Junior Product Manager

Details

A Junior Product Manager assists Product Managers in working across a single team and may occasionally lead feature development. The role participates in day-to-day team management while partnering with a Product Manager or Engineering Manager to identify business and customer needs and deliver features for products with a well-understood value proposition.

The role contributes to scoping and delivering product features. In an optimization setting, this may involve achieving incremental performance improvements for a feature. In a new product development setting, this may involve shadowing a Product Manager to validate new concepts and support relevant business decisions.

Responsibilities

Product Strategy

• Understand the broader product strategy and explain it to the team and other stakeholders.
• Set the vision for a feature or product over the next year.

Product Delivery

• Identify and prioritize tasks required to achieve short- and mid-term team objectives.
• Partner with Product Managers or Senior Product Managers on longer-term direction setting.

Data Fluency

• Understand the mechanics of important customer or system events in the product.
• Understand and use both quantitative and qualitative data.

Customer Insight

• Use techniques such as interviews and surveys to understand customer behavior.
• Gather customer needs and pain points using techniques such as story mapping and use case design.

Stakeholder Management

• Identify teams and stakeholders affected by projects.
• Gather stakeholder requirements and work with a manager to integrate feedback.

Technical Fluency

• Partner with the Engineering Manager.
• Understand the technical solutions used to deliver the product.
• Advocate for customer and business needs when making engineering trade-off decisions.
• Actively develop technical knowledge relevant to the role.

Community Impact

• Attend craft community events within the Product Track.
• Participate in craft community events outside the Product Track.

Stakeholders

• Product Team
• Product Track
• Product Community
• Internal Stakeholders

Communication And Collaboration

• Steer the team and manage return on investment.
• Provide input on and help steer track strategy within the broader business unit strategy.
• Participate in craft communities outside the individual track.
• Manage stakeholders across the organization at all levels, sharing information through the appropriate medium and at the appropriate time.
• Identify user needs and ensure their interests are represented in releases.
• Work with the team to ensure releases are developed by the deadline and within budget.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree.
• Basic job knowledge.
• 1–3 years of experience in the relevant craft or a transferable discipline, such as engineering, design, commercial work, sales, or marketing.