Product Manager

Thomson Reuters; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 1,500,000 - 1,900,000; Full time

Job summary

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Product Manager to drive the Digital Commerce Platform, shaping vision, strategy, and quarterly roadmaps. You will work with cross-functional teams to plan, build, launch, and optimize propositions, while leading backlog health and sprint ceremonies.

You will partner with engineers and architects to translate customer needs into user stories, define success metrics, and communicate roadmap priorities across stakeholders in a fast-paced enterprise environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in Agile (Scrum preferred) with understanding of development lifecycle.
• Ability to write clear user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Proven experience partnering with architects/engineers and product teams.
• Experience delivering high-impact iterative products in fast-paced environments.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills across multiple levels.

Responsibilities

• Lead product planning, discovery, build, launch and post-launch management of new or enhanced propositions.
• Participate in cross-functional meetings to ensure on-time delivery.
• Support and lead front-end scrum teams and maintain backlog health.
• Define features, benefits and competitive positioning for stakeholders.
• Plan 1-2 quarters in advance for design and development.
• Monitor metrics and drive data-driven prioritization for roadmaps.

Skills

Agile (Scrum)

Stakeholder communication

User stories

Roadmapping

Cross-functional leadership

Job description

In this role, the product manager role will serve our Digital Commerce Platform (DCP), building out products and features that support our customers' ability to try, upsell, and renew Thomson Reuters products and services to grow their businesses. They will develop a comprehensive and bold product vision, strategy, roadmap, breaking out epics into applicable quarters through extensive quarterly planning with cross-functional teams.

About the Role

In this opportunity as a Product Manager, you will:

• Product planning, discovery, build, launch and post launch management new and / or enhanced proposition, products and/or services, including design, development, and launch activities
• Participate in or lead cross-functional meetings to ensure on-time, in-scope delivery
• Product planning, discovery, build, launch and post launch management new and / or enhanced proposition, products and/or services, including design, development, and launch activities
• Participate in or lead cross-functional meetings to ensure on-time, in-scope delivery
• Responsible for supporting and leading front-end scrum teams
• Responsible for backlog health, leading sprint reviews, refinement meetings, and participating in sprint demos.
• Create standards, processes, and policies and participate in testing/validation.
• Responsible for the planning of 1-2 quarters in advance of execution for both design and development
• Ability to test out hypothesis and experiment to help inform future roadmaps.
• Data driven approach when prioritizing backlog, defining what success looks like prior to launch and monitoring post launch.
• Conduct or participate in market and competitive analysis to drive the creation and positioning of propositions, products, or services.
• Supports definition and communication of features and benefits/key selling points and competitive positioning to key stakeholders.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to communicate effectively to all levels of stakeholders, cross functional teams.
• Develop and execute plans to sunset obsolete propositions, products, or services.
• May support commercial facing teams in client engagement and retention activities.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the company's propositions, products, or services and industry trend.
• Additional responsibilities include conducting experiments to test out hypothesis, executing POCs to prioritize backlogs, setting key business objectives (OKRs) for their product and then execute on the delivery of that strategy and roadmap while monitoring GTM enhancements, reporting on metrics to define next iteration of enhancement with thorough operational monitoring

About You:

• You've honed your product development playbook which includes leading with customer-driven innovation backed by qualitative and quantitative data
• 3+ years in Agile (Scrum preferred) environment, with a proven understanding of the development life cycle, including but not limited to requirements definition, user experience, development practices, testing, and deployment
• Proven ability to take initiative within a matrix organization to build strong, productive relationships based on excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• History of partnering and collaborating with architects and engineers in writing clear user stories
• Demonstrated ability to achieve bold strategic goals in an innovative and fast-paced environment and able to flex between multiple workstreams
• Demonstrated ability to develop an inspiring product vision, strategy, and roadmap
• Ability to communicate complex concepts in easy-to-understand terminology
• Able to apply knowledge of how a product is designed, built, deployed, and maintained in an enterprise environment; you transparently manage risk by collaborating with team, keeping stakeholders informed, and unpack your principles and approach
• Experience with technology and ability to facilitate communication between business and technology teams (bonus points for having software engineering or data analytics in your background)
• Track record of delivering high-impact iterative products that solve big customer problems, delivered on time and on budget
• Ability to articulate clear and concise specifications for new products and new features with a strong affinity towards the developer community
• Understands at a high level the landscape of tools and technologies that developers use to bring products to market
• Strong communication skills with demonstrated ability to articulate and evangelize a strategy at every level of the organization
• Ability to prioritize new feature launches based on competitive analysis, industry trends, emerging technologies, and company vision
• Proven ability to work under rapid development cycles with large teams to achieve a common goal
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional team(s) without formal authority

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