Senior Product Manager (Contract)

Metalab is a company that ships beautiful, successful products rooted in true business and user needs. As a Senior Product Manager, you will ensure the delivery of impactful products by defining core product strategies and collaborating with project teams and clients.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the product strategy definition and creation and maintenance of product roadmaps by incorporating stakeholder inputs, user needs, market research, project timelines, and business objectives
• Contribute to the creation of the product architecture and definition, collaborating with engineering and design teams to ensure technical feasibility and alignment with business goals and user needs
• Manage the delivery process, including feature prioritization, release planning, and coordination with engineering and operations teams to ensure timely and successful product launches
• Lead ongoing requirements gathering, feature definition, and documentation for research, design, and engineering
• Prioritize design and development activities to keep the team and client laser-focused on solving the right problem at the right time
• Generate various product artifacts, such as backlogs, user stories, sprint plans, briefs, requirements documentation, dependency diagrams, and logic flows, to support the design and engineering teams and keep them unblocked
• Collaborate with engineering leads and project management to define technical implementation methods, assess backend requirements, generate technical estimates, and mitigate delivery impediments

Requirements:

• Experience in shipping consumer and/or B2B products, with a demonstrable portfolio of products that are currently in the market
• Excellent understanding of and experience in the software development process, including gathering requirements and defining specifications, prioritization, driving the QA process, and compiling and disseminating product documentation
• Experience supporting the shaping of a product, including the product strategy, definition, and roadmap creation
• Have an understanding of how products are brought to market and operationalized
• Experience in and appreciation for user-driven product design and data-driven product refinement
• Ability to quickly understand, simplify, internalize, and communicate complex or technical concepts
• Ability to work within software development tools such as Jira, Confluence, Notion, ProductBoard and Smartsheet
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills in a remote environment