Product Manager

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

Job summary

A leading airline provider in Sharjah is looking for a Product Manager responsible for managing the product backlog and ensuring successful delivery of product features. The ideal candidate should have a Bachelor's Degree in Technical Engineering, Computer Science, or similar, and a minimum of 4 years of experience in business analysis, QA, product ownership, or UX design. Strong collaboration with UX designers and expertise in software development tools are essential. The role requires proficiency in English.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Technical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent is required.
• Certified SCRUM Master or Professional Certified Product Owner is optional.
• Minimum 4 years of experience in a related role is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for the success of delivery and managing the product backlog.
• Ensures stories are ready before the sprint starts.
• Liaise between the business and development teams.

Skills

Product backlog management

Collaboration with UX designers

Understanding of software development

Fluent in English

Education

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

Tools

Slack

JIRA

Job description

Overview

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

1. 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
2. Ensures stories are ready before the sprint start matching definition of ready and having clear acceptance criteria
3. Manages and prioritizes the product backlog along with the Product Manager which matches product vision and client needs
4. Liaise between business and development teams to deliver continuous value
5. Reviews visual designs developed by UX team
6. Reviews test cases written by QA team
7. Stays abreast with market trends and new technologies in the domain, researches and conducts comparative analysis with competitors to recommend best practices
8. Monitors the development and product teams performance and escalates any potential performance deviation to Product Managers
9. Represents ISA in clients’ meetings, solicits feedback on products and services regularly
10. Performs any other additional duties as directed by the Product Manager or Senior Product Manager
11. Acts as a Product Manager 2 in absence of Product Manager 2

Key Result Responsibilities - Continued

Qualifications (Academic, training, languages)

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

Work Experience

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