Product Manager I

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

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Product Manager in Sharjah. The role involves setting priorities, accepting work from a team, and ensuring valuable product functionality. Candidates should have a background in Technical Engineering or Computer Science, along with at least 4 years of experience in related roles. Familiarity with collaboration tools like Slack and JIRA is essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years of experience as a business analyst, QA, product owner, or UX designer.
• Aviation domain experience is highly preferred.
• Proven track record of successful on-time delivery.

Responsibilities

• Owns the entire product backlog and delivery activities.
• Ensures stories are ready before the sprint starts.
• Liaise between business and development teams.

Skills

Collaboration

Backlog Management

Market Research

Communication

Education

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

Certified SCRUM Master or Professional Certified Product Owner

Tools

Slack

JIRA

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

Qualifications (Academic, training, languages)

• 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