Product Manager

Company Description

You’ll join Xplor Recreation and our Engineering team, the team that builds and maintains software that helps municipalities and government organizations of all sizes connect with their community. Xplor Recreation makes managing operations, payment processing, membership management, and program ordination effortless. 

Job Description

Job Description

Role Expectations: 

A successful Product Manager can independently lead and manage a business or product area within a brand.  They are able to pinpoint customer value and identify iterative MVP solutions that can be delivered through collaboration with design and engineering team members. A successful Product Manager engages internal stakeholders to drive product understanding and establish a strong public narrative for release. They are continuously developing expertise in their business or product area through research, competitive analysis, emerging technologies and market trends.  A Product Manager owns the management their roadmap and must have a clear understanding of the reasoning behind each decision, however they must consult their Brand Product Lead prior to making key changes to the roadmap.   

Job Responsibilities: 

• Owns planning, vision, and implementation of features for your product area 
• Engage current and prospective customer to understand and analyze their needs, business practices, and future plans 
• Identify areas of improvement with your existing product area and fresh opportunities to thrill the market 
• Engage internal stakeholders to drive product releases and support the public narrative for feature releases. 
• Deliver clear and comprehensive product requirements to provide guidance to the development team 
• Own the management and grooming of a product backlog ensuring tickets are ready to be pulled into upcoming sprints.
• Able to articulate user stories for the team by breaking down features/epics. 
• Engage sales, marketing, and customer support to capture customer feedback and to ensure prompt and seamless delivery to the market 
• Align your product roadmap with the broader product strategy and find balance in delivery between long term investments, shorter term wins, and tech debt 
• Partake in the Scrum process and help drive effective scrum ceremonies including standups, grooming sessions, sprint planning, and retrospectives. 
• Outline key metrics for success and articulate plans for continuous measurement and iteration.  
• Ability to focus on customer value and identify MVP solutions that deliver on that value with the least amount of time, effort and risk 
• Identify and eliminate low value work undertaken by their agile team 
• Engage with design, research, and development to clearly articulate customer pain points and build a process for effective problem solving 

Qualifications

• 6+ years  of relevant product owner/manager experience managing software products from inception through launch and iteration 
• Have worked in a SaaS Organization and were able to launch multiple features.
• Ability to operate and engage with a product team with minimal supervision
• Experience working in an Agile Scrum environment 
• Empathetic: you have a talent for understanding what our customers are trying to achieve and why they are trying to achieve it  
• Analytic: you can spot the commonalities in seemingly different customer requests and identify opportunities to address them with a unified solution  
• Innovative: you have a flair for bold ideas that can potentially deliver game-changing competitive advantages  
• Strategic: you can slice big projects into pragmatic MVPs that maximize customer value with the least amount of time, effort and risk  
• Collaborative: you believe that a team works best when everyone is communicating daily about how each person’s piece fits in the shared vision 

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

We kindly ask you to apply through our careers portal or external job boards (LinkedIn, Naukri, Indeed, etc) only. Please don't send your application via email. They will not be forwarded. 

More about us 

We are the first global platform combining SaaS with embedded payments and tools to help businesses grow and succeed. We offer software solutions in fast-growing “everyday life” verticals: Education, Fitness & Wellbeing, Field Services and Personal Services – and a global, cloud-based payment processing platform. With operations in North America, Australasia, Asia, Europe, and the UK, we serve over 106,000 customers that processed over $38 billion in payments across 20 markets in 2024.

Good to know

To be considered for employment, you must be legally authorised to work in the location (country) you're applying for. Xplor does not sponsor visas, either at the time of hire or at any later time. 

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