What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Product Manager position at Kitestring?
Principle Duties and Responsibilities
- Leads staff in the study of end-user needs, definition of product features and coordination of activities across teams to meet quality standards, project deadlines and business objectives.
- Oversees the following: gathering and writing of requirements for application features that require cross-team coordination; conducting competitive analyses; and using product discovery techniques to aid in prioritization of features (e.g., A/B, surveys, interviews, etc.). (10%)
- Leads staff in developing long-term product plans (i.e., roadmaps). (20%)
- Reviews reports on product utilization prepared by staff and identifies market trends and opportunities. (10%)
- Prepares project reports for management, clients or others. (20%)
- Confers with staff and others to provide technical advice and resolve problems. (20%)
- Provides supervision to assigned staff, including hiring, counseling, guiding, training, and disciplinary processes as required. (20%)
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, marketing, business administration or related field, and 10 years of experience as a Product Manager or similar role in an Agile, Scrum, Kanban or comparable environment; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Strong customer-facing digital subject matter expertise with experience working on medium complexity features and/or an entire software application.
- 2 years of people management experience.