Product Manager (Functional Focus)
| Location | Cape Town, South Africa |
| Date Posted | November 20, 2022 |
| Category |
Management
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| Job Type |
Full-time
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| Currency | ZAR |
Description
Parvana Strategic Sourcing has established itself as a leading provider of permanent and temporary recruitment services to the South African, European and UK marketplace. In addition to this we have enjoyed considerable success in Australia and other part
Duties & Responsibilities
Responsibilities:
- Translating the long-term vision / strategy for the Product line into a medium range feature roadmap.
- Engaging with various parties on product messaging, value propositions and upcoming features.
- Contributing to and ensuring that the required Sales enablement deliverables are completed.
- Translating the roadmap into a delivery backlog of sprint-level stories/cards.
- Building the required release plans for each product based on the roadmap.
- Prioritising the delivery team's sprint-level deliverables according to value.
- Identifying sprint-level items that should be deferred to future milestones or sprints.
- Working closely with the Team Lead, Technical Lead, UX Designer and Engineers.
- Participating in and ensuring that functional design tasks are completed.
- Maintaining the overall functional coherence of the product.
- Ensuring that the implementation & support enablement deliverables are completed.
- Tracking progress against the release plans for each product.
- Producing the required release notes for each release.
- Tracking the defined input metrics for each product and with each release.
- Actively contributing to regular strategic workshops.
- Engaging frequently with the customers and users of the product.
- Demonstrating continuing industry expertise and relevance.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in a relevant Technical, Business or Design field
Skills / Experience:
- 5 years experience working in a software product development team.
- At least 2 years' experience as a Product Owner or Business Analyst.
- 2 years of Engineering / BA / SME / Product Owner experience.
- Excellent understanding of the payments industry landscape.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- The ability to prioritise ruthlessly and focus on the essential drivers of value.
- Curious about technology and its application to payments and transaction processing.
- Good analytical and quantitative skills and the ability to use data from a variety of sources to inform decisions.
Desired Experience & Qualification
Product Manager, Financial Services, Payments, Software