Associate Product Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Australia.

📋 Description

• Engage in discovery initiatives to comprehend customer challenges, requirements, and contexts.

• Interact with customers, end users, and internal stakeholders to foster empathy and insights.

• Assist in synthesizing research, feedback, and operational insights into concise problem statements.

• Work alongside Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers to investigate potential solutions.

• Acquire a thorough understanding of customer workflows, difficulties, and desired results.

• Draft, refine, and uphold clear user stories in partnership with the engineering team.

• Aid in breaking down tasks into significant, incremental results that provide customer value.

• Ensure user stories effectively express user needs, acceptance criteria, and business context.

• Participate in backlog refinement to confirm that work is well understood, prioritized, and ready for implementation.

• Serve as a liaison between customer intent and engineering execution.

• Assist Product Managers in converting product vision into precise delivery plans.

• Coordinate delivery efforts among engineering, design, QA, and business stakeholders.

• Monitor progress against plans, milestones, and release commitments.

• Identify delivery risks, dependencies, and obstacles, escalating as necessary.

• Maintain delivery documentation, including timelines, release notes, and status updates.

• Facilitate product releases across teams to guarantee readiness and alignment.

• Support release planning, sequencing, and cutover activities.

• Manage release communications to internal stakeholders.

• Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success to aid in product launches.

• Assist in creating launch materials such as release notes, FAQs, demos, and internal training content.

• Keep product documentation, acceptance criteria, and operational records up to date.

• Help manage inter-team dependencies and shared delivery schedules.

• Contribute to the ongoing enhancement of product discovery and delivery methodologies.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 3-5 years of overall professional experience in a corporate or fast-paced startup setting.

• At least 1+ years of targeted experience in Product Management, Product Coordination, or Product Operations.

• Strong project coordination and organizational abilities.

• Experience in agile software delivery environments.

• Capability to write clear, user-focused stories and acceptance criteria.

• Comfort in closely collaborating with engineers on problem definition and scope.

• Strong customer empathy and curiosity regarding user needs and behaviors.

• Ability to juggle multiple priorities while keeping an eye on detail.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

🏝️ Benefits

• Commitment to company values.

• Collaborative work environment.

• Opportunities for professional growth.