6+ years of experience in product ownership or software engineering., Expertise in product management and backlog management., Proficient in user story writing and Agile methodologies, particularly Scrum., Fluent in English with strong communication skills..
Key responsabilities:
Lead the product development process from ideation to launch, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
Facilitate workshops and sessions to gather requirements and clarify acceptance criteria.
Manage relationships with stakeholders and communicate product changes effectively.
Demonstrate product features regularly and support user acceptance testing during releases.
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We are a young and growing company, with operations in Medellin and Bogota, focused on the generation of technological solutions in synergy with our customers and our team so that these solutions add value within their organizations and their business processes.
At Softgic, we work with the coolest, with those who build, with those who love what they do, with those who have 100 in attitude, because that's our #Cooltura. Join our purpose of making life easier with technology and be part of our team as a Senior Product Manager.
Compensation:
USD 18 - 22/hour.
Location:
Remote (for Colombia, Estados Unidos, and Argentina residents)
Mission of Softgic:
In Softgic S.A.S. we work for the digital and cognitive transformation of our clients, aware that quality is an essential factor for us, we incorporate the following principles into our policy:
Deliver quality products and services.
Achieve the satisfaction of our internal and external clients.
Encourage in our team the importance of training to grow professionally and personally through development plans.
Comply with the applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
Promote continuous improvement of the quality management system.
What makes you a strong candidate:
You have 6+ years of experience in roduct pownership.
You are expert in product management.
You are proficient in backlog management, user story writing, and Scrum.
English - Conversational.
Responsibilities and more:
Client Background:
Our strategic client is a rapidly growing company that efficiently purchases and bundles construction materials to build farming facilities faster and with higher quality than their competitors. However, they are beginning a journey to modernize and transform their technology, which is a combination of built applications as well as platforms they subscribe to and integrate with. We are fortunate to have been selected as their partner in transforming the first application in this journey.
The initial project we are engaged in is a web application that will enable their sales staff to design and create proposals in the field. This will be an integration with a visual builder that will provide requirements that will be ingested by the web application which in turn create a quote based on the design requirements and internal business rules. This application will be the first win in a series of initiatives, and an excellent opportunity to both boost their revenue while establishing their next generation tech stack and architectural patterns.
This engagement will begin with a 2-sprint (4 week) discovery at the client’s offices located in the United States, with the possibility of follow-up onsite meetings for important milestones.
Responsabilities:
Thrive in Ambiguity: PMs carve the path and change it early and often as they collect more signals while separating the noise.
Strong Leadership: PMs define the company’s point of view for their product, validating the strategy and roadmap. They anticipate, identify & solve potential problems while leading the decisions/consensus process.
Strong Execution: This entails leading your team with fast-paced execution, using user research and business objectives to inform decisions, learning from new information and adjusting accordingly, communicating and managing relationships with stakeholders – both internal (your direct team) and external (senior leaders across the company, for example).
Principal Accountability | Be the Product Expert
Demonstrates complete expertise in the product.
Understand and document functional dependencies in the systems.
Aid with user acceptance testing during final releases.
Regularly demonstrate product changes to internal and external users/stakeholders.
Facilitate sprint reviews on all features and functionality.
Demo the product often, outside of the sprint review.
Principal Accountability | Build the Roadmap
Communicates internally and externally, develops and maintains Product Roadmap(s) in cooperation with PMs and other POs.
Create backlog items in collaboration Stakeholders on the client-side, who is responsible for the Epic/Feature-level backlog.
Define and foster collaboration on clarifying requirements and acceptance criteria together with PM and Development Team, so that the right size stories are created.
Groom the backlog through prioritization and story minimization to queue upcoming sprints.
Facilitate workshops (as needed) to build alignment on product ideas.
Principal Accountability | Illustrate the “Who”, “What” and “Why”
Identify, document, and communicate user-based personas that interact with the product.
Facilitate ideation, discovery, and requirements sessions with stakeholders, influencers, and users.
Understand and meticulously document value statements for each story.
Work with technical stakeholders (developers, architects) to identify story interdependence.
Facilitate the definition of acceptance criteria with the team.
Assure everyone understands stories “in the same way”.
Leverage visualization to bring simplicity and clarity to stories.
Write explicit behavior for complex functional algorithms.
Principal Accountability | Lead the Product
Ability to transform the ideas of the client into tasks for the team, taking into account the complexity of the project and the relationship of its parts.
Willingness and desire to improve current processes.
Work with stakeholders to have expectations from the Client team correctly set, help the to form goals aligned to the expectations being set, help the team continuously deliver and adapt to changing environment.
Drive the product and business-planning process across cross-functional team.
Provide support to the PO team when ambiguity arises on an inter-feature level.
Collaborate with management to identify and plan product releases with Deliver.
Manager by reviewing milestones with stakeholders.
Principal Accountability | Be the Culture
Acts as a Servant Leader –garner respect from your team and be willing to get your hands dirty.
Communicative and social –talk with the teams frankly about challenges/successes.
Facilitative – be prepared to lead and demonstrate value-add principles to the team.
Assertive – ensure agile principles are adhered to and be the voice of reason and authority.
Enthusiastic – be excited about team goals.
Continual Improvement – proactively look for ways to work more efficiently.
Conflict Resolution - facilitate discussion and alternatives when conflict arises.
An attitude of transparency – disclose (to stakeholders) the stage of development to build trust.
Requirements
6+ years of experience as a Product Owner for application SaaS and/or mobile software, or software engineering experience and willingness to learn.
Experience leading cross-functional teams from ideation to launch.
Experience working in an Agile environment, Scrum preferred.
Experience with backlog management.
Experience with designing Features and User Stories.
Fluent English and communication skills.
Benefits
We're certified as a Great Place to Work.
Opportunities for advancement and growth.
Paid time off.
Formal education and certifications support.
Benefits with partner companies.
Referral program.
Flexible working hours.
Salary: USD 18 - 22/hour
Required profile
Experience
Spoken language(s):
English
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