Lead Product Manager (Hybrid)

What You Will Do

• Monitoring and overseeing your team’s projects. Ensuring that the projects are moving as expected, the backlogs are properly managed, and the development plans are sensible.
• Discovering new projects, understanding the pain points and users’ expectations, and defining how to approach the problems or innovations through user experience.
• Writing user stories, managing and grooming backlogs, and planning development sprints.
• Ensuring the quality of the products and features developed.
• Reviewing UX/UI designs.
• Supporting Engineering with implementation.
• Interacting with external stakeholders, listening to and understanding their feedback while defending your product decisions.
• Reviewing your team’s work, both internal (assets produced for Nimble) and external (assets produced for clients).
• Supporting the sales team in assessing potential product development projects, risks, and challenges.
• Mentoring your team members, providing support when necessary, and figuring out how to help each and every one of them grow as Product Managers.
• Reporting and providing insights to the Chief Product Officer.
• Participating in the definition of the Product team’s direction.
• Supporting the recruitment efforts and participating in the hiring process.
• Identifying and leading new initiatives.

Job Requirements

• 7+ years of professional experience as a Product Manager.
• 2+ years of experience managing other Product Managers.
• Some software programming experience.
• Based in Bangkok or willing to relocate to Bangkok

Product Design & Development

• You have a great attention to detail.
• You are opinionated. You also keep an open mind.
• You know UX patterns for mobile and web applications and the design language for iOS and Android (including native components).
• You know how to adapt the level of complexity of a design to the scope and context of a project. You can anticipate technical challenges when reviewing designs.
• You are familiar with usage and behavioral product data. You know how to obtain it (e.g., defining the right tracking), how to understand it, and how to leverage it.
• You have the ability to quickly learn and understand new industries. You have an interest in discovering new domains often.
• You know how to prioritize feature development in a given context to maximize the development team’s output.
• You know how to efficiently kick off a new product development (greenfield).
• You know how to efficiently take over the development of an existing product (brownfield).
• You have the knowledge and experience to conceptualize entire products quickly and assess their implementation complexity. You can anticipate associated risks and mitigate them.
• You have the product and business insights to identify and bring up new opportunities.

People Management

• You have experience leading and mentoring other Product Managers.
• You know how to identify your team members’ strengths, how to leverage those strengths, and how to develop them further.
• You know how to strengthen your team members’ weaknesses through mentoring and defining their growth objectives.
• You have the ability to set a direction and objectives for your team in order to reach the company’s higher goals.
• You have high expectations from others, and you know how to push and motivate them to deliver their best work.

Communication

• You have an English Professional working proficiency (ILR level 3).
• You have great listening and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• You are an expert at listening and communicating with stakeholders, including in difficult situations. You are comfortable handling difficult conversations, and you know how to diffuse them.
• You have great written communication skills. You know how to write clear content and how to structure it clearly.
• You excel at gathering requirements from clients even when the clients don’t fully know what they need just yet.
• You are used to working closely with Engineers to see through the correct development of a digital product.

Technical Knowledge

• You can use version control systems, especially git. You are familiar with Gitflow.
• You are familiar with CI/CD for web and mobile (all the way through publishing applications on store).
• You understand how APIs work, and you know how to use API management, documentation, and debugging tools (e.g., Postman, Swagger, Proxyman).
• You know how to architect data. You can create database schemas.
• You are familiar with the differences and specificities of web vs. iOS vs. Android, and you are familiar with cross-platform applications (e.g., Flutter).

Organization

• You have excellent time management and work organization skills.
• You can ensure that any and all product work produced by the team (e.g., backlogs, documentation, presentations) meets the level of quality that is expected of the team.
• You can foster a learning environment amongst all the product management team members.
• You have the experience to identify areas of improvement for the team, and you have the ownership to lead the documentation and implementation of those improvements.
• You understand the need for processes to repeat successes. You ensure that the right processes are followed, and you also know when flexibility is required.
• You know how to fully leverage your core Product Stack. You work smart. You understand the importance of the single source of truth idea and fight against duplicated content.