Software Product Manager

Johannesburg
Salary: (Negotiable)
Job Type: Permanent
Sectors: Technology
Reference: 75598

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Employer: Unique Personnel

What you’ll do:

Defining the product strategy/vision.
Conducting market research and competitor
Creating and maintaining product roadmaps for multiple
Define and prioritize features based on value, feasibility, and strategic alignment, leveraging agile methodologies to drive rapid iteration and delivery
Conducting Design Thinking Workshops
Spearhead collaboration between Product Owners, Data Team, Security, Development Teams to deliver high- performance, secure products.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with marketing, sales, and customer operations teams to ensure that technology solutions support customer and enhance service delivery.
Monitor progress of software product development
Plan and manage the release of software
Regular communication with senior management on status, risks and change
Lead the Product team, with a focus on mentorship for Product
Monitor budgets against expenditure and manage software development
Product Risk Management
Build business cases as part of evaluating features and/or product
Analyse and report on product metrics, with a focus on ROI and other

Candidate Requirements

Your expertise:

7 + years’ experience in software development in complex, high-performance software environments
5+ years of experience of end-to-end product ownership / senior business analyst role in either in consulting or industry.
Experience with tools like JIRA, MS DevOps, MS Teams,
Relevant tertiary qualification
Agile Product Owner Certification (advantageous)
Design Thinking/UX Certification (advantageous)
Experience:

Experience in launching digital products across
Experience working in an Agile environment with cross-functional
Experience working with Content management systems and Product
Experience of working in and leading multi-disciplinary teams (Designers, Engineers, Product Owners, Architects) within a fast-paced environment whilst maintaining calm under pressure.
Proven success working in and promoting a rapidly changing, collaborative, and iterative product development environment.
Fluency in a range of tech (inc. web, data, ERP, etc) to direct, inspire and drive technologists within agile

Skills and attributes:

Deep understanding of iterative product development methodologies - such as SAFe and scrum methodologies.
Ability to get into details to ensure successful execution while understanding the strategic level impact of the work.
Able to translate and aggregate customer feedback into structured product ideas, roadmap & backlog and plans to communicate the value of delivering a new service or feature.
Comfortable collaborating on UX challenges with designers.
Deep user empathy and experience, bringing together user research, insights & data.
Strong organization and documentation skills with the ability to write user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical infrastructure requirements.
Working with the data, design and research teams to research, prototype, test and validate ideas.
Ability to work with and influence remote teams.
Evidenced understanding and application of human centred design and delivery.

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