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Technical Product Manager - Amsterdam

*URGENT - ROLE INTERVIEWING NOW!*

This is a Amsterdam based role with an excellent immediate start within a Global Technology Client that is working on their largest digital and technological transformation program.

A Product Manager drives the design, development, and implementation of products based on user needs and the company's product strategy and vision. A Product Manager is deeply committed to solving user (eg customer or partner) pain points and identifying opportunities to improve their experience. A Product Manager primarily works within their team and other teams within the same department. A Product Manager typically leads a single development team and deals with a relatively narrow scope and limited set of cross-functional stakeholders. Products/features owned by a Product Manager achieve meaningful impact within the context of their department.

Key Responsibilities:

• Owns and sets the vision for their product/feature, informed by data, user research and overarching vision of their product area
• Lays out a ~1y strategy to achieve the vision, as part of their Department's strategy
• Able to align all their key stakeholders inc. their team on this strategy
• Owns and defines objectives at Team-level
• Typically owns or collaborates with a Product Marketing Manager to create a go-to-market plan for their product
• Product Delivery Prioritises short- and mid-term
• Works with the team to establish tactical delivery methodology (eg scrum, Kanban, hours, points etc.) and execute plans
• Data Fluency
• Identifies and explains the choice of the primary metric, supporting metric and counter metrics

Key skills and Requirements:

• Understands how to analyse data and present findings to stakeholders and make product decisions with the results
• Is familiar with techniques to better understand customer behaviour, such as interviews and surveys
• Knows how to gather customer needs and pain points and has experimented with techniques such as story mapping or use case design
• Understands the difference between different research methods and is familiar with the appropriate method for the problems they are solving for
• Is familiar with research practises and principles and can use them in partnership with researchers to distil feedback into actionable hypotheses
• Able to illustrate overall customer behaviour by blending multiple sources of product insights (such as surveys, field research, analytics, operations feedback etc)
• Is familiar with user experience design practises and principles and can use them in partnership with designers to visualise a product problem to help guide their team's direction
• Gathers stakeholders key requirements and works with their manager to integrate the feedback
• Manages stakeholder expectations with timely, concise and clear progress updates, adapted to stakeholder needs and via different mediums (verbal, written, presentation)
• Manages expectations up to Group Product Manager level and occasionally Director level Tech Fluency Partners with Engineering Manager
• Understands which technical solutions are used to deliver the product
• Advocates for the customer and business in engineering trade-off decisions
• Actively learns the technical side of their work
• Understands what the most critical elements of the technical solution are and can explain and justify the chosen technical solutions

Please send your CV & motivation for immediate consideration to Toni - we are shortlisting for interviews now!

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