Job Description
Based in City of London, Guardian HR is a rapidly growing, progressive business that offers its employees career development in a fast-paced, collegial working environment.
We offer Recruitment services designed to meet our clients’ individual business needs - from planning stages and all the way through to onboarding and induction. Whilst striving to deliver excellence in our working practice, we support clients in the end to end recruitment process.
We are looking for talented Turkish Speaking Product Manager to work for our award-winning client in the Fintech and Payment Industry.
Key responsibilities
- Lead the full cycle of product management from opportunity assessment and ideation, through validation and delivery, to ongoing product management.
- Using customer insights, data, market information, trends and user problems you will identify business problems and opportunities and form hypotheses.
- Collaborate with your team through discovery to test your hypothesis, using data and insight to drive your decision making and product development.
- Facilitate workshops with business and technical stakeholders for discovery and to gather business needs and input, resolving issues and clearing obstacles.
- Steer prioritisation at the product team level, within the constraints of the agreed objectives and outcomes as well as manage and communicate tradeoffs.
- Break business requirements down into features and user stories with clear acceptance criteria, working with the Software and Solution Architect to establish feasibility and approach.
- Work with the engineering team to refine stories and estimate subtasks, set sprint goals and plan and coordinate releases.
- Groom, sequence and prioritise the backlog in accordance with the product roadmap, technology strategy and resource availability.
- Support the cross team Agile Delivery Manager to continuously refine and improve our agile methodology.
- Collaborate with commercial, sales and product marketing on the go to market strategy for new products or services including pricing, calculations of costs and ROI and CAC.
- Keep key stakeholders up to date, communicating short, medium and longer term roadmap as well as release planning, management and communications.
- Accountable for the tracking and performance of all KPIs for your product, implementing product analytics and ensuring a focus on performance is embedded within your team.
Essential skills
- Experience as a Product Manager in a data rich environment, preferably financial services, fintech or proptech.
- Strong technical product background, working with complex back end services.
- Experience building data centric API’s you understand technical language and terms used for api-first services, automated processes and have database knowledge.
- Highly collaborative approach to product development with cross-functional delivery teams and stakeholders.
- Business acumen; a track record of delivering commercially viable products or services with a clear link to measurable company goals.
- Value-centric approach to work. You are driven by delivering measurable value to customers
- Agile software development and product discovery methodologies. You reflect the importance of continuous, iterative delivery of value, plus the tools and techniques to facilitate this. You define solutions based on a thorough, methodical and data-driven approach.
- Team spirit and highly effective written and verbal communication skills to lead and influence a range of technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Obsession with learning. Whether it’s driving key product KPIs, learning new skills or the nuances of the market you are always reflecting on what can be improved and how to get there
Desirable skills
- Technical background with knowledge of platform and software development.
- Familiarity with cloud services platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure.
- Familiarity with Data platforms and data architecture.
- Familiarity with the Mortgages industry, financial services or Fintech.
- Certified or Professional Scrum Product Manager qualification.
- Experience creating wireframe and UI mockups to communicate yearly concepts.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Schedule:
Ability to commute/relocate:
- London: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: In person