What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Manager - Technical position at hireVouch?
Product Manager - Technical
Who we seek:
Great work needs great people. Our client is an award-winning team of designers, engineers, and product innovators. They like to play in the dark and aren’t afraid of the unknown, especially when it comes to building new products and businesses!
They are constantly working on new products to solve gaps that they see in the market and are always looking for others with the same passion.
In addition to their own products, they also work with global brands to help build net-new digital products using the same methodology. They’ve built class-leading products with major brands across sports, automotive, healthcare, fitness, insurance, media, and games.
Their headquarters are in Irvine, CA and they also have a vibrant center of operations in Toronto, ON.
Responsibilities:
- Guiding clients through product innovation, prototype, validation, and development
- Owning the Product plan and communicating progress
- Maintaining a strong and positive relationship with clients
- Managing story creation and backlog
- Collaborating with clients, designers, engineers, marketing, sales, and other business functions
- Coaching, mentoring and sharing information on a regular basis
- Sharing your knowledge of processes, tools and methodologies to new Product Managers
- Ability to travel as required by client and engagement needs
- 2 years of digital product management experience
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or other technical field is highly preferred
- Experience managing technical products, preferably APIs
- Previous experience leading a software development engagement on behalf of a client
- Experience contributing to the design, development, or project management of software applications
- Strong problem solving and decision making skills
- Effective communication skills, both written and verbal
- A flexible, driven, highly-organized and self-starter personality
- Ability to excel in a fast-paced, collaborative and constantly changing workplace
- Experience with design and innovation focused client engagements
- Solid understanding of Design Thinking and Lean Startup methodologies
- Client-facing skills and the ability to build strong relationships with the C-suite
