Position: Technical Product Manager - Computational Agronomy
Company: Cropwise
Category: Product Manager
Experience required: 2y
English level: intermediate
Published: 2023-03-01T00:00:00+02:00

Our product is a set of computational agronomy capabilities based on large volume of growers data, AI, computer vision and mathematical/statistical models.
Our customers are growers and companies who support growers with crop protection and fertilising products.

We are looking for a product manager who will understand the customer and represent them to the development team. Who will be responsible for refining the product backlog, advising product planning to ensure customer satisfaction, and strategizing how to create better products for the customers.

**Responsibilities are:**
- Own the product roadmap
- Uncover and understand customer needs and translate them into requirements.
- Ability to work well with internal teams, including developers, engineers, architects, quality assurance, and operations. 
- Ensure requirements are fully understood and that implementation plans match expectations.
- Understand, research, and follow technical trends in the industry and in general. 
- Able to assess emerging products and companies to measure their potential value or threat to the company and its products, as well as make recommendations on which new technologies to invest in or leverage.
- Follow competitors and conduct capability analysis regularly.
- Provide internal and customer training on how to use the product.
- Answer incoming questions about the product and its capabilities.
- Assess and address technical risks.
- Understand and analyze data pipelines, algorithms, and automated systems.
- Serve as a product evangelist and subject matter expert to the technical/developer community.
- Coordinate beta tests.
- Use database queries to analyze performance indicators, evaluate experiments, etc.
- Define success criteria for testing and product acceptance.
- Facilitate the creation and maintenance of proper product documentation.

**Required skills and qualifications**
- Fluent English
- Experience in a dynamic product management role
- Proven success in overseeing all elements of the product development lifecycle
- Basic knowledge of SQL or any script language
- High level understanding of how SaaS technically built and works
- Basic knowledge of mathematical statistics
- High effectiveness in managing cross-functional teams
- Good writing and editing skills, combined with presentation skills

**Preferred skills and qualifications**
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in product design or engineering
- Previous experience in software and web development
- Proven success as a product developer in a nonmanagerial role
- Demonstrable knowledge of SEM (search engine marketing) and online advertising