RESPONSIBILITIES

• Build and champion product strategies and vision throughout client engagements, as well as brief and inspire internal team members to deliver on that vision.
• Retrieve and analyze feedback from customers, stakeholders, other teams, and various research methods, workshop facilitation methodologies to shape requirements, features and end products.
• Take ownership over creating product plans and roadmaps with the buy-in of executive stakeholders.
• Prepare and review product requirements documents (PRD) - be meticulous in ensuring requirements of all types (client, business, user experience, design, technical, non-functional) are understood, documented, kept up-to-date, conflicts resolved, and finally communicated in a timely fashion to team members and client stakeholders.
• Organize product releases and priorities properly, ensuring compliance with business value expectations.
• Prepare recommendations to track product use and impact on end users - define measurement plans for the digital products that we design and build. Build your skills using a repertoire of analytics tools.
• Ensure requirements have been delivered to specifications, defects have been managed through to resolution, and assess readiness for launch
• Regularly use product management frameworks to generate alignment across discipline towards a course of action
• Continuously prepare recommendations to expand product base and vision - based on data and research-driven insight.
• Add value to the team - you are not just an order-taker. You understand what it means to drive ROI through business and customer value, you understand the constraints from all directions, and you use your consultative skills to make recommendations to move vision forward.
• Support, elevate, and champion the practice of product management at Apply Digital

REQUIREMENTS

• You are perceptive, a creative leader, and a problem solver.
• You are professional, confident, and able to understand which ideas will and which won’t work.
• You have done it before, with a minimum of 5 years of experience in a Product Management role.
• You have proven yourself in a consultation role, through Agency, Consultancy, or other Professional Services Firm.
• You have mastered product ownership and product discovery.
• You showcase exceptional client service skills and excel in communication when working with leadership.
• You are comfortable navigating client situations and recommending paths to resolving uncertainty and can work effectively across disciplines in a client facing capacity.
• You can demonstrate the ability to construct product strategy and points of view to inform product and prioritization decisions.
• You have the ability to deconstruct epics into individual users stories and can lead a product squad to navigate uncertainty.
• You have a portfolio of digital products that you have shipped, managed and operated, and are proud to share how it delivered value to end users.
• It’s easy for you to break down complex problems into logical, digestible steps.
• Ambiguity doesn’t scare you, and you thrive on turning ambiguity and conflicting information into clarity in a fast-changing environment.
• You’re good at techie speak and non-techie speak. You’ve collaborated in multidisciplinary teams, are able to convey technical concepts to non-technical people as well as turn business, UX, design requirements into technical specifications.

LIFE AT APPLY DIGITAL

• Flexibility - work where you work best
• Competitive benefits plan
• Generous paid time off - take the time you need to be balanced and energized
• A growing company means many opportunities for advancement - we like to promote from within!
• Regular team and company events (karaoke, escape rooms, axe throwing and more!)
• Training budgets, Days of Learning, company-wide training, Apply Library and our Hackathon for Good mean you have many different ways to learn and stretch yourself