Associate Product Manager

Summary:

The Associate Product Managerworks to define the product enhancements and strategies for our internal products and applications. They will prioritize tasks and new features so that the development schedule is aligned with corporate priorities.

The Associate Product Manager works with the developers, business analysts and designers to ensure that the new features and improvements of the applications are of high quality and add the expected value. The Associate Product Managerparticipates in sprint planning to ensure that the scheduled tasks are in line with the corporate priorities and deadlines.

Specifically you will:

• Work to define product enhancements and strategies.
• Report on the products’ roadmaps to the Digital Product & Strategy Manager and the Digital Product & Strategy Director.
• Use a data-driven, empirical approach to product development.
• Work with the Digital Product & Strategy Manager to help develop the product roadmap and maintain/update the roadmap throughout the year to ensure it reflects the current product state.
• Work with the Digital Product & Strategy Manager to define, monitor and report on KPIs that align with product goals / initiatives.
• Work with the Solutions and Enterprise Teams to help prioritize features/projects and manage workflow.
• Maintain and prioritize the backlog for the products managed.
• Work with the QA team to ensure that releases are adequately tested and stable.
• Review feedback and analyze data sources (Heap, Google Analytics, Inspectlet etc.) to identify existing users’ product needs.
• Work cross-functionally with product stakeholders to identify product needs for potential/future users.
• Drive the formulation of product hypotheses.
• Engage in customer discovery – contact potential and existing users to seek validation or rejection of product hypotheses.
• Communicate with developers and designers to ensure rapid iteration.
• Manage the product-level integration and workflow between multiple products and teams.
• Identify new opportunities and service improvements.
• Align product launch activities with training activities.
• Achieve performance targets.
• Collaborate and communicate effectively with team members and all other teams.
• Responsively and effectively handle issues.
• Look for ways to improve customer experience.
• Promote and model TuGo culture, values, and brand promise.
• Continuously build professional and technical expertise.
• Other duties as required.

• Degree in business and/or computer sciences
• 2+ years of relevant experience in designing and/or building products, with a demonstrated knowledge of product management and ownership
• Experience working with eCommerce, B2B, B2C and/or SAAS products
• Possesses an ability to construct clear-cut product requirements and technical documentation
• Knowledge of tech industry programming environments and development methodologies, such as agile project management
• Experienced in creating and implementing product plans and strategies
• Early adopter of technologies and very technology minded
• Familiarity with project management software such as JIRA is preferred
• Excellent organizational skills
• Ability to adjust to a steep learning curve in order to ramp up quickly on new projects
• Ability to create and present effective presentations to senior management
• Knowledge of the insurance industry is not required but is considered an asset
• Ability to work independently or as part of a team
• Ability to take initiative and be pro-active
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
• Strong team player and positive contributor
• Well-developed analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
• Able to consistently live our values of being purposeful, achievement-oriented, cohesive, evolutionary and treating others as you want to be treated
• A strong customer experience focus
• A passion for continuous learning and professional achievement
• A passion for travel
• Successful completion of a criminal record check