Digital / Technical Product Manager
Master of Malt
- England
- Permanent
- Full-time
- You’ll be wearing many different hats, acting as hybrid Product Owner / Business Analyst across two or more development teams.
- You’re a great people person and communicator; developing strong relationships by building trust, rapport and effective working relationships with key sponsors, stakeholders and business owners.
- You can understand context;
- …when you collaborate with business stakeholders to help develop, document, maintain and evangelise our product vision and strategy.
- … when you work with other Product team members to influence the Product Vision and Product Roadmap
- You can think ahead of everyone else, and facilitate what needs to happen ;
- …you’ll plan, refine and prioritise the backlog for the relevant development domains to ensure alignment with business and technology strategies, ensuring we derive the best possible business value or ROI.
- …you’ll assume a leading role in planning our technology release roadmap and outwardly communicate the expectation for delivery of new functionality.
- You will dive deep to understand the problem space and take a lead in requirements gathering, stakeholder interviews and discovery working closely with internal customers, UX design and developers to shepherd requirements through the design phase. Lead in the preparation of functional specifications, use case and workflow diagrams.
- Support the development and QA teams by providing clarifications to requirements and design during active sprints.
- Create well-written stories as an output of the scoping process, with clear and concise requirements and acceptance criteria.
- Participate in stand-ups, sprint demos, reviews and retros.
- Contribute an active role in removing the impediments and obstacles that hamper the progress of our development squads.
- Follow our competitors, our partners and the industry as a whole for emerging trends in the D2C drinks e-commerce space.
- You are exceptionally curious and creative - solving hard problems is what you live for.
- You have a positive can-do attitude, you learn fast and relish a challenge. You question things and need to understand them on a deep level. You get out of bed each morning excited to get cracking and make things better.
- You love efficiency and hate waste in all its forms - you relentlessly automate and eliminate repetitive tasks. You are extremely proud of how little manual repetitive work your department does. You build a culture of continuous improvement.
- You question everything and are obsessive about deeply understanding everything around you.
- You have the technical skills to understand each team member’s contributions and lead by example in the pursuit of the best possible results.
- You are smart and a fast learner, with a sharp, inquiring mind and the ability to keep up with an extremely fast-paced business environment and a complete lack of tolerance with it comes to corporate rubbish.
- You dream to deliver “consumer delight”, with our vision at the very heart of your ideas.
- You need to be close enough to the South East of England to get to the office often enough to meet with team members and stakeholders. We’re talking a minimum of once a month.
- Knowledge and experience from a similar business and industry is essential. To make a meaningful contribution in this role you will need to have a decent amount of exposure to a similar environment.
- You’ll have a background in software development. You’re not going to be a coder but you will need to understand the challenges we face and how to scope our product increments to get the best value.
- We don’t care whether you have a degree from MIT or from Scunthorpe Poly. In fact, we don’t even care if you’ve not got one at all. We care whether or not you are a capable, proactive human being who loves being part of a rapid, agile team.
- You’ll be a critical thinker. You won’t fall for dogma, you’ll believe that conventional thinking, status quo and top-down leadership are all there to be challenged. It doesn’t matter if it’s your boss, your boss’s boss or the CEO, if someone is making a bad decision, you’ll call it out.
- You will be a pragmatic, organised person with a high say-to-do ratio and able to cope with streamlining demands into what is important.
- You’ll have experience working with Agile methodologies. Particularly SCRUM and that kind-of-SCRUM that a lot of us end up doing.
- You will value people, our Atomistas are our biggest asset. Our ability to collaborate across the business in a positive way is the key to making us (and you) a success.
- You have excellent communication skills with the ability to engage, influence, and inspire partners and stakeholders to drive collaboration and alignment