Product & Project Owner at Crayon

Role Description

Looking for a Project and Product manager who can multitask and collaborate within a multidisciplinary group to join a team of creative imagineers. As a Project and Product Manager you will need to:

• Run your project with some mentorship from a senior project and product manager within the group
• Develop the skills, knowledge and attitude to run your projects more independently in the near future

The position requires knowledge of and experience in implementing agile product development principles. These skills will be tested extensively in the recruitment process.

Salary

• R50,000 – R60,000  per month (negotiable based on experience)

Responsibilities

Project Management:

• Update milestones and budget based on changes in the project
• Update people’s hours and other resource allocations to the project
• Project plan update with dependencies in mind
• Financial updates and Invoicing
• Risk report compilation
• Prepare for and manage the scheduling of regular meetings such as Sprint Review, Sprint Planning, Sprint, Retrospectives and Project Retrospectives
• Prepare for and manage the scheduling of ad hoc meetings between various project stakeholders
• Efficient delivery of projects
• Month by month invoice forecast that is based in realistic planning

Scrum Master:

• Remove impediments to delivery
• Contribute to team members’ happiness in regards to delivery
• Implement the Scrum (or other Agile methodology) processes and tools that the team decides on
• Meet Sprint goals

Expectation Management

• Everyone involved in a situation has a picture in their head of that situation. Expectation management is making sure that none of those pictures conflicts with reality or each other substantially.
• Facilitate decisions on the project timeline, budget and scope changes with stakeholders from clients, management, teams and others
• Ensure continuous alignment between all stakeholders
• Ensure collaboration between all stakeholders

Product management

• Define and update product vision and strategy
• Deliver products that deliver on clients’ business goals through alignment with end-user needs within budget and/or on time
• Plan and maintain the product roadmap
• Insist on data- and evidence-based decision making
• Gain an understanding of market trends, partner ecosystems
• and competitive strategies
• Researching the market and competition
• Understand product risks and how to address them with various product discovery techniques
• Utilise product optimisation techniques to rapidly improve and refine a product once it is live and in production, including defining and tracking product metrics
• Play a supporting role for the team and product marketing during product delivery, including resource allocation to deliver on the roadmap
• Facilitate client decision making with a deep understanding of Product Ownership
• Collaborate with technical and design functions and provide input in technical and design decisions

Requirements

• 3 years’ experience in Agile software development
• 3 years’ experience as a project manager
• 7 years’ overall work experience
• A degree in engineering, computer science or the sciences
• Understand the fundamentals of product management

Nice to have:

• Have fulfilled multiple roles in software development e.g. design, coding, user research, QA
• Experience in business (your own or someone else’s) at a strategic and tactical level e.g. freelancer, entrepreneur
• Experience at multiple companies, or with multiple clients

Soft Skills:

• Keen ability to empathise with multiple stakeholders and facilitate decision making
• Relationship management
• Deeply collaborate with various stakeholders
• Self-management
• Social awareness and self-awareness

Perks

• Lots of autonomy within your role
• Opportunities to receive mentorship
• The priority attached to learning, training & growth within this role
• Work within a growing team
• The innovative, fast-paced and fun work environment
• Flexible, results-oriented culture
• Daily meals at the office
• Great Coffee at the office