This role supervises all areas of product and platform management, ensuring that new products fit the organization's digital strategy. They lead the strategy and roadmap for IT products, working with stakeholders to prioritize and achieve business goals. Embracing a "digital dreamer" mindset, they focus on continuous improvement, automation, API-centered thinking, and data-driven analysis.
The main duties include:
- Authorized to make decisions regarding product capabilities for the organization.
- Establishes the product vision and roadmap.
- Acts as the primary authority on product content.
- Defines and prioritizes the product backlog to deliver a comprehensive, valuable product.
Product Management:
- Gain deep understanding of business goals and processes to inform product priorities and improvements.
- Foster strong relationships and regular communication with product stakeholders and customers to shape product strategy and identify priority needs.
- Lead product strategy, planning, and lifecycle management efforts.
- Provide insights on technology trends and emerging capabilities.
- Identify technology solutions to meet business and financial objectives while ensuring alignment with technology standards.
- Utilize information input to continuously enhance and evolve product lines.
- Collaborate to ensure alignment between product strategy and technology capabilities.
- Research business, market, and technology trends to enhance product strategy and propose new solutions.
- Develop product roadmap and release plans to achieve business outcomes and align with global standards.
- Translate business requirements into actionable product and technical requirements with a focus on UI/UX.
- Monitor and evaluate product performance, advocating for proactive product improvements.
- Determine internal and external resources needed for the product team to execute the product roadmap.
Experience, Knowledge, and Skills:
- 8-10 years minimum in Digital Product Management.
- SAP solutions exposure (S/4 Hana, SAP BTP, SAP SuccessFactors) is advantageous.
- 3-5 years startup experience.
- Proficiency in front-end, back-end, and database coding.
- Hands-on product architecture skills, including past Enterprise Architect roles.
- Previous tech startup involvement.
- Advanced knowledge in Reactjs, React Native, Flutter, Nodejs, MongoDB, SQL, and APIs.
- Experience as a Scrum Manager and with Agile Project methodologies.
- Familiarity with Jira or similar Kanban tools.
- Figma design skills (preferred) and UX testing experience.
Technical Competencies:
- Scrum Manager proficiency with SAP knowledge and integration.
- Agile Project Management Certification required.
- Hands-on expertise in Flutter, Reactjs, React Native, Jira, Java, JavaScript, .NET C#, APIs, MongoDB, SQL, and integration A/B testing.
- Good understanding of UI/UX design principles.