Job Description: Product Manager
Role Summary: We are looking for an Product Manager to support delivery of digital products. You will work closely with Product Managers, business stakeholders, and cross-functional engineering teams to support product strategy execution, backlog management, agile delivery, and stakeholder communications, including support during deployments and incident situations.
Key Responsibilities
Product Strategy & Backlog Management
- Support the Product Manager in translating product vision and business outcomes into clear deliverables.
- Assist to define and refine user stories, acceptance criteria, and prioritised backlog items.
- Maintain backlog hygiene (grooming, dependencies, sequencing) and ensure readiness for sprint execution.
- Support tracking of product metrics, delivery progress, and release objectives.
Agile Delivery Execution
- Participate in Agile ceremonies including stand-ups, refinement, sprint planning, sprint review, and retrospectives.
- Support sprint planning by coordinating story readiness, clarifying requirements, and aligning priorities with delivery capacity.
- Work with Scrum Master/Delivery Leads to manage sprint scope, risks, and delivery milestones.
Coordination with Development & Technical Teams
Coordinate with development teams working on:
- Backend: Node.js
- Frontend: Angular
- Database: Aurora MySQL, RDS SQL Server
- Cloud: AWS (S3, Lambda, EC2, CodeDeploy, KMS, ELB, ECS Fargate)
- OS: Amazon Linux 2023, Windows Server 2016/2019
- Security/Monitoring: Microfocus Fortify, ClamAV, Splunk Universal Forwarder
- Support technical discussions by documenting decisions, requirements clarifications, and non-functional expectations.
- Assist in ensuring requirements consider operational readiness, monitoring, security scanning, and deployment constraints.
Stakeholder Communication & Operational Support
- Assist in stakeholder updates on sprint progress, releases, and delivery risks/issues.
- Support communications during deployments, production incidents, and service interruptions, including status updates and coordination of action items.
- Contribute to preparation of release notes, user communications, and post-incident summaries where required.
Governance & Documentation
- Maintain clear documentation for product requirements, scope changes, and release deliverables.
- Support compliance to organisational governance practices (e.g., change control, approvals, audit readiness).
Requirements & Qualifications
Experience
- 1–3 years experience in product management, business analysis, project delivery, or scrum/product support roles.
- Hands‑on exposure to Agile/Scrum delivery in cross‑functional technology teams.
- Experience supporting product backlog management using tools such as Jira / Confluence (or equivalent).
Knowledge & Skills
- Strong ability to write clear user stories, define acceptance criteria, and document functional requirements.
- Comfortable coordinating with engineers and understanding delivery constraints in modern web applications.
- Familiarity with cloud‑based delivery environments (preferably AWS) and DevOps/CI‑CD concepts.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including ability to produce clear updates under time pressure.
- Structured, detail‑oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities.