Technical Product Manager

Technical Product Manager
ManpowerGroup Ireland have an exciting new opportunity with our client SAP! This is a 6-month contract role with the possibility to extend to 12 months employed with ManpowerGroup Ireland. This position is a hybrid role based in Dublin.

We are seeking a highly motivated Product Manager to lead the next phase of development for an exciting new product that links a third-party platform with SAP systems. This role will be responsible for creating and driving the product roadmap, ensuring that business requirements are effectively prioritised to meet both user needs and technical feasibility.
With the product reaching Minimum Viable Product (MVP) stage in January, the successful candidate will play a crucial part in steering its evolution, transforming it from MVP to a fully-fledged solution. You'll be interfacing with a variety of stakeholders, including end users, internal business units, and technical teams, as well as collaborating closely with our third-party vendor. This is an opportunity to shape a critical integration product that bridges our systems with a strategic external partner.
Your work will be key in balancing diverse inputs, delivering value, and ensuring alignment across business, technical, and user needs as we take this product to the next level.

Experience in Product Management (5+ years):
Minimum of 5 years in a Product Manager role, ideally at a large software or technology company.
Technical Skills:

• API Development: Experience working with RESTful APIs, understanding API design, implementation, and integration processes.
• Understanding of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC): Knowledge of the full development cycle and how APIs play a role in different stages.
• Technical Acumen: Ability to understand technical concepts and communicate with engineering teams effectively.

User Feedback and Customer Focus:

• User-Centric Design: Ability to gather, analyse, and implement feedback from users to guide product evolution.
• Customer Empathy: Understanding customer pain points and using these insights to prioritise feature development.

Requirements Gathering:

• Cross-Functional Communication: Ability to translate business requirements into technical requirements and vice versa. Experience working closely with stakeholders across engineering, marketing, and operations.
• Business Analysis: Skills in analysing business processes and determining how new or enhanced API capabilities could solve business problems or create new opportunities.

Product Strategy and Roadmap Development:

• Ability to develop product roadmaps and ensure alignment with business and customer needs.
• Experience with prioritising features, using frameworks such as MoSCoW or RICE.

Project and Stakeholder Management:

• Agile/Scrum: Familiarity with Agile methodologies and experience working in an iterative development environment.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Proven track record of working with multiple stakeholders, both technical and non-technical, to align on product goals and deliverables.

Analytical Skills:

• Data-Driven Decision Making: Ability to use data and analytics tools to inform product decisions and track key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Market Research: Competency in understanding market trends, competitors, and user behaviour to influence product features.

Soft Skills:

• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially in translating complex technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Leadership: Strong leadership abilities, particularly in leading cross-functional teams without formal authority.
• Problem Solving: Ability to approach problems creatively and develop solutions that benefit both users and the business.

For more information about this role kindly contact Aminat Ibrahim on [email protected]