Digital Product Manager, Translation Management Systems

📋 Description

• Act as the primary representative for TMS.

• Establish the product vision and roadmap for the TMS, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives and user needs.

• Analyze market trends in translation technology to identify innovative opportunities within the TMS.

• Set priorities and approve work produced by cross-functional teams, ensuring the optimal implementation of the TMS.

• Address product-related challenges, make informed decisions, and conduct trade-off analyses to maintain progress towards deliverable commitments.

• Have a fundamental understanding of the end-to-end customer experience integration and its dependencies.

• Create and track functional KPIs to report outcomes and guide future strategies.

• Oversee development and release management for digital initiatives.

• Collaborate with stakeholders, developers, and project management during the visioning and concept development of features, considering budget and resource limitations.

• Organize discovery meetings with stakeholders, technical leads, and other product managers to refine concepts and build functional requirements.

• Outline scope and define backlog items (capabilities/epics/user stories) that direct the development team utilizing Scrum and Agile methodologies.

• Manage functional and data dependencies with other digital product managers.

• Participate in regular stand-up, grooming, and retrospective meetings.

• Consistently communicate development progress to management and stakeholders.

• Engage in sprint testing to validate features and gather feedback for ongoing enhancement.

• Drive UAT test cases and defects to resolution in partnership with the development team.

• Represent the team during release cutover, go-live, and sign-off processes.

• Take part in stabilization efforts to monitor defect statuses and transfer unresolved issues to the backlog.

• Maintain a suitably prioritized backlog of user stories for implementation.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree or equivalent qualification.

• At least 4+ years of practical experience as a Product Manager for a digital product, platform, or SaaS solution (not limited to localization or TMS).

• Proven ownership of product vision, roadmap, backlog, and release lifecycle in an Agile setting.

• Experience in translating business and user needs into product requirements, prioritizing features, and making trade-off decisions.

• Established record of collaborating with IT, UX, and cross-functional teams to deliver new product features or enhancements.

• Preferred: Experience in launching new digital products or significant features from concept to go-live.

• Familiarity with stakeholder management, business case development, and product strategy.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility for a bonus.

• Stock options and other benefits.