Product Manager Job Description

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Product Manager Introduction:

[Company Name] is looking for a creative Product Manager to lead our long-term product vision and strategy. The ideal candidate will have a great eye for detail and understanding of user experience. They’ll use their understanding of customer experience to help us build products people can’t live without. We’re looking for someone who loves talking with customers and analyzing user data. Someone who can make the most of this data and use it to make smart decisions for product direction. The ideal candidate must also be comfortable working across various teams on production and strategy. Sound like you?

 

Product Manager Responsibilties:

• Work across teams to help us build remarkable product
• Maintain consistent communication with sales and marketing to help inform market strategy and increase growth
• Conduct and analyze user reviews, surveys, and interviews
• Plan our product roadmap and manage progress
• Lead cross-team product meetings
• Work alongside design team on product mockups and wireframes
• Organize and lead design sprints and user testing
• Track production using product management tool
• Announce new feature launches or significant updates
• Provide product feature and update reports
• Review product demos and give insights to sales team
• Follow industry trends to develop better product strategies
• Work with sales team to overcome feature set pushbacks
• Talk to customers! Talk to customers! Talk to customers! 

Product Manager Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Marketing, or Business
• 1 to 3 years experience is a similar role
• 1+ years experience managing teams
• Background knowledge of our industry would be considered a strong asset
• Experience using project management tools such as Trello, JIRA, or Asana
• Must be comfortable using wireframing tools such as UXPin or Balsamiq
• Prior use of design and interface tools (ex: Invision) as well as analytics tools also necessary
• Experience with survey creation and delivery
• Experience participating in or leading design prints considered a strong asset
  
  

Product Manager Core Skills:

• Analytical thinking
• Interpersonal communication
• Problem-solving
• Teamwork
• Writing reports
• User surveys
• Product roadmap
• Delegation
• Prioritization
• Interviews
• Presentation skills
• Leadership
• User experience
• Costing
• Forecasting
• Decision-making
• Creativity
• Metrics
  
  

Alongside Pro Tip:

The qualifications for your Product Manager posting should depend on the industry and intended responsibilities for the role. They’ll need a certain level of background knowledge to help inform vision and strategy that fits your product(s). For example, if you’re hiring someone to work on a cyber-security product, you should ask for additional experience and/or education that is relevant to that industry.