Senior Technical Product Manager
Product Management, Jira, SQL, Relational Database, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Platforms
Description
The Senior Technical Product Manager role will entail contributing to strategy, vision, and shaping the product roadmap using your industry knowledge, technical acumen, and ability to influence while working with several cross-functional global and geo stakeholders (Business, Product, Engineering, UX, and Architecture).
Who We Are
GSPANN has been in business for over a decade, with over 1800 employees worldwide, and servicing some of the largest retail, high technology, and manufacturing clients in North America. We provide an environment that enables career growth while still interacting with company leadership.
Visit Why GSPANN for more information.
Location: Bangalore
Role Type: Full Time
Published On: 15 December 2022
Experience: 10+ Years
Description
The Senior Technical Product Manager role will entail contributing to strategy, vision, and shaping the product roadmap using your industry knowledge, technical acumen, and ability to influence while working with several cross-functional global and geo stakeholders (Business, Product, Engineering, UX, and Architecture).
Role and Responsibilities
- Apply product management and design thinking to deliver and evolve technology products that drive measurable value and delight users.
- Build and execute the product vision and roadmap to deliver our goals for cost, service, convenience, innovation, and sustainability.
- Drive excellence in product and platform strategy and execution.
- Work in close collaboration with various teams within Global Technology (e.g., Digital Technology Program Office, Engineering leaders) and key Functional Teams across the business (e.g., Business Product Management, Consumer Planning, MPU planning).
- Design creative, quality technical products, and enable business capabilities and objectives through technology.
- Own a product or platform of medium to high complexity and scale to deliver relevant features. Propose enhancements and be accountable for execution, measurement of outcomes, and continuous improvement.
- Drive product discovery and research to bring clarity to epics and features while partnering with cross-functional teams, including business, design, engineering, data science, architecture, and data teams. Be the final decision maker for prioritization of the team’s work
- Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the users of the product/platform and apply the same in developing proposals and in executing changes.
- Drive toward a north-star vision while building a high-performing squad aligned on a common goal.
- Participate in scrum ceremonies with the squad – backlog grooming, sprint planning, retro, etc.
- Represent your product in program ceremonies and contribute to the overall program roadmap.
- Highlight risks and remove roadblocks.
- Write and refine stories for clarity, business value, and acceptance criteria.
- Assist in customer adoption while partnering with business success managers.
- Celebrate wins with the team.
- Collaborate in the development of product and business KPIs to help inform product and platform decisions.
- Drive aligned priorities and sequencing factoring in value and outcomes.
- Drive adherence to all standard TPM ways of working (e.g., process, artifacts, templates, collaboration models).
- Track value delivered, product adoption, performance, and execution against the end-to-end roadmap and adjust roadmaps as necessary.
- Demonstrate data-driven decision-making and prioritize product and strategic decisions.
- Create user stories; define and manage backlog items in Jira.
- Work with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.
- Mentor and develop more junior product management talent.
- Work with a significant degree of autonomy, seeking support and guidance only on an exception basis.
- Conduct strategic quantitative and or qualitative analysis in a cross-functional enterprise environment in the tech industry to support and improve business operations involving program, process, or product management
- Manage day-to-day product communications and contribute to senior executive management reports and business presentations.
- Write both long and short-term product planning reports, including strategic market analysis, product placement, and financial/business reporting.
- Implement products through software as a service (SaaS) solutions and partnerships.
Skills and Experience
- 5+ years of experience in product management.
- Proven track record of successfully bringing planning solutions to market
- Exceptional interpersonal, communication (spoken and written), and presentation skills.
- Prior experience in SQL Server / Any RDBS is required for this position.
- Deep understanding and experience with Agile methodologies.
- Good understanding of supply chain or Planning applications built on AWS or other cloud platforms would be a plus.
- Strong analytical and data visualization skills.
- Must have excellent business acumen and communication skills along with strong knowledge of supply chain master, transaction data, and Master data management
- Excellent analysis and problem-solving skills; meeting and work session facilitation skills; and project planning and organizational skills are a must.
- Adapt to new technologies and tools, changing needs, processes, and ambiguity.
- Strong understanding of Design Thinking Concepts; Design Leadership; and Value-Driven Frameworks.
- Experience in product management, strategic management consulting, financial analysis, sales/business development, technology, and profit and loss management is a bonus.
