Technical project Manager
Lisbon, Portugal
Hybrid (2 -3 days aweek)
Contract 6+ Months
The role - what we expect you to do day to day
Be customer obsessed: develop & provide the organization with a deep appreciation for customer needs, the ecosystem and the key market dynamics
Systems analysis and design: gain in-depth understanding of the product platform and ecosystem around it. Prepare technical artefacts for Engineering covering data flows, sequence diagrams, API and other interface specifications
Backlog management: Define roadmap to support the delivery of objectives. Turn system designs into features and stories that can be actioned by Engineering
Lead story elaboration, including creation of detailed, comprehensive acceptance criteria
Provide technical analysis of application software to ensure that business and functional requirements can be met
Manage strategic alignment across teams: working with stakeholders, ensure backlogs are properly prioritized and refined according to anticipated business value & measurable outcomes
Agile Mindset: advocate for taking an agile approach to product development through all activities from defining an epic to writing acceptance criteria on a user story
Measure outcomes & seek continuous improvements: Evaluate & seek to improve existing practices, metrics, and roles to continually optimize
All About You and What you need to bring:
Several years of product management or new product development and experience shipping high-quality products. Understands and can explain the business context and the associated customer use cases
Experience managing highly technical products, for example a technical platform or some API services
Deep knowledge of software systems design and architecture. Technical savviness essential
Knowledge of key management and cryptography is desirable
Experience in Lean Product management
Comprehensive experience in agile delivery methodologies (scrum, Kanban, etc.), CI/CD and modern DevOps based PDLC and SDLC.
Track record of successful delivery of product features from design, development, deployment and customer integration
Proficient at grooming user stories, features and epics, setting entrance/exit criteria and prioritizing a platform product backlog
Data driven - ability to define measurable and SMART leading and lagging metrics
Thrives in a highly collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts globally- across multiple regions. Recognize discordant views and take part in constructive dialog to resolve them
Ability to engage with numerous stakeholders on existing product capabilities and potential co-development opportunities or dependencies
Ability to operate in an environment with ambiguity. Able to find people and information and to bring stakeholders into the product journey
Improve team processes that accelerate delivery, drive innovation, lower costs, and improve quality
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal