Director Of Product Management

 

Description:

Qualifications & Experience:

• Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or any other relevant field

• Master’s in Business Administration is desirable

• Minimum 10 years of experience in a similar environment with at least 5 years of progressive leadership responsibility in an organization of similar scope and size

 

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Product Leadership

• Define and drive the product vision and create a product roadmap, aligned with the organization’s strategic goals.

• Set clear objectives, micro-goals, and actionable steps to achieve each goal.

• Partner with senior leadership to translate business strategies into actionable product initiatives.

• Engage with clients and stakeholders to gather insights and refine product offerings.

 

Product Lifecycle Management

• Interface with clients to understand their requirements, processes, and key success factors.

• Maintain updated requirements traceability matrices and assess user stories for completeness.

• Participate in agile processes, including scrum meetings and product sprints, ensuring all objectives are met.

• Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle from ideation to launch and postlaunch evaluation.

• Ensure that products are consistently meeting customer expectations and business objectives.

• Manage product backlog priorities, resolving conflicts, and ensuring alignment with strategic goals across teams.

• Develop, implement, and monitor production timelines to ensure timely delivery of products

 

 

Collaboration Management

• Gain a deep understanding of client’s businesses and align internal and external stakeholders to meet their requirements.

• Plan and execute client service requests, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to quality standards.

• Serve as the primary liaison for client communication, conflict resolution, and compliance.

• Collaborate closely with development teams to ensure high-quality delivery that aligns with customer expectations.

• Participate in review meetings to assess current performance, gather feedback and identify areas for improvement.

 

Market Research & Competitive Analysis

• Conduct market research and competitive analysis to identify trends, emerging technologies, and business opportunities.

• Explore ways to enhance the product and guide new initiatives from concept to implementation.

• Analyse customer feedback, market demands, and competitor offerings to identify new product opportunities and improvements.

 

Leadership & Team Management

• Manage the team, maximising job satisfaction, monitoring performance and addressing learning and development requirements.

• Sets individual objectives, recruit qualified staff, provide formal and informal feedback / appraisal to maximise team performance.

• Foster a collaborative, innovative, and results-driven culture within the team.

 

Policies, Systems, Processes and Procedures

• Oversee and ensure appropriate governance and risk management processes are effectively operated throughout the organization

• Understand and embrace the corporate information security framework and perform his / her duties according to the policy, procedures, standards, and guidelines and ensure team members follow the standards and procedures

 

MIS and Reports

• Prepares timely and accurate MIS statements and reports like resource utilization, Progress Reports

 

Quality Management and Continuous Improvement

• Ensures compliance to all relevant quality management procedures and controls to guarantee compliance and delivery of high-quality products/service

• Stimulates and contributes to the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement of systems, processes and practices taking into account best practices, improvement of business processes, cost reduction and productivity improvement