Lead Product Manager – Cape Town CBD needed at Flash Group
Job title : Lead Product Manager – Cape Town CBD
Job Location : Western Cape, Cape Town
Deadline : April 26, 2024
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RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Leading individuals across functions to deliver products and ensure product vision is implemented effectively
- Working with multiple teams across the business and all internal and external stakeholders to effectively manage, design and build highly effective product strategies and roadmaps
- Help influence and maintain a frontend platform roadmap based on our architectural goals
- Work with the data and/or UX teams to research, prototype, test and validate ideas around our design system, tooling and frontend architecture
- Driving the development of new products or product changes and enhancements aligned with our user’s needs
- Actively participate with product managers and the product development teams to define product requirements and specifications
- Drive strategic product communications across the organization (e.g. decision narratives, product updates, tracking of successes and failures) internally and externally with business leaders and all relevant stakeholders
- Drive alignment on product features, business metrics, and business strategies across the organisation
- Identify business opportunities to expand, automate, or optimize our product offering
- Market and competitor research and insights
- Facilitate and drive innovation of new products that align with business strategy and user needs
- Evolve product strategy based on research, data, and industry trends.
- Proactively identify and resolve strategic issues or bottlenecks that may impair the team’s ability to meet strategic, financial, and technical goals.
- Partner management and commercial negotiations
- Margin management from an income statement and product perspective
Requirements
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
- BA or BS in a technical field
- 8+ years of product management experience in a leadership capacity’ – including developing technical products in a high growth environment, from inception to delivery
- A strong technical background with software development or technical management experience, and an understanding of the software development life cycle
- Experience working on projects with cross functional teams in an Agile environment
- Business Development or Growth Management experience and experience in creating campaigns and driving product awareness
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex data and information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences, including executives and technical/non-technical leaders
- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
- Experience in owning a suite of products and defining long-term product strategy and vision aligned with the customers need in mind
- Experience creating complex technical and functional specifications aligned with business requirements and customer needs
- Previous experience in / with the informal, banking or retail industry will be an advantage
- Previous experience in using a mix of legacy and new modular systems to deliver outcomes
- The ability to work with and influence remote teams
- Strong and supportive leader with a proven track record
- Budgeting and forecasting experience
SKILLS/ATTRIBUTES:
- Maturity, high judgment, negotiation skills, and the ability to influence others
- A mix of technical and creative talent and exceptional leadership skills – these are key factors to success in this role
- That you are proactive, thoughtful, thorough, decisive, and flexible
- That you always conduct yourself professionally and with integrity
- That you are proficient in strategic, analytical, and critical thinking
- That you have high EQ
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