Associate Product Manager I

Role Proficiency:
Contributes to driving the Product Vision that addresses cross-domain market needs with strong business viability; in line with the Product/Platform Portfolio with guidance from Managers. Assists Managers in delivering the desired product and platform outcomes from original inspiration through implementation and support.rnContributes to the discovery and development of the product/platform per the phases and stages of the product/platform. as guided by the Product Managers.

Outcomes:

- A strong evangelist of Product & Platforms Division’s Vision and Philosophy.
- Performs primary and secondary research on Market Driven Products & Platforms; executes the product/platform strategy
- Ensures clear and unambiguous translation of Product Value Roadmap through deliverables to enable the product team to complete work
- Ensures adherence to the Product Value Roadmap set by Product Managers and Product Leadership
- Drafts user stories and ensures they are clearly understood by cross functional product teams
- Ensures Product requirements are gathered and prioritized
- Drives the execution of product development in collaboration with Product Team members comprised of Product Design Technology & Data Science
- Adherence to the modern product management practises and standards; providing periodic status updates
- Supports Product Managers and Senior Product Managers in product demos
- Supports in achieving the Product OKR's

Measures of Outcomes:

- Adherence to agreed product roll-out timelines
- Achievement of Product Metrics
- Achievement of Product OKR's
- Product Team Performance
- Number of domain and product certifications

Outputs Expected:
Plan to develop great products and platforms:

- Strong research enabling sound Product Discovery
- Co-facilitates Discovery Sprints under guidance from Product and Senior Product Managers
- Write and articulate great user stories by capturing and translating solutions for identified user problems into product features that deliver value and impress users
- Adherence to Product OKR's

Design to deliver vast end -user experience:

- Facilitate sound user research across target market segments
- Influence in implementing design user-centric experiences throughout the user's journey
- Assist in defining user experience (e.g. wire framing
journey maps); partnering with product designers

Research the market to ensure an unfair advantage:

- Sound understanding of market trends
partner ecosystems
and competitive strategies
- Understanding users
the marketplace
the competition and future trends for the domain or type of system being developed
through customer and market research
competitive analysis
and rapidly acquiring domain expertise
- Define and articulate unique product and business differentiation

Manage business to go to and win in the markets:

- Assist in implementing the GTM strategies and achieve the metrics for product success
- Protect assets and mitigate risks
employing IP knowledge

Manage great people:

- Inspire Product teams
communicate with diverse groups
and influence change throughout the organization

Use great technology:

- Good understanding and usage of tech stacks
- Good understanding of exponential technologies including AI/ML
IoT
Blockchain
- Agile proficiency for Rapid Product Discovery & Development
- Employ eminent technology in product management by diving deep into technology trends and architectures

Employ great methods in product management:

- Understand different product management and development approaches
- Understand product usage models

Skill Examples:

- Skill in understanding and articulating the core positioning messaging and value propositions for the product
- Ability to support product demos to customers/end users
- Ability to define the user experience to be incorporated into the User Design
- Aptitude in creating user stories
- Ability to creates market customer and competition research based on understanding of market trends partner ecosystems and competitive strategies
- Capable of motivating the team to build and deliver impressive products

Knowledge Examples:

- Domain / Industry Knowledge: Working knowledge of standard business processes within the relevant industry vertical and customer business domain
- Technology Trends Knowledge: Demonstrates broad knowledge of technology trends related to multiple inter-related technologies
- Proficient in user story writing
- Knowledge of market trends partner ecosystems and competitive strategies
- Proficient in product documentation
- Expertise in people management
- Knowledge of technology trends and architectures

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