Product Manager IV

Notes from the HM Call:
Job Title: Product Manager IV
Job ID: EBAYJP00021838
Location: San Jose, CA
Manager Name: Amit Rawat -

MSP: Erin Pirro
Bill Rate: 114.96
Duration: 6 months and will be extended
Schedule: 3 days in office and 2 days remote (9 to 5)

Must Have Skills:

• 5 to 7 yrs exp as a product manager working on user facing products.
  eCommerce experience is preferred or Consumer facing products electronics
• Own the product, work on multiple projects
• Tools n Technology: Nothing in particular but Data Analytics is very important

Product: This is with the Seller Experience Team. Business policies, this product is for the business seller will be working on shipping, returns, user create business policy, shipping policy, attaching it using UI tools also APIs impact on business sellers. Tech migrations, most of the projects which are in pipeline are seller facing projects. No strategy for the product but for the net new project may have a plan. Work with sellers n users, how will I plan to execute it, looking at current product see what can be solved,

Day to Day: Scrum based, will work with team go through all the Agile processes, write user stories (will be asked in the interview), high visibility, and will manage multiple products. Good experience and open to work on multiple things.

Did not work:

• Expectations to come to office
• Previous candidate had a lot of experience and candidate was not open to learn
• Focused Product Manager
• Need someone who has experience managing multiple products

Interview:

• 3 rounds 45 minutes each (2nd and 3rd round can be clubbed together)
• Product skills, execution, seller experience, listing experience, execution and phasing it out, worked with engineers and designers, how is the product sense launch a product

Title: Product Manager

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The Team:
You would be joining the Seller Experience organization within Client's which is at the heart of the overall Client's marketplace. The Seller Experience team focuses on end-to-end digital experiences for our sellers, making it seamless to list, sell and grow a thriving business with Client's. Our Sellers are at the center of everything we do, and our product, engineering and design teams obsess over building best-in-class experiences that our Client's seller community loves.
You will drive a product area within our seller mobile and web experiences and supporting tools. You will define the overall product strategy for one or more seller facing experiences, prioritizing a roadmap that aligns our platforms and services against a cohesive and consistent experience catered for our unique seller communities.
You obsess over solving meaningful customer problems with both impactful and measurable outcomes. This role requires exceptional execution and communication skills, having demonstrated the ability to connect and collaborate both within our team and with partners. Our team values center around collaboration, acting with urgency, connecting with sellers, and most importantly, having fun.

Primary responsibilities:
- Obsess the Customer & Overall Quality of Experiences. Demonstrate a relentless focus to listen to our end-users and feed their voice into our product development process. Leverage design and research partnerships to get insights and feedback throughout the entire product lifecycle. Build processes for continuous improvements.

- Collaborate with supporting product, design and engineering teams across Client's to align plans, and gain support across functions: analytics, marketing, operations, sales, and strategy.

- Synthesize customer insights, quantitative and qualitative data, and business strategy into product concepts and requirements.

- Understand Client's s strategic and market position for sellers and deliver products that are recognized best in the industry.

- Conduct competitive analysis by critically evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of competitive offerings.

- Breakdown the feature-set into manageable tasks. Follow Agile methodologies to create actionable epics, user-stories, bugs and technical specifications for the prioritized product feature.

- Develop a clear understanding of the technical architecture and design to identify the dependencies. Work with Engineering partners to define the scope and timelines.

- Collaborate with program managers and stakeholders through regular meeting cadences to track progress, identify risks and report status to leadership.

- Drive engineering discussions to convert customer problems into functional and technical requirements and architectural solutions. Lead technical scoping discussions, evaluate development cost, make trade-off decisions based on engineering effort and customer impact.

- Work closely with engineers during software development, review test cases, lead software testing sessions to ensure a high-quality product is built and released that meets SLAs (Service Level Agreement).

- Coordinate software releases, including release notes, training, and marketing, to maximize the impact of end-to-end product solutions.

Requirements:

To be successful in this role a candidate must have:
- At least 5-years of experience as a product manager working on user facing products.
- A passion for building great user experiences across web and mobile devices.
Solid technical background, experience managing software products using agile methodologies.
- Customer/user focus and have a can do attitude.
- Ability to write clear, complete, and implementable user stories and specifications.
- Excellent project management skills and the ability to coordinate and work on cross-group projects.
- Design and problem solving skills to come up with innovative and creative solutions.
- Capability to work independently and drive projects with many moving parts.
- Experience with e-commerce as a seller, product manager or frequent buyer.