Senior IT Product Strategy Manager

Job Overview:

This is a leadership role where you will define and refine technology product vision, roadmap and strategy by collaborating with stakeholders to ensure alignment between business objectives and technical execution.

• Translate product vision into actionable tasks in the backlog and prioritize them by working closely with product, engineering, UX/UI and business teams.
• Work with business teams and customers to gather, analyze and document technical requirements which can be translated into technical specifications for development teams.
• Understand the product outcome and benefits to customers, to the market, to the business and also agile development processes and organization way of working.
• Collaborate with scrum master and development team (UI/UX team, architecture, engineering, business analyst) including other relevant inputs that may affect the scope of the product.
• Own and facilitate features and user story refinement and planning sessions.
• Manage the team product backlog and prioritization of user stories, ensuring the product backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all.
• Ensure the team is focused on developing the deliverables that provide the optimum value for the user and the business.
• Approve product increments on sprint reviews, and acceptance of final iteration plan.
• Accountable for the definition of done as well as the acceptance.
• Lead the product development team(s) and guide implementation.
• Responsible for the team vision, product roadmap and release plan, in close collaboration with other relevant teams and the Agile Release Train.
• Collaborate with Engineering Teams to ensure that technical requirements are met and participate in sprint ceremonies, sprint planning, daily standups and retrospectives.
• Serve as a liaison between the business stakeholders and engineering team, communicating progress, risks and dependencies clearly and regularly.
• Ensure products meet the required technical standards and business requirements through rigorous testing and validation processes.
• Support teams by providing acceptable success criteria.
• Collaborate with UX/UI teams to ensure that pricing solution and experiences optimized keeping the customer and store team members in mind.
• Define product release schedules in co-ordination with stakeholders and development teams, ensuring that features are delivered in timely manner.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by collaborating closely with stakeholders and development teams to improve processes, tools and workflows.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• 3+ years experience as a Product owner, Technical Product Owner or Technical Business Analyst.
• Solid understanding of software development processes, cloud platforms and systems architecture. Familiarity with microservices and event-driven architectures is a bonus.
• Strong familiarity with Agile methodologies Scrum, kanban and development tools Jira, Confluence, etc.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Ability to translate complex technical concepts into business language to effectively communicate with non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills to help review, analyze, prioritize competing items, challenges and dependencies.
• Solid collaboration skills with experience in relation building, conflict resolution, negotiation and consensus building skills. Experience with stakeholder and vendor management.
• Experience in coaching and mentoring highly performant engineering teams.
• Working knowledge of the retail industry and pricing domain is a bonus.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer information systems, engineering or related field.