Product Manager

About the job
Role: Product Manager

Location: Seattle, WA

Duration: 12 months (High potential for further long-term extension)

Job Description

Tell us about your department:

The App Growth team is working to elevate app experience, increase app downloads and drive engagement with a view to deepening our relationship with customers by becoming more relevant in their lives.

Summary

Position Summary/Job Description:

Responsible for driving all strategy, new development, and performance enhancements for specific set of products within a product category. Manages the end-to-end product lifecycle from idea inception through development and launch.

Education/Experience

Bachelor’s degree in an IT-related discipline - PMP certification - preferred - 3-5 years’ experience managing projects Skills and Competencies.
Strong skills in Microsoft Project to manage a detailed project plan.
Excellent follow up to ensure tasks are being delivered according to plan.
Understanding of website development and associated back-end connection task Strong leadership skills.
Strong communication skills.

Major Job Duties And Responsibilities

Lead development and implementation of product strategy: Incorporate deep understanding of customer insights, markets, competition, and distribution capabilities to define product strategy.
This should manifest itself in a roadmap of initiatives including small enhancement and content refreshments to existing products as well as new product needs - Measure product performance and lead performance improvement initiatives.
Identify and understand the performance of drivers and set up ongoing diagnostics and monitoring capabilities.
Drive new product development.
create sound business cases around all new products based on needs assessment and projected feasibility. Incorporate a user/customer centric approach to all development efforts.
Engage appropriate product support teams and developers early in the process to capture full perspective in creating “best fit” products.
Communicate product information: including product roadmap, specifications, value proposition, sales tools training tools and competitive information to stakeholders.
Provide status updates to PMO for regular reporting cycles.
Manage product lifecycles: continually evaluate product performance and key customer insights and ensure new product needs are identified far enough in advance to address needs before product obsolescence.

Skills Overview

What are the top five skills and number of years of experience required to perform this job?

4+ years’ experience in product management and strategy; ideally with experience in mobile apps, ecommerce, customer acquisition and/or product marketing
4+ years’ experience working with product teams in an agile environment, i.e. working directly with product managers, user experience, engineering, business teams, and related disciplines to drive improvements to customer experience or business outcomes.
Proficiency in building strategic roadmaps that combine big ideas and iterative improvements to deliver maximum impact
High bar for performance excellence and rigor around qualitative and quantitative data and insights, competitive analyses, developing hypotheses, building, testing, and measuring impact(s)
Demonstrates an innovative, growth mindset and find ways to work through ambiguity and push through adversity to increase app downloads, grow active users, improve retention and engagement, and develop deeper relationships with key customer segments
Collaborative personality with excellent leadership, verbal and written communication skills

Must Have

PMP, MS Project, E-commerce industry backgrounds, and Mobile app experience.