-Job title: Senior Data Product Manager
-Job location: Abu-Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
-Position Type: Permanent
Profile Summary:
The Senior Data Product Manager helps setting out the strategy alongside the product leadership. Always considering the larger business objectives and aligning them with customer needs to design and develop products and features throughout its lifecycle. The role is responsible for researching and articulating the needs, quality standards for products to be developed. It is also responsible to rally with appropriate technology teams, using agile frameworks, to turn product vision into reality for our customers. The senior product manager has an exemplary position in which they help guide the product team to continuously improve and revise their way of working.
Key Responsibilities:
Product Design & Analysis
Product Planning
– Detail product vision through planning, prioritization, and roadmaps to enable predictable customer delivery
? Balance the ideas and specifications of business objective, user experience and technology capability to plan scope, schedule, and cost parameters for product development
? Work with multiple internal stakeholders to intake and prioritize data/analysis requests, scope and define detailed requirements for data analyst and data science team members.
? Translate product strategy and ideas into detailed user stories and acceptance criteria
? Scope and prioritize activities based on business and customer impact objectives
? Define KPIs and product metrics for features, ensuring necessary data is collected and reviewed and updated regularly throughout the product life cycle Product Development – Work with technology teams to collaborate on goals and deliver to those goals to achieve business objectives
? Facilitate collaborative discussions with technology development teams to enable product development according to design and timeline specifications
? Work collaboratively with technology teams to overcome obstacles and deliver release stories quickly and adequately
? Work to promote data literacy across the organization to drive data-driven decision making culture; Collaborative Leadership – Responsible for managing communication and relationships across key stakeholders and teams in order to effectively lead and enable achievement of delivery goals
? Expected to take a leading role when it comes to continually improving processes within product as well as with other departments
? Mentoring medior and junior product managers, sharing knowledge and guiding them in creating valuable product iterations.
? Organize and enable high performing technology teams to achieve established KPI and objectives through agile methodologies
? Build effective relationships with team members, inviting and facilitating problem solving and idea generation to help empower individual capabilities
? Train, coach and develop team members as appropriate, ensuring clear expectations about contributions to the team are communicated and discussed in an open, collaborative team culture
? Evaluate and periodically review competencies throughout team, identifying areas for new training or further skill development to enable ongoing results
? Generate and share data driven reports about team performance, mission-related objectives, key results, and timelines
? Establish schedules, processes, deadlines, and targeted results to enable ongoing improvement and ability to achieve improving results
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in relevant field (engineering, technology, product)
Agile/Scrum Certification is an advantage Experience
6+ years of Product management related experience
3 years relevant experience working in agile/scrum environments
3 years of relevant professional experience with data teams in some combination of marketing, growth, product and/or analytics
Technical Skills Required
Experience managing holistic product management systems across multiple teams
Experience working with both creative and technology teams
Proven ability to develop product strategies, effectively communicate recommendations and break down strategy into actionable components for execution
Experience with leading and managing sizable agile technology-based teams
Agile/Scrum familiarity with foundational concepts and philosophies
Practical experience performing user research and market research
Strong data management and analytical abilities
Experience leading design and development of digital products
Experience using digital product planning tools including roadmap, user stories, acceptance criteria, etc.
Ability to understand business priorities and prioritize scarce resources appropriately.
Experience managing E-Learning platforms is a strong advantage
Previous experience with directly managing product managers is an advantage
Experience working with BI, Learning Analytics, Big Data and AI applications a strong advantage
Core Competencies Required
Great communication skills with the ability to manage stakeholder expectations and communications.
Outstanding verbal, written, presentation, facilitation, and interaction skills, including the ability to effectively communicate architectural issues and concepts to multiple organization levels and executive management.
An entrepreneurial attitude and excitement to build a new solution offering.
Outstanding verbal, written, presentation, facilitation, and interaction skills, including the ability to effectively communicate architectural issues and concepts to multiple organization levels and executive management.
An entrepreneurial attitude and excitement to build a new solution offering.
Product Management
Project Management
Leading cross-functional teams
English proficiency required – verbally and in writing