Position: Project/Product Manager for long term work in Digital Product Agency
Company: The Ventur
Category: Project Manager
Experience required: 1y
English level: upper

**About you**

You have strong verbal & written communication skills and feel comfortable talking with native speakers, write documentation, and consuming information in English.

You have Basic UX Skills to be able to solve a user problem, judge the current product and identify opportunities for improvement to drive business results.

You have good technical skills (or at least a solid understanding of the dev process). So you can understand how the product works under the hood and judge the feasibility of your ideas.

You are a ruthless prioritizer and able to identify ideas that drive results to do them first and not get distracted on time sucks.

You have basic business skills & marketing skills to be able to push the product development towards reaching business goals.

As well you have commercial experience as a Project/Product Manager of web-based products. Preferably inside of the Agency where you directly communicated with clients and managed their expectations.

You are willing to give feedback to team members to ensure delivering a product up to requirements. And you're able to make decisions to help reach product goals.

You are ready to commit 40 hours per week to managing the project.


**Your skills and experience**

Must have:
- **1+ year of commercial experience** as Project/Product Manager
- Have **experience managing a Web App Development** team (Frontend React Developer, Backend Node Developer, UI/UX Designer)
- **English** - Upper-Intermediate or higher

Nice to have:
- **Communication skills** to be able effectively to communicate with stakeholders, team & manage expectations
- **Writing skills** to be able to communicate with a client, write reports and define projects and product documentation
- **UX Skills** to be able to define and scope elements when shaping features, judge the current application, and identify opportunities for improvement
- **Technical skills or** **Technical literacy** to be able to judge what's possible, difficult/easy when shaping features, and understand technical patterns
- Ability to write **Product Documentation**
- **SDLC Knowledge** to be able to manage process with a development team
- **Basic business skills** to be able to contribute to achieving business goals when shaping product and be able adequately to prioritize a backlog
- **Prioritization skills** to be able to define roadmap and prioritize a backlog

**About the project**

We are currently 9 weeks into building a new Fintech SaaS Product from scratch. The project is already scoped and planned.

It is a web application built with:

- JavaScript/TypeScript
- React.js/Next.js
- Node.js
- AWS
- Github Actions CI/CD

Product Team consists of:

- 1 Frontend React Developer
- 1 Backend Node.js Developer
- 1 UI/UX Designer
- 1 QA Specialist

The client is based in Australia. The best time for communication with the client is from 8 am to 11 am.


**What you are gonna be doing**

Your full-time responsibility will be managing 1 product but split into 2 tracks:

- Product management (predominantly)
- Project management

We believe that the Product Development team should be autonomous to be able to take ownership over their work and deliver great results.

Right now we are building systems so the development team could be autonomous and most of your time could be dedicated to Product Management and strategic thinking.

As a Product Manager you'll:

- Handle client requests and anticipate client needs and add them to shaping pipeline
- Shaping Features, releases and do strategic thinking about a project
- Roadmap planning
- Create Product Documentation
- Work with Analytics
- Backlog Prioritization
- Conduct Sprint Review with Stakeholders
- Conduct Sprint Planning

As a Project Manager you'll:

- Running Sprint kick-off meetings with Team
- Handling request from the client
- Facilitate issue resolution with team & client
- Providing the team with feedback & information
- Accept/Review work from the team
- Writing reports to Client Every Sprint

**If you feel like a match, please reply to this position. And please include the word "Ficus" at the beginning of your reply. Reply's without this word will be ignored.**