Position: Product Manager
Company: Forte Group
Category: Product Manager
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

Forte Group is looking for a Product manager to join our dynamic team.

**What we offer:**

Opportunity to be an integral part of a growing product management practice that is refining agile excellence at scale.  We work with some of the leading companies in America (primarily) and worldwide.  This position requires someone who can hit the ground running, with 10+ years of application software development experience. We will provide on-the-job training and a defined career path with significant opportunities for growth.  You will be working with a group of exceptional product owners and product managers with defined opportunities for career growth.  

**Who you are:**

You are a well-organized, result-driven software professional with an inquisitive mind who is motivated to deliver demonstrable value to our customers by building software products that address important problems. You are flexible, thrive in a fast-paced environment, are well-versed in application software development, and have significant experience in Agile Product Management. As a Sr. Product Owner, you will be leading product delivery for key clients and one or more agile teams. 

**What you will be doing day-to-day:**

● Understand Client’s business goals and success metrics, rapidly become an SME in relevant market space (including but not limited to competitive analysis), and ability to lead Discovery, Planning, and Delivery for 1-2 Scrum Teams from a Product perspective
● Communicate and frame customer problems clearly for the team, including writing user stories, story maps, building flowcharts, and use cases
● Manage product backlogs - you will create and manage the backlog items
● Perform user acceptance testing to ensure the quality of delivered solutions
● Manage client expectations via organized product planning frameworks (roadmap, story maps, etc.) and regular status updates 
● Assisting in consultative sales deals 
● Helping to improve Forte’s Product Management practice by improving and building out our processes and capabilities

**What kind of person you are:**

● Curious and always asking the question, “Why are we doing this?”
● Hands-on.  You are quick to try new apps and tools, to figure out how they work, what you like - and what you’d change to improve it
● Excellent communicator; able to interpret, dissect and relay key information
● Ability to solve problems and work effectively under pressure
● Have a strong interest in technology trends and keeps up-to-date with the latest developments

**What skills and experience do we need you to have:**

● **8+ years of total experience as a Product Manager/ Product
Owner** for commercial  SaaS and/or mobile software, or software engineering experience (particularly QA engineering) - **must have at least 4 years of Product experience**
● Experience leading cross-functional teams from ideation to launch
● Experience working in an Agile environment, Scrum preferred
● Experience writing user stories, creating and owning Roadmaps, Basic UX Research to define and prioritize the need
● Good English and communication skills

**Preferred:**

● Experience with Lean methodologies and iterative, metric-driven decision making
● Experience leading high-growth product team… Ideally, from a single team to multiple teams
● Scrum Product Owner certification
● Experience managing product backlog for multiple Scrum teams
● Experience with troubleshooting Production issues and coming up with quick solutions and workarounds

**We offer:**

● Experience working with colleagues locally and abroad
● Opportunities for self-realization working on challenging projects using new technologies and tools
● Friendly team and enjoyable working environment
● Social and corporate events
● Possibility for career development
● Participation in professional trainings, meetups
● Medical & family care programs
● Various sport activities coverage
● 18 days of paid vacation
● Fully paid by Forte 5 sick days during working year
● Internal English courses provided by Forte Teacher
● Comfortable and fully equipped workplace