Product Manager
Capgemini
About Capgemini
Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.
About the role
As Product Manager you will manage a Product built on Agile fundamentals and work towards adopting tech best practices and cutting edge tools. You’ll be adept at delivering the product, breaking down barriers for your team and both planning at a higher level and getting into the details to make things happen when needed. You will be core to decisions that build high performing teams, where people are excited about the work they are undertaking.
What to Expect:
- Deliver projects and products using the appropriate agile project management methodology, learning & iterating frequently.
- Recommends the nature and scope of present and future product lines by reviewing product specifications and requirements.
- Brings new products to market by analysing proposed product requirements and product development.
- Introduces and markets new products by developing time-integrated plans with marketing and production.
- Lead the collaborative, dynamic planning process - prioritizing the work that needs to be done against the capacity and capability of the team.
- Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
- Understand the different technical aspects of the project including the capabilities and limitations of the systems.
- Communicate or share technical insights of a project to internal or external audiences.
- Support the Product Owner, especially on grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
- Define the roadmap and ensure user stories are created for product development in JIRA, Confluence etc.
- Groom the product backlog, prioritise user stories, technical tasks and bug fixes into the sprints.
- Work with the Product Owner, Technical Lead, Business Analysts, User Experience Designers, Engineers in planning the activities required and timeline for each release.
- Responsible for tracking the application bugs, assessing impact and severity of bugs.
- Follow up and support assistance where required for the team to resolve any impediments or issues they faced from their daily standup.
- Bridge communication between multiple teams (business and technical). This includes creating documentation or presentations when necessary.
- Measure project development velocity, perform and manage the project risks. Identify and escalate any important risk.
- Continuously gather user feedback, analyze market trends, and identify opportunities for product improvements and new features.
- Assist in government processes, such as procurement, project finance and any other administrative needs in accordance to government policies and documentation requirements
How to Succeed:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science/Engineering, Information Technology, Communications or other related disciplines..
- Eager to change and improve workflow and processes. Willing to assist team members. Strong ability in fostering teamwork and collaborations.
- Self-driven and motivated to learn and follow topics related to the projects
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills to devise practical solutions to tackle work issues
- Solid understanding of end-to-end agile software development process (Scrum and Kanban).
- Understand the project from the business and technical point of view
- Excellent communication skills. Able to communicate with technical and non-technical users.
Preferred:
- Experience with using, maintaining and customizing software development tools such as Confluence, SharePoint, Jira, etc.
- Experience in ops-tech integration, AI/ ML creation and implementation, SAAS platform management, UI/UX design and research strategy, go-to market strategy for software services preferred
- Understanding of government to government working relationship and familiarity with public service policies
- Proven experience in defining and executing product strategies, roadmaps, and go-to-market plans.
Let's talk about what's in it for you!
Passionate people are Capgemini's Ace of Spades - join us to discover a career that will challenge, support and inspire you. Working at Capgemini you'll find the rewards are more than just financial. You will work alongside some very smart and inspiring people on exciting projects and you will also enjoy incredible benefits. We offer flexible work practices and 40 hours of self-development every year with a huge selection of learning opportunities to choose from.
As 'Architects of Positive Futures', Capgemini actively supports the community in 3 ways:
Diversity and Inclusion - we believe diversity of thought fuels excellence and innovation, which is why we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified candidates regardless of their gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, ability, intersex status or age. To support our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we celebrate special events and days of significance that are important to our employees such as Diwali, Bastille Day, Pride, IDAHOBIT, IWD and International day of people with Disabilities. Our Employee Resource Groups Women@Capgemini and OutFront support the grassroots passion of employees to drive our diversity agenda and effect change.
Digital inclusion - at Capgemini we are using our skills to drive social impact initiatives focusing on helping society address the impact of the digital and automation revolution. We also provide employees with opportunities to give back to the community through charity projects and volunteer days.
Environmental Sustainability - Capgemini joined the CDP's (Carbon Disclosure Project) prestigious 'A list' for its commitment to the Net-Zero economy. We are focusing on helping our clients transform towards more sustainable business models and committing to reduce our own carbon emissions (GHG) by 20% per employee by 2020.
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Come join us, bring your whole self to work, create new possibilities for you, your customers and your community and help us to be Architects of Positive Futures.