Product Manager / Owner

A successful company based in Maidenhead is seeking a Product Manager to join their highly entrepreneurial and experienced team. As a Product Manager you'll be responsible for the creation and evolution of exciting products which meet the needs of their customers and the business.

Responsibilities

• Support Product Management by creating epics and user stories to enable applicable development for at least 2 sprints of prioritized user stories

• Work closely with the Scrum team to help clarify stories as required

• Compile test results to provide data for use in solving problems

• Perform engineering level tests to find defects; troubleshoot and debug development and production issues, collaborating with QA Engineers to develop optimal product test plans

• Work with Product Owner to clarify and estimate feature work

• Work with QA Engineers to develop optimal product test plans and resolve new feature issues as QA finds bugs during release stabilization

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Bachelors’ degree in business, computer science or equivalent field plus c 2 years’ experience working as a business analyst, product manager, product owner or similar role OR equivalent experience

• Highly motivated self-starter with a desire to help others and take action

• Requires strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into non-technical terms

• Ability to independently work as a contributing member in a high-paced and focused team

• Ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks with competing deadlines

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to work under pressure

• Ability to socialize ideas and influence decisions without direct authority

• Collaborative in nature with a strong desire to dig in and learn independently and as well as through asking questions

• Considers ‘best-practice’ standards, as well as departmental policies and procedures

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Excellent organizational, time management and multi-tasking skills

• Understanding of product and sprint backlog tracking, burn-down metrics, velocity, and work breakdowns

• Understands the fundamentals of software development processes and procedures

If this sounds of interest, please apply today.