company’s overall strategy and goals.

Responsibilities

Liaison & Communication

• Represents and engages with business users as a fully integrated team member.
• Communicates the project vision at the beginning of every release and sprint to ensure team alignment.
• Makes business decisions and clearly communicates requirements through epics and stories.
• Communicates project status to stakeholders outside the team.

Development

• Creates, maintains, prioritizes, and sequences the product backlog based on business value or ROI.
• Develops user stories and acceptance tests from themes and features for sprints.
• Prioritizes user stories by business value and schedules them into sprints.
• Provides rapid feedback and participates in Scrum-related meetings (e.g., stand-ups, retrospectives, sprint planning, demos).

Application Support

• Reviews deliverable code after every sprint and accepts or rejects it.
• Develops and maintains standards for testing and progress visibility.
• Provides progress reporting and assists with backlog maintenance.
• Improves transparency and communication internally and externally.
• Prioritizes and resolves defects/bugs.
• Translates business requirements into technical specifications and vice versa.
• Allocates resources and runs design sprints.
• Prioritizes product features and communicates the reasoning to stakeholders.

Management

• Participates proactively in team activities and remains accessible.
• Steers the project to ensure delivery of business value.
• Plans and designs the product roadmap.
• Provides encouragement, recognition, and support to the team.
• Terminates sprints if a drastic change in direction is required.
• Adjusts project course at the end of sprints as necessary.
• Determines pricing and revenue modeling.
• Defines and tracks success metrics.
• Ensures timely product completion without cost overruns.

Other Duties

• Performs additional duties as assigned.

Requirements

Formal Education & Certification

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.

Knowledge & Experience

• Two or more years of project or product management experience.
• Five or more years of experience in a related stakeholder function.
• Thorough understanding of agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures.
• Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle.
• In-depth knowledge of testing practices and techniques.
• Understanding of the organization’s development platform and languages.
• Ability to understand technical issues.

Personal Attributes

• Excellent communication skills.
• Advanced negotiation skills.
• Proven leadership ability.
• Decisive and self-motivated.
• Capable of managing multiple priorities and tasks.
• Team-player with the ability to work in a collaborative environment.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to work with diverse personality types.
• Ability to coach teams to reach their highest potential.
• Creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex problems.
• Collaborative in driving decisions.
• Ability to handle multiple projects and deadlines.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail.

Work Environment

• Hybrid schedule available after training completion (3 days in the office, 2 days remote).
• Sitting for extended periods of time.
• Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, and other components.