Responsibilities
Stakeholder communication and expectation management
- Keep in mind the different views of various stakeholders and explain changes to them within their context
- Facilitate decisions on scope budget and timeline
- Lead an empowered crossfunctional team (UX designers & researchers software developers QA analysts & engineers)
Business acumen
- Collaborate with the client and the team to determine the product context including vision strategy and OKRs
- Compile the business case for product discovery and development
- Manage value usability technical feasibility and business viability risk
- Data visualisation to derive business value
- Market analysis and competitive positioning
- Business process mapping
Lean product process
- Product owner support (the product owner is clientside and often inexperienced with making software)
- Product discovery
- Release planning and execution
- Lean analytics
Project and financial management
- Project budget management
- Resource planning
- Project plan update with dependencies in mind
- Financial updates invoicing and forecasting
- Project risk management
Scrum master
- Remove impediments to product development
- Facilitate retrospectives and implement Agile principles
Skills
Firstly you need the skills to take on the responsibilities specified above. You also need a love for
- teams of creative and happy people
- closely collaborative innovation
- creating value through lean principles
- being adaptive rather than reactive
Qualifications
- Minimum 5 years of work experience
- Minimum 2 years experience in Agile software development
- One of the following
- Minimum 2 years experience as a project manager
- Minimum 2 years experience as a tech Product Manager
- Minimum 2 years experience as a Business Analyst
Nice to have
If you tick all the required boxes the following things will give you an edge:
- If youve started your own business before (it does not matter whether it worked out or not)
- An inclination to mentor others