Product Management Lead

Product Management Lead

Project Role : Product Management Lead
Project Role Description : Drive and develop product vision, strategy and roadmap. Works with key stakeholders to understand requirements, build partnerships and provide technology solutions. Work with engineering teams to deliver the product with quick time-to-market.
Must have skills : Product Development Management
Good to have skills : NA
Minimum 15 year(s) of experience is required
Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education

Summary:
As a Product Management Lead, you will drive and develop the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. Your typical day will involve collaborating with key stakeholders to understand their requirements, building partnerships, and providing innovative technology solutions. You will also work closely with engineering teams to ensure the timely delivery of products to the market, balancing strategic planning with hands-on execution to meet business objectives and customer needs.

Roles & Responsibilities:
Are responsible for the implementation strategy, quality, sustainability, and maintainability.
Maintain the product backlog, managing requirements and tasks that need to be done by the team.
Prioritize the work according to the OKRs of the product to ensure the product vision is met.
Develop a release plan and product roadmap and ensure that everyone involved has a common understanding of the product development.
Are responsible for providing the best return on investment of their product and negotiating financial targets and expected key results for the product.
Are responsible for all economic and financial decision-making during the development of a release and/or version of the product.
Are able and empowered to adjust time, scope, and quality according to the business needs or for needed technical developments within the approved budget. Cost and benefit should be a key factor to determine the order of the work.
Motivate the team and seek feedback. They coordinate all questions of the team and listen to suggestions about adding, deleting, changing, or improving the product. They rep-resent the customer, user, and strategic stakeholders of the product to the team.
Have disciplinary responsibility for the Product Team IT members.
Define the objectives and key results needed to realize the vision of the product and to pay for the objectives of the product group.
Define suitable business KPIs to measure the benefit/value of the product. Together with the Product Lead BU they track and report financial KPIs to the product group level.
Keep an eye on all aspects of the product, the Minimum Viable Product (MVP), positive ROI results, and the time to market.
Have to find the right balance between necessary technical tasks (e.g., Security, Refactoring or Documentation) and feature developments.

Professional & Technical Skills:
Highly motivated and fully engaged in the development of the product.
Understanding the target and customer needs. Strong business knowledge to lead the team and product development while coordinating with all the stakeholders.
Able to develop good relationships with internal customers and third-party suppliers.
Excellent communicator who can work collaboratively across many different roles and functions. They should be able to communicate the product vision, align people and stakeholders, focus their efforts, and motivate the team. Their high emotional intelligence helps them collaborate and successfully shape product development.
Able to create products that delight customers. While it is important to listen to the stakeholders and change the backlog accordingly, it is also important to listen to the customer and discover their needs.
Looking ahead about additional features and functionality that would be helpful. They always look at the broader picture
Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with a high level of written and spoken English.

Additional Information:
- The candidate should have minimum 15 years of experience in Product Development Management.
- This position is based at our Chennai office.
- A 15 years full time education is required.