Brandless is in search of a seasoned Software Product & User Experience Manager. As such, you will act as a conduit between users and our engineering team. You'll work with users to understand their needs and desires, and you'll have the technical skills to work with engineers to deliver those requirements. The output of your work is a commercial product that users love and value. Having experience in the field of social platform development, and social selling will be a huge bonus.
As a PM you'll explore and develop product ideas, whether interviewing customers, looking at competitors, or investigating open source technologies. There are many great ideas, but only some can be developed, so you'll collaborate with designers, engineering, and leadership to prioritize the best for product development.
The heart of a PM's job is to translate user requirements into executable work items that the development team can implement in the product. You will have the detailed technical knowledge necessary so you can explain feature requirements to developers and work with them to deliver these improvements for users. This role is suitable for someone who enjoys working with users, technology, and delivering software products that users love. You'll need to be comfortable in a fast paced environment, able to work at both a user and technical level, and have a strong focus on outcomes.
Responsibilities
● Work closely with stakeholders (such as customers, business development and the open source community) to understand needs and priorities
● Translate market and stakeholder needs into product requirements and definitions
● Collaborate with Design and Eng on feature ideas and prototypes to bring potential solutions
● Collaborate with stakeholders to guide feature development and prioritization
● Translate user requirements into executable feature work-items with engineering
● Be the "voice of the customer" during specification and development stages development
● Act as a product champion externally and internally in support of sales channels
● Track and report key metrics to drive future product developments Skills and Experience
● End-to-End software product development and management skills
● Structured approach with experience in an agile work methodology
● History of collaborating with development teams and achieving outcomes
● Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
● 3-7 years product management experience
● Enthusiastic about new technology and its transformational abilities
● Ability to be productive in a globally distributed team through self-discipline and self-motivation