Senior Product Manager

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Organizational

• Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends
• Understand and support inter-team dependencies, and escalate issues as needed

Managerial

• Track progress towards the release of a product
• Manage cross-functional coordination to test and validate new ideas, features and capabilities through all release phases including requirements, design, specifications, development timelines, and deployment
• Ensure the squads are fully up to date with latest context and specific tasks
• Ensures that Project deliverables are of the desired quality and have appropriate endorsements
• Prioritize and lead the execution of innovative product development together with Design and Engineering while assessing business value and aligning with strategy.

Functional

• Understand key business objectives and strategy of the product.
• Provide target vision on final output and features (product backlog) and share expertise on product specifications, business requirements and customer needs
• Conduct data analysis and interpret data to answer key business questions.
• Integrate user and usability research, market analysis and customer feedback into the product development roadmap.
• Interface cross-functionally with marketing and customer success to align new and future product releases.
• Define and understand metrics to measure the success of new product launches.
• Lead squad events (e.g. daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint review)
• Actively manage the JIRA backlog defining user stories and acceptance criteria and refining with the team
• Work with developers and subject-matter experts to understand the work effort for a requirement.
• Set and communicate release date and scope with the squad.
• Create mockups and prototypes to assist with the development.
• Lead and coordinate troubleshooting of incidents during product testing prior to release .

• Bachelor s in Engineering, Business administration or related qualification
• Experience in related field: Minimum 5 years of experience and above
• Proven experience in a product strategy or requirements intake role (e.g. business analyst)
• Experience in agile development with technology teams
• Prior exposure to the Insurance is a plus
• Deep understanding and experience with Agile methodologies and systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English and Arabic