Position: Senior Product Manager for Ciklum Digital
Company: Ciklum
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

Client is a fintech scale-up that is breaking new ground within the business payments sector – which moves $130trn annually. And businesses are no longer tolerating the slow, inefficient, and costly infrastructure provided by legacy institutions. Client develops cutting-edge API-first services to enable modern business to eliminate historic hidden inefficiencies and build fast-to-market products on top of their award-winning payments platform.

**Responsibilities:**
- Lead the product creation and continuous improvement through the whole PDLC;
- Act without supervision effectively handling all the product-related sub-streams insight the program;
- Identify and analyze market opportunities, target audience needs and defining product vision and strategy;
- Manage expectations of product users and program stakeholders;
- Collaborate proactively with business stakeholders, project managers, and teams to reach a common understanding of the solution to address the customer needs;
- Work closely with the Business Development team on go-to-market strategy and product roadmap;
- Develop high-level requirements and work with Design, Technical and QA teams on their details;
- Define the prioritization approach and correspondingly address the customers feedbacks

**Requirements:**
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent experience building/shipping technical products;
- 5+ years of Product Management experience with direct product ownership;
- IT industry experience, a clear understanding of agile SDLC methods and frameworks scrum, Kanban scaled frameworks as SAFe or Spotify will be a plus;
- Experience with payments;
- Experience building products with a demonstrated ability to drive product planning, development launch;
- A clear understanding of principles and specifics of software development methodologies;
- Extensive knowledge of business analysis activities and techniques;
- Awareness of the latest IT industry and digitalization trends;
- Knowledge of requirements management tools (at least JIRA & Confluence);
- Strong English verbal and written communication skills. Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills;
- Ability to combine creativity, innovation, and analytics without losing sight of the user;
- Strong analytical skills to make a critical assessment of the information from numerous sources;
- Setting clear goals and priorities. Time-management, ability to handle multi-tasking activities and prioritization;
- Ability to manage and lead across highly cross-functional teams;
- Strong strategic aptitude; proven ability to define a winning business strategy and product roadmap and gain buy-in from stakeholders at all levels

**Desirable:**
- Master's degree in Business Administration (MBA);
- Practical product manager experience in retail and telecommunications;
- Understanding of UI / UX principals;
- Experience in collaborating with designers and development teams and the aptitude to motivate and or inter-functional teams with your positive attitude;
- Knowledge of prototyping tools;
- Experience in conducting A / B tests

**Personal skills:**
- High flexibility. Ability to modify approach as per changing stakeholders, conditions, circumstances and feedback. Quick learning;
- Self-confidence. Ability to accept criticism for continuous improvement

**What's in it for you:**
- Career growth opportunities;
- Realization of your innovative ideas in building new Ciklum Solutions and Services;
- Friendly collaborative teams and enjoyable working environment;
- Professional skills development and training programs;
- Variety of knowledge sharing, training and self-development opportunities;
- State of the art, cool, centrally located offices with warm atmosphere which creates really good working conditions