Data Product Manager

Role

AwanTunai is looking for a Data Product Manager who will oversee the development and strategy of data-driven products, ensuring they meet user needs and business goals.

Responsibilities

1. Product Vision and strategy. Define roadmap and value proposition. 

2. Ideation management.

3. Market research and requirement management.

4. Go-to-market planning and execution.

5. Engage regularly with Sales and Delivery teams to understand current and anticipated needs of customers across different geographies and industries.

6. Analyze product feature requests and uncover deeper customer needs to develop personas and user stories that communicate requirements and shape product development.

7. Work closely with the Product Team comprising Data Scientists and Engineers to analyze user stories, identify tasks required to complete the stories, and estimate effort and resources required.

8. Prioritize product features to be developed, balancing customer demand and potential commercial value, with available resources.

9. Ensure that product release plans are executed efficiently, on time and on budget.

10. Organize, communicate and coordinate the work to be done by the Product team in each sprint, using Scrum methodologies.

11. Work closely with all stakeholders to identify, troubleshoot and find solutions to product development obstacles.

12. Review product features developed against acceptance criteria, and evaluate whether features are ready for release.

13. Advise Sales and Delivery teams on product technical information and release plans.

Requirements

1. BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent.

2. 3+ years of experience in software development, business analysis, or product management for technology products.

3. Proven leadership experience in aligning and mobilizing team members towards achieving a common goal.

4. Demonstrated intuition for understanding customer needs from different perspectives, and ability to translate needs into product requirements.

5. Multi-skilled, curious and eager to learn a spectrum of hard and soft skills, including data analytics, software development, design thinking, project management, leadership, communication, market strategy.

6. Ability to think strategically (big picture, long term) and tactically (detailed, short term), and to align both perspectives.

7. Excellent organizational skills, and proven ability to analyze, prioritize and align numerous workstreams, customer requests and priorities towards a coherent, elegant solution.

8. Demonstrated clear and thorough logical and analytical thinking, as well as problem solving skills.

9. Superior and proactive communications skills, including verbal, written, and presentation.

10. A proven team player and contributor.

11. Self-directed, ability to work independently and research innovative solutions to business problems.