As part of your everyday responsibilities in new product development, you will:
Collaborate with Stakeholders: Work with stakeholders and product managers to align the product roadmap to strategic goals, act as an ambassador for the product serving as the primary technical contact for internal (and external) queries related to the product, and collaborate closely with the technical team to ensure requirements clarity.
Manage Product Requirements: Develop feature descriptions for the product backlog, prioritize based on stakeholder feedback, assess market trends and feature value to focus on high-value work aligned with product strategy and develop appropriately detailed user stories to ensure they are understood by the technical team.
Coordinate Across Product Lifecycle: Work closely with product engineering leaders to support day-to-day engineering efforts and ensure seamless product implementation utilizing both waterfall and Agile methodologies, assist Quality Assurance team with testing direction in accordance with acceptance criteria and product vision. Coordinate with stakeholders to address any challenges or changes needed during delivery, monitor sprint plans to manage dependencies between teams during sprints and ensure timely delivery.
Develop Artifacts: Create business and functional product documentation, user guides, and customer-facing release toolkits.
Enhance Customer Support: Provide continuous guidance and assistance to customers, fostering product engagement and maximizing its usage.
Understand and Shape Product Vision: Collaborate with the Product Manager to understand and influence the vision for the products, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
requirements-expected :
Experience: Candidates must have previous experience in a similar role (business systems analysis, product ownership, or a related field). This experience is crucial for understanding user needs, transforming them into product features, and effectively managing product development processes as well as 2+ years working in a formalized software delivery team.
Technical Expertise: A degree in computer science, software engineering or a minimum of 4 years of related work experience is required. Familiarity with enterprise-grade B2B products is essential, given the digital nature of contemporary solutions. Proficiency with tools like Jira, Polarion-X, or similar is important for managing atomic requirements as well as a product backlog and enabling seamless collaboration with development teams. Experience in mobile and web-based applications is considered a plus.
Transaction Processing Knowledge: A solid understanding of end-to-end transaction processing systems, such as lottery transaction engines, banking and financial systems or other fintech solutions, is highly beneficial due to the complexity involved in these products.
Communication Skills: Strong English-language verbal and written skills are necessary to persuasively present insights and recommendations while engaging confidently with stakeholders at all organizational levels, ensuring effective communication and collaboration.
Management Abilities: Proven ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously within a fast-paced, dynamic environment is vital for success in this role. Ability to work from a high-level vision without supervision is essential.
Interpersonal Skills: Excellent interpersonal capabilities are needed to influence and collaborate across all organizational levels, fostering strong stakeholder relationships.
Flexibility: Willingness to travel up to 20% of the time and work across multiple time zones is required, reflecting the roles international scope and engagement with diverse stakeholders.
