Your role
As a Product Manager, you'll work closely with the client to help shape business objectives and understand user needs, while supporting Design and Engineering in a multitude of ways. Your role will ensure that we’re bringing forward the best possible product to our clients and their customers. This a growing role at Blue Label Labs so there will be an opportunity to shape how we work together and ship incredible products.
Your
responsibilities
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- Work with the project leads to define the product vision based on business goals and customer insights.
- Identify business strategy gaps and assumptions that need validation. Help clients define their product-market fit hypothesis. Collaborate during the Product Strategy phase to better understand users’ needs and help define testing and validation strategies.
- Create, drive, and manage the product roadmap. Have an ongoing evaluation of technical, functional (UX), and performance trade-offs—make scope recommendations to clients. Continuously educate our clients on how we work and get products to the market.
- Track and curate new feature ideas. Work with client partners to define future product opportunities.
- Support a cross-functional working environment and ensure all voices are heard. Challenge the team throughout design and development cycles. Build and maintain productive relationships with client stakeholders and internal project teams.
- Spearhead requirements gathering and documentation for research, design, and engineering. Own the user and business needs to ensure we’re putting the best product into the world.
- Play a key role in mitigating delivery impediments such as backend dependencies, 3rd party milestones, and other business initiatives.
- Collaborate with Engineering Lead and Project Management to assess backend requirements, priorities, and estimates.
Preferred Qualifications:
- You have product management experience, ideally at a digital product agency or consultancy
- Experience shipping multiple concurrent products
- Excellent communicator utilizing all modes of communication (narrative, visual, etc.) to ensure alignment with the product vision. Confident and effective communication with senior stakeholders
- Experience working with cross-functional teams in design, engineering, research, and content
- A nuanced understanding of the differences between working with startups and enterprise clients
- Have an in-depth understanding of what each discipline needs for effective documentation
- Comfortable defining new processes and assessing where to provide the most value on a project-by-project basis
- Comfortable scoping new initiatives, taking calculated risks and presenting to executives
- Able to empathetically and effectively engage with users, translating their emotions into real solutions
