Position: Product Manager for Ciklum Digital
Company: Ciklum
Experience required: 3y
Category: Product Manager
English level: upper
Published: 2021-02-01T00:00:00+02:00

A unique opportunity has arisen for a Product Manager to play an important role in building a new C2B2B online used car marketplace that leverages the extensive network of petrol stations and worldwide respected brand.

You will work best when things move fast. You will enjoy working with smart, creative, and energetic people. As part of a highly ambitious start-up team, your role will be hands-on with real responsibility and impact from day one

**Responsibilities:**
- Drive new product launches including working with marketing and other business owners
- Lead product creation and continuous improvement through the whole PDLC. Create and maintain the Product Roadmap
- Gain a deep understanding of customer experience, identify and fill product gaps and generate new ideas that grow market share, improve customer experience and drive growth
- Be the voice of the customer and champion their needs to ensure the right level of focus and prioritization
- Propose improvement methods and appropriate solution options
Identify and define business needs and goals. Outline clearly stakeholders’ impact and their outlook on the project and teams
- Ensure cross-functional dependencies are properly stated and managed
- Manage solution scope, detect and track changes. Manage requirements related conflicts and issues up to resolution
- Prioritize requirements and manage their allocation. Define non-functional requirements including external interfaces and constraints
- Monitor solution implementation and conduct internal and external solution acceptance
- Collaborate proactively with Business Stakeholders, Project Managers, and Teams to reach a common understanding of the solution to address the needs
- Care about continuous improvement of customer satisfaction
- Prepare and constantly improve business analysis approach and communication plan

**Requirements:**
- 4+ years of Product Management experience with direct product ownership including defining solutions from idea to production
- Experience in managing a successful B2C product
- Fluent English. Outstanding verbal and written skills including strong cross-cultural communication and the ability to draft effective communications
- Proven ability to take initiative, own and complete projects, deliver results in a fast-paced work environment
- Deep knowledge of technical architecture and platform heavy products and used to working with backend and infrastructure engineers. A clear understanding of principles and specifics of software development methodologies
- Extensive knowledge of business analysis activities and techniques
- 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

**Desirable:**
- MBA or technical Master’s degree preferred
- Understanding of UI / UX principles. Knowledge of prototyping tools
- Proven experience working with people in a variety of cultures, countries, and time zones
- Experience in using one of the next analytics tools: Google Analytics, - Power B, HotJar

**Personal skills:**
- Strong stakeholder management skills
- Excellent relationship building, facilitation, and influencing skills
- Entrepreneurial mindset; a self-starter who can handle multiple projects and prioritize workloads
- Positive attitude and proactive communication
- Strong self-motivation, reliable, and flexible team-player. High attention to details
- Always seeking to improve processes and suggest better solutions
- Setting clear goals and priorities. Time-management, ability to handle multitasking activities, and prioritization

**What's in it for you:**
- Build your career in a proven successful high growth company with a unique service offering on the market
- Ability to work on challenging projects, deal with complex solutions
- Nicely designed, centrally located offices with a warm atmosphere that creates good working conditions
- A unique working environment where you communicate and work directly with the client
- Friendly collaborative teams and an enjoyable working environment
- Competitive salary
- Variety of knowledge sharing, training, and self-development opportunities