Product Owner- Project Manager

Work Location : Abu Dhabi

Responsibilities:

• Determine and define project scope and objectives.
• Develop and manage a detailed project schedule and work plan.
• Ensure that all projects are delivered on time, within the scope, and within budget.
• Report and escalate to management as needed .
• Provide project updates consistently to the line manager about strategy, adjustments, and progress.
• Monitor progress and make adjustments as needed.
• Measure project performance to identify areas for improvement.
• Manage relationships with clients and stakeholders. 
• Design and signing off on related documents. 
• Manage and prioritize the product backlog.
• Responsible for innovation and end-to-end launch of products.
• Collaborates with global commercial services partners and customers to co-develop a roadmap and drive products and features from concept to launch in a fast-paced environment.
• Works with cross-functional teams and various stakeholders, including analytics, design/user experience, engineering, and user enablement.
• Turns data insights into products with actionable outcomes to the ultimate customer.
• Works in an Agile environment and continuously reviews the business needs, define priorities, outlines milestones and deliverables, and identifies opportunities and risks.
• Partners with stakeholders and customers across the organization to inform the product vision, strategy, features, and prioritization.
• Develops, owns, and executes product roadmap.
• Works with user-focused departments to define the self-service user experience, support, and monitoring for customers.
• Partners with sales departments to define the user experience for internal GCS users, including support and monitoring.
• Translates product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including features, user stories, and acceptance test criteria.
• Prioritizes and maintains the sprint backlog for assigned products, balancing the requirements of stakeholders.
• Leads the product functional design process based on an intimate knowledge of the users and technology.
• Defines and executes the go-to-market plan, working to ensure that product management, marketing, and sales have what they need to be successful.
• Develops and maintains appropriate tracking and reporting of product performance post-launch to evaluate the future investment.
• Supervise and advise the scrum team to meet software expectations.
• Manage the product development team to create a strong end product.
• Nurture ideas and solutions to existing customer problems.
• Communicate effectively with team members to achieve project goals.
• Extract and retrieve information and data sets to improve upon software.
• Determine roadmaps for products in the creation phase.
• Work closely with the scrum team throughout the development process.
• Schedule and lead meetings to identify issues and fixes for projects.

Experience:

• Minimum 8 years work experience in project management in the information technology sector & Software Development .
• Mandatory Experience working on Agile methodology.

Competencies :

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven ability to solve problems creatively.
• Strong familiarity with project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and extremely resourceful.
• Team player.
• Time Management and Organization skills.
• Problem-solving skills.
• In-depth understanding of industry market conditions and trends.
• Successful track record of developing products within deadlines
• Excellent attention to detail
• Creative and innovative thinker.

Education :

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business, or any relevant field.
• A Master's in business administration is a plus.
• Project management qualification (PMP) or equivalent.

Language : 

• Arabic
• English