Product Manager

Air Arabia; Sharjah; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading airline company is seeking a Product Manager responsible for setting priorities and accepting work from the development team. This role involves managing the product backlog, ensuring successful delivery of features, and liaising with business and development teams. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree in Technical Engineering or similar, with 4+ years of related experience. Familiarity with SCRUM methodology and user story writing is preferred, along with experience in the aviation domain.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience as a business analyst, QA, product owner, UX designer, or architect.
• Strong technical background with software development understanding.
• Aviation domain experience is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage the product backlog and delivery activities.
• Ensure stories are ready before each sprint.
• Liaise between business and development teams.
• Review visual designs from the UX team.
• Monitor performance of the development teams.

Skills

Product backlog management

SCRUM methodology

User story writing

Collaboration tools (Slack, JIRA)

Understanding of UI/UX design

Performance monitoring

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Technical Engineering or Computer Science or Math

Certified SCRUM Master or Professional Certified Product Owner

Job description

Job Purpose

• Product Manager is a professional responsible for setting prioritizing and accepting the work generated by a team in order to ensure the most valuable and proper functionality of the product.
• Responsible for develops product concepts generates product requirements determines specifications
• Collaborates with UX designers to come up with usable emotionally attaching and inspecting products that meet users expectations
• Responsible for delivering right product features at the right time and maximising development team performance

Key Result Responsibilities

• Accountable for the success of delivery, owns the entire product backlog and delivery activities this includes grooming development teams responding to queries of the development team promptly
• Ensures stories are ready before the sprint start matching definition of ready and having clear acceptance criteria
• Manages and prioritizes the product backlog along with the Product Manager which matches product vision and client needs
• Liaise between business and development teams to deliver continuous value
• Reviews visual designs developed by UX team
• Reviews test cases written by QA team
• Stays abreast with market trends and new technologies in the domain, researches and conducts comparative analysis with competitors to recommend best practices
• Monitors the development and product teams performance and escalates any potential performance deviation to Product Managers
• Represents ISA in clients’ meetings, solicits feedback on products and services regularly
• Performs any other additional duties as directed by the Product Manager or Senior Product Manager
• Acts as a Product Manager 2 in absence of Product Manager 2

Key Result Responsibilities-Continued

• Bachelors Degree in Technical Engineering or Computer Science or Math or equivalent
• Certified SCRUM Master or Professional Certified Product Owner (Optional)
• Solid technical background with understanding in software development
• Comfortable using collaboration tools such as Slack JIRA
• Fluent in English Language

Work Experience

• MInimum 4 years of experience as a business analyst QA product owner or UX designer or architect
• Aviation domain expereince is highly preferred
• Experienced in writing user stories business requirements
• Experienced in SCRUM methodology
• Proven track record of successful on time delivery
• Good understanding of UI or UX design
• Good understanding of software testing ability to review and approve test cases