Product Manager I

Contributes to driving the Product Vision that addresses cross-domain market needs with strong business viability; in line with the Product/Platform Portfolio with guidance from Managers. Assists Managers in delivering the desired product and platform outcomes from original inspiration through implementation and support. rnContributes to the discovery and development of the product/platform per the phases and stages of the product/platform. as guided by the Product Managers.

Outcomes:

1. A strong evangelist of Product & Platforms Division s Vision and Philosophy.
2. Performs primary and secondary research on Market Driven Products & Platforms; executes the product/platform strategy
3. Ensures clear and unambiguous translation of Product Value Roadmap through deliverables to enable the product team to complete work
4. Ensures adherence to the Product Value Roadmap set by Product Managers and Product Leadership
5. Drafts user stories and ensures they are clearly understood by cross functional product teams
6. Ensures Product requirements are gathered and prioritized
7. Drives the execution of product development in collaboration with Product Team members comprised of Product Design Technology & Data Science
8. Adherence to the modern product management practises and standards; providing periodic status updates
9. Supports Product Managers and Senior Product Managers in product demos
10. Supports in achieving the Product OKRs

Measures of Outcomes:

1. Adherence to agreed product roll-out timelines
2. Achievement of Product Metrics
3. Achievement of Product OKRs
4. Product Team Performance
5. Number of domain and product certifications

Outputs Expected:

Plan to develop great products and platforms:

1. Strong research enabling sound Product Discovery
2. Co-facilitates Discovery Sprints under guidance from Product and Senior Product Managers
3. Write and articulate great user stories by capturing and translating solutions for identified user problems into product features that deliver value and impress users
4. Adherence to Product OKRs

Design to deliver vast end -user experience:

1. Facilitate sound user research across target market segments
2. Influence in implementing design user-centric experiences throughout the users journey
3. Assist in defining user experience (e. g. wire framing
   journey maps); partnering with product designers

Research the market to ensure an unfair advantage:

1. Sound understanding of market trends
   partner ecosystems
   and competitive strategies
2. Understanding users
   the marketplace
   the competition and future trends for the domain or type of system being developed
   through customer and market research
   competitive analysis
   and rapidly acquiring domain expertise
3. Define and articulate unique product and business differentiation

Manage business to go to and win in the markets:

1. Assist in implementing the GTM strategies and achieve the metrics for product success
2. Protect assets and mitigate risks
   employing IP knowledge

Manage great people:

1. Inspire Product teams
   communicate with diverse groups
   and influence change throughout the organization

Use great technology:

1. Good understanding and usage of tech stacks
2. Good understanding of exponential technologies including AI/ML
   IoT
   Blockchain
3. Agile proficiency for Rapid Product Discovery & Development
4. Employ eminent technology in product management by diving deep into technology trends and architectures

Employ great methods in product management :

1. Understand different product management and development approaches
2. Understand product usage models

Skill Examples:

1. Skill in understanding and articulating the core positioning messaging and value propositions for the product
2. Ability to support product demos to customers/end users
3. Ability to define the user experience to be incorporated into the User Design
4. Aptitude in creating user stories
5. Ability to creates market customer and competition research based on understanding of market trends partner ecosystems and competitive strategies
6. Capable of motivating the team to build and deliver impressive products

Knowledge Examples:

Knowledge Examples

1. Domain / Industry Knowledge: Working knowledge of standard business processes within the relevant industry vertical and customer business domain
2. Technology Trends Knowledge: Demonstrates broad knowledge of technology trends related to multiple inter-related technologies
3. Proficient in user story writing
4. Knowledge of market trends partner ecosystems and competitive strategies
5. Proficient in product documentation
6. Expertise in people management
7. Knowledge of technology trends and architectures

UST is looking for an Agile Product Owner, to work with agile product management and engineering team to successfully deliver features and products to the market. Product Owner will be responsible for certain key functional areas of the product and will be the go-to person for these areas including defining features and user stories. The Product Owner will work closely with assigned scrum team to translate these to technical tasks and be responsible for overall delivery of product features within quarterly releases. In addition, Product Owner will be responsible for helping to evangelize the product to marketing, sales, pre-sales and professional services teams and being the SME for questions and clarifications. Responsibilities: As a Product Owner, you will Author requirements and user stories for product features working with stakeholders (both internal and external) as needed ensuring that stakeholder and market needs are met. Technical aptitude; programming and/or UX (User Experience) background a strong plus Familiar and have experience in using agile/scrum methodologies such as SAFe to drive and deliver product releases. Provide week-to-week tactical objectives to scrum team, and provide quick JIT decisions to system level questions and defect triage. Drive and own backlog grooming and management, prioritize the iteration and drive acceptance testing and delivery of iteration Work with 3rd party system integrators to drive process on schedule and on budget. Drive beta and pilot programs with early-stage features, Proof of concepts, etc. Be the voice of the product and company at system demos, sales calls, conferences and industry forums. Validates and sign s off on all major design changes, epics, and stories Partner with product management, application architects, and development manager to help establish vision, release and annual program backlogs Research to identify needs that new or improved products can satisfy by analyzing and compare competitors products as well as meet with customers to discuss their requirements Responsible for coordinating and working closely with technical writer leader, engineers, and product management to produce product documentation such as user guides, release notes, internal and external training. Requirements: Bachelors degree in computer science, information technology or equivalent. Certification or experience in areas related to Product Management, Scrum or Agile methodologies. 5 years experience as an Agile Scrum Product Owner or similar roles. Strong experience in Agile development particularly Scrum Must have proven work experience as a technical "influencer" and ability to own and drive the product and/or specific product features. Preferred Additional Skills Interpersonal skills: Help negotiate priorities and to resolve conflicts among project stakeholders (such as customers, product management, and delivery team) Facilitation skills: Elicit business and user needs and all technology delivery needs Analytical skills: Evaluate the information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, and decompose high-level information into appropriate features and/or stories. Experience with off-site product development teams. Ability to work in a dynamic and flexible environment with the ability influence. Technical aptitude; programming and/or UX (User Experience) background a strong plus The successful candidate should demonstrate innovation, constant learning, self-motivation and effective team participation. Good communication and interpersonal skills are required. The candidate should demonstrate a willingness to share knowledge, excellent listening skills and strong analytical skills. The candidate must be able to work effectively under project and daily deadlines.