Software Product Manager

Your role as a Lead Software Product Manager will be to work extensively with various departments across the company globally to: • Lead and mentor a team of Software Product Managers, providing guidance and direction to ensure successful product delivery. • Consistently deliver high-quality, easily understood Product Requirements, which consider customer needs, application context and engineering principles. • Motivate and lead a dedicated team of engineers, designers, architects and QA Testers • Be the voice of the customer - Gathering, reviewing, and prioritising feedback to drive continual service and process improvement. Specifically, you will: • Confidently and clearly communicate with internal and external stakeholders/teams at various levels, articulating product & team progress, focus and direction of travel. • Install rigorous and persistent prioritisation and re-prioritisation methods across your product backlog and roadmap, predicting and responding to scenarios that arise during product development. • Accurately assess the realistic business and customer value behind new and existing ideas that come up during the product development. Be accountable for the effective creation of key Product deliverables such as: • Product requirements & acceptance criteria • Backlog/Release management and refinement • Roadmap creation & maintenance • Technical prototypes and proof of concepts • Technical documentation • Product presentations, training & education • Competitor & Market analysis Qualification Been there, done that: We require prior experience in either Product Owner or Business Analyst roles, it doesnt need to be decades, but it is essential that you bring to the table evidence of writing requirements/acceptance criteria, prioritising complex backlogs, and working with broad internal and external stakeholders. Assess & Decide: We dont need you to be an engineering expert, or to have worked in this specific industry before, but we do need you to possess the ability to quickly assess the technical feasibility, relative cost and risks around solution options, and make good, informed decisions you can stand behind and evidence with data. Process Pro & Eye for Detail: You should hold excellent process analysis and mapping skills and want nothing more than to uncover all the detail involved with a requirement in order to distil into the pertinent information your team requires. All about Agile: Demonstratable knowledge of Agile development processes is desired but we also require you to be adaptable to change, particularly where there are varying levels of process adoption, we want you to embrace difference and fundamentally deliver. Confident Communicator: Holding a strong ability to clearly communicate with and manage broad stakeholders across multiple departments and geographies is critical to the success of the role. Desirable Requirements: • Formal Agile/Scrum Product Owner certification • A background in, or demonstrated awareness of, Cyber Security products • An awareness of developing or working with SaaS platforms • Internal customer focused • Active contributor • Works effectively with others as a team and collaborates as one • Adds Value • Personal responsibility and accountability • Communicates openly and respectfully • Open mindset • Growth and development W Originally posted on Himalayas Product-Manager, Product-Owner, Technical-Product-Manager, Software-Product-Manager, Software-Product-Management, SaaS-Product-Manager