Technical Product Manager
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KEY EXPECTED ACHIEVEMENTS
More specifically (s)he must be:
- As a Product Manager works on identifying value, defining roadmap, product adoption, cross pollination and feature upgrades.
- Taking lead of teams as the Product Owner.
- Providing vision and direction to the Agile development team and create requirements whenever needed.
- Planning and prioritize product feature backlog and development.
- Assessing value, develop cases, stories and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value.
- Working closely with management to maintain a product backlog according to business value.
- Leading the planning product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities.
- Providing an active role in mitigating roadblocks impacting successful team completion of deployments.
- Researching and analyze the markets, the users, and the roadmap for the product.
- Following competitors and other products related to his portfolio.
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Demonstrate superior product and industry knowledge and helps organization to gain the competitive edge.
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Interacts with customers/stakeholders in VOC requirements-gathering, fine tuning, and obtaining product feedback.
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Works with cross-functional teams to deliver features and major, complex products.
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Possesses a deep understanding of the technology stack and impact on final product.
- Routinely collaborates with UX, Architecture and engineering teams on multiple issues and decisions.
- Conducts customer and stakeholder interviews and elaborates on personas.
- Demonstrates expert persuasion and influencing skills that ensure alignment between customer, product manager and engineering teams.
- Owns the release and sprint backlogs short-term roadmap for MVPs and quarterly releases.
- Owns and manages the backlog; continuously orders and prioritizes to ensure that 1-2 sprints/iterations of backlog are always ready.
- Prioritize continuously in accordance with the understanding and validation of customer problems and needs.
- Demonstrates strategic expert level skills in problem decomposition and ability to navigate through ambiguity.
- Engages frequently (50% of the time) with the development team; facilitates discussions, provides clarification, story acceptance and refinement, testing and validation; contributes to design activities and decisions.
- Translates unstructured or ambiguous work requests into actionable user stories and work units.
- Partners with Development Leadership to ensure healthy development process.
- Develop strong domain understanding such as Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Inventory, Marketing, etc while working with business partners
- Mentors junior team members; Provide technical leadership to TPMs across organization.
- Expert in Agile Methodology: Coaches others.
Product Lifecycle Management
- Manage a backlog of global priorities across multiple stakeholders and departments
- Maintains a release plan and high-level roadmap providing insight to stakeholders of upcoming development
- Plan product launches.
- Help design product solutions.
- Maintain a list of product features.
- Identify product key developments.
- Analyze risks and cost-benefit ratios.
- Manage product user experience (UX).
- Stay up to date in terms of digital product best practices (standards, security, integration, data requirements, etc.).
- Manage product upgrade or deletion.
Case Development
- Write user stories.
- Write use case.
- Document product usage, define the test strategy and validate the product.
Product Deployment
- Work with Business Analyst in product-need matching.
- Help with functional analysis.
- Measure product deployment success.
- Apply product adaptations.
- Transmit product improvements to the Digital Solution Developer and/or Deployer.
- Document product usage workarounds.
- Stay up to date with the latest capabilities and features available on the platform
Product Usage Optimization
- Support product training.
- Troubleshoot product usage problem.
- Help with change management.
Product Benchmarking
- Continuously review and analyze competitive products.
- Compare product performance with competitive solutions.
- Train himself/herself in related product category.
- Build comparative presentations.
What We Do
Michelin, the leading tire company, is dedicated to sustainably improving the mobility of goods and people by manufacturing and marketing tires and services for every type of vehicle, including airplanes, automobiles, bicycles/motorcycles, earthmovers, farm equipment and trucks.
It also offers digital mobility support services and publishes travel guides, hotel and restaurant guides, maps and road atlases.
Headquartered in Clermont-Ferrand, France, Michelin is present in more than 170 countries, has 111,200 employees and operates 67 production plants in 17 different countries.
Michelin has a Technology Center in charge of research and development, with operations in Europe, North America and Asia.
In short, whether you look at our mission, our products or our people, Michelin is a company that truly helps you to move forward....
