Business Analyst / Product Manager

Digital Advantage; Eastern Province; On-site; SAR 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic digital agency in Saudi Arabia is searching for a Product Manager to lead the lifecycle of digital products. This role includes defining product vision, managing cross-functional teams, and working directly with clients to ensure successful project execution. The ideal candidate will possess strong problem-solving skills, a background in digital product management, and be fluent in both English and Arabic. This position offers a competitive compensation package and unique opportunities for growth within the company.

Benefits

Competitive compensation package

Flexible work schedules

Opportunity for training in the U.S.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in Digital Product Management or Business Analysis.
• Solid technical background for launching websites or apps.
• Experience managing cross-functional teams and product roadmapping.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills in English and Arabic.

Responsibilities

• Define product vision and strategy with cross-functional teams.
• Manage the product lifecycle from conception to launch.
• Work closely with clients to define requirements and approvals.
• Coordinate release processes and manage dependencies.

Skills

Digital Product Management

Problem solving

User Experience Design (UX/CX)

Strong communication skills (English and Arabic)

Job description

Hello There, Fellow Web Enthusiast...We Want You Onboard!
You were born with the ability (no, actually the consuming need) to help launch world-class web and mobile applications for you, your team, and your lucky clients to achieve their business objectives.

You’re smart, articulate, and diplomatic. And you’re the Practice Leader we have been looking for. You realize that Product Managers are the heart and sole of successful development agencies and are responsible for guiding the success of a project and leading the cross-functional team that is responsible for launching and improving it. It is an important organizational role — especially in technology companies — that helps sets the strategy, roadmap, and feature definition for a website, mobile application, or web enabled platform.

About Us: Company Description

Digital | Advantage is a leading digital agency operating in Saudi Arabia and across the GCC. We partner with clients, founders, & investors to build and sustain digital advantage. This includes a wide range of activities ranging from Web / Mobile Application design and development, to social media management and optimization, and designing and executing state of the art digital marketing campaigns.

We are currently headquartered in Jeddah, have offices at KAEC and Amman, and staff working directly with clients in Riyadh and Dammam.

The Opportunity: Benefits We Offer the Right Candidates

We offer a unique workplace and culture that truly rewards performance and effort over other more superficial characteristics such as age, tenure, time spent in the office and previous job titles. This allows our team members to grow more quickly, accelerate their careers, and get tremendous exposure to top-notch clients and advisors (regionally and in the U.S.). We value ambition, skills training, and entrepreneurship and provide flexible work schedules and unique opportunities – including work travel / training in the U.S. with leaders in the digital space.

Job Description

Job Description: What You’ll Do

The Product Manager reports directly to the Managing Director and is responsible for defining the what, why, and of the product that the development team builds. This means they lead cross-functional teams from a product's conception all the way through to its launch.

Here are the core aspects of the role that all product managers should feel accountable for:

The product manager is responsible for helping set a product vision and strategy. Their job is to clearly articulate the business value to the client or company so they understand the intent behind the new product or product release. The product manager owns the roadmap and must prioritize building what matters most to achieve the strategic goals and initiatives behind the product.

Ideation and Business / Functional Requirements Definition

Every organization wants better ideas — but it is tough to manage and prioritize them. Product managers own the creative process of generating, developing, and curating new ideas. They determine which ideas should be promoted into features to push the product strategy forward — namely those that will achieve key objectives for the product line and business. To this end, they also ensure that feedback and requests are seamlessly integrated into their product planning and development processes. Product managers then communicate the status of ideas back to the customers, partners, and internal team members who submitted them.

The product manager starts by defining the goals and KPIs of the project, articulating the end vision and starts to outline the initial Information Architecture for the UI and back-end platforms.

Depending of the size of the project, Product Managers then either develop or work with a UI specialist to map out the screens, page flows, templates and/or wireframes for the product.

Product Managers take a long list of features, and helps rank them against strategic goals and initiatives. This requires making difficult trade-off decisions based on the value that new features will deliver to customers and to the business. The product manager is also responsible for defining and documenting the requirements for each feature and the desired user experience. Product managers work closely with development team on the technical specifications and ensure that teams have all of the information they need to deliver a complete product to market.

Building great products is invigorating. Successful products are built and adopted by customers when a group of committed, focused, and passionate team members play their positions to the best of their abilities. This starts with a strong product manager who feels a deep sense of responsibility for their role and managing what is defined above.

Releases

Product managers must plan what their teams will deliver and the timeline for implementation. This holds true no matter which development methodology the development team uses. The product manager is responsible for defining the release process and coordinating all of the activities required to bring the product to market. This involves bridging gaps between different functions within the company and aligning all of the teams involved — namely marketing, sales, and customer support.

Responsibilities also include managing dependencies in and across releases to complete release phases and milestones.

Account Management

Product managers are direct interfaces with our clients and are expected to work closely with clients and stakeholders to define requirements and gain approvals. This means frequent visits to client site and excellent reporting of progress and new requests.

Management and Business Development

Some of our best Product Managers were actually our best sources of business development because they kept their eyes and ears open for new opportunities at existing clients.
In some cases you will have a small team to manage (younger business associates and business analysts usually). At times you will be asked to help recruit, train, and mentor our Product Management team members and lead the development of organization-wide standards, policies and rules of engagement.

Qualifications

Where You’ve Been & The Skills You Now Possess

The ideal candidate for this position will have:

Proven work experience in Digital Product Management or Business Analysis

Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience with defining whats needed to launch a website or mobile app.

Proven track record of managing all aspects of a successful product throughout its lifecycle including: leading the discovery and requirements gathering process, managing and /or working with cross-functional teams (some of them remote), and digital product roadmapping

Strong problem solving skills and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job done;

Polished, poised, professional, and can develop a strong client presence;

Well organized, can handle stress, ambiguity and deadlines.;

User / Customer Experience Design (UX/CX) and experience defining UI Design / Wireframes is preferrable

A passion for building websites and mobile apps and how they can best be leveraged by large businesses – particularly in the Saudi market

Aptitude to develop and maintain strong working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders

Outstanding written and verbal communication skills (both English and Arabic required)

Hard-working with an eagerness to take on new challenges, grow, and learn

Additional Information

Why Digital | Advantage?

You might be asking...so what’s in it for me? Aside from a competitive compensation package, you will have the chance to work with many leading organizations across KSA and the GCC and help them adapt to the disruptive changes brought on by the rise digital solutions. Finally, if you are so inclined, you may be directly involved in the development and launch of our own proprietary set offerings and transition to serve as a Co-Founder of a product we start developing in-house and eventually spinout.