**DIRECTLY REPORTS TO**:Chief Product Officer**MAIN AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY**:The primary responsibility of the Lead Product Manager is planning and execution throughout theproduct life cycle, including gathering and prioritizing requirements, defining the product vision,and working closely with departments such as engineering, design, marketing, sales, and support to ensure goals are met. You will champion the data-driven products within the Sprout ecosystem. Ifyou live and breathe data and are passionate about unlocking value through data-drivenproducts, this is the role for you.**TASKS**:- Manage products through the product development life-cycle using Agile Scrummethodology.- Understand customer needs, gather and define product requirements, features, andfunctionality. Gather business requirements, prioritize features, author user stories, andacceptance criteria, and collaborate with scrum team members to ensure productfeatures are delivered according to specifications.- Build and maintain an effective and groomed backlog providing clear requirements fornew initiatives and enhancements.- Work closely with the Product Design & UX team to bring engaging user experiences tolife.- Analyze the impact, usage, and adoption of features and improvements to confirm theyhad the right effect on the business, and if not, make corrective actions to ensure it meetsthe required success criteria.- Research and understand competitive offerings, regulations, and other industryconstraints, operational impacts, and needs.- Assist with Sales enablement, and demonstrate new features and the product to internaland external stakeholders as needed.- Take a hands-on approach to operational monitoring and product launch activities, andassist product marketing as needed.- Look for opportunities to innovate that could lead to new features and products**QUALIFICATIONS | COMPETENCIES**:- At least ten years of work experience, with at least five years of product managementexperience. Experience in a startup environment would be a bonus.- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, or a related field ispreferred.- Expert in product management methodologies and tools such as agile, scrum and JIRA.- Experience in building data/analytics-oriented products and well versed in the languageof analytics.- Excellent written and oral communication skills. Adept at communicating with technicaland non-technical cross-functional teams.- Able to engage internal and external stakeholders and manage their expectations.- Ability to work effectively and independently under pressure, meet deadlines, multitask, and prioritize tasks effectively.- A good analytical and critical thinking mindset with good attention to details and aproblem-solving approach. Capable of performing qualitative and quantitative analysis.- Outcome-driven mindset is a must. Individuals with an entrepreneurial bent of mind wouldbe a great fit.zQfy48eG2k
