Associate Technical Product Manager

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Job Purpose
We are looking for an Associate Product Manager to participate in the creation of new products and features, from the idea stage to launch. Your main responsibilities include gathering product requirements, prioritizing feature implementations and improving overall user experience. Our ideal candidates should combine technical background with a Business Administration degree. Ultimately, you’ll work with internal global teams to build products that fill gaps in the market and increase customer satisfaction.

Key Responsibilities

• Contributing to problem and solution discovery efforts by conducting internal stakeholder and customer interviews and research, and developing and running experiments to validate concepts
• Driving Agile ceremonies, including planning, grooming, demos, and retrospectives.
• Writing stories that articulate work to be done by Engineering, Data Science in support of solutions and production support.
• Working closely with Engineering to ensure solutions are ultimately delivered in a timely and cost-effective manner.
• Working closely with our stakeholder team to understand the business and adapt solutions as it evolves.
• Preparing project status and risk management reports.
• Supporting Customer Support, Sales Enablement, and Product Marketing in the development of feature descriptions and new release content.
• Maintaining a prioritized backlog that aligns with available Engineering capacity and maps to an overall solution roadmap.
• Performing validation testing of production releases, bug fixes, and feature requests.
• Create support and training documents for internal and external users

Key Skills

• A bachelor's or master's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field is often preferred
• 1+ years experience in product management or a similar discipline in a SaaS o DaaS environment
• Additional certifications in Product Management, Agile methodologies, or related areas can be advantageous.
• Knowledge of project and product management tools like Jira and Aha.
• Familiarity with complex data methodologies to combine data assets into products.
• Time management skills.
• Good communication skills along with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross functional teams.
• A customer-first approach by anchoring and solving customer problems rapidly, aligning data-driven decisions with customer needs