Duties and Responsibilities:
- Define and manage the product strategy and roadmaps including prioritization and trade-offs among features, user experience and performance
- Deliver MRDs and PRDs with prioritized features and corresponding justification
- Research consumer applications, competition, industry trends and technological trends
- Gather requirements, coordinate design, and guide execution of features
- Identify, track and manage Key Performance Indicators for the allocated Mobile Products
- Analyze product metrics and trends to asses product health and improvement opportunities
- Integrate UX, business goals and technology capabilities into successful mobile products
- Prepare business case analysis and conduct requirements gathering
- Utilize market research, competitive analysis and best-in-class benchmarking to help define new products, functions and features
- Be an expert with respect to the competition
- Develop the core positioning and messaging for the product
- Deliver a monthly revenue forecast
- Propose an overall budget to ensure success
- Know and care more about your product than anyone in the world
- Act as a leader within the company.
Requirements:
- Excellent mobile consumer experience intuition – demonstrated success in developing and releasing innovative, user-friendly mobile applications
- Proven track record of conceiving, developing & optimizing mobile applications
- Proven track record of interacting and influencing all internal management levels, starting with C-level
- Technical aptitude – ability to understand and discuss architectural concepts, schedule trade-offs and new opportunities with technical team members
- Exposure to Agile and Scrum development methodologies
- Comfortable working in a busy, fast-growing environment.
- Experience writing Product Requirement Documents (PRD’s) and forecast models.
- Ability to work well under pressure and manage multiple tasks simultaneously, business writing skills required.
- Must be proficient in MS Office
- Professional and friendly communication skills (written and verbal) and comfort communicating with Project, UX and Engineering team members at all levels.
- Ability to manage multiple projects.
- Must be self-motivated, entrepreneurial, detail-oriented, challenged by accountability, and an innovator.
- Proactive in problem solving and taking responsibility to continuously improve our results.
- B.A. preferably in Business, Marketing or Computer Science
- 3+ years’ experience in management and design of mobile apps
- Excellent communication skills a must.
- Strong technology base, with awareness of developing trends and technology solutions
- English advanced.
Nice to have:
- Experience with experimentation methods (A/B testing, multivariate testing) & user testing (qualitative & quantitative)