Job Information
UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group) Lead Mobile Product Manager in Noida, India
Lead Mobile Product Manager
General Information
Ref #:
20240040188
Travel Amount Required:
Up to 25%
Job Type:
Regular-Full Time
Location:
Noida - India - India
Company Overview
Here at UKG, our purpose is people™. Our HR, payroll, and workforce management solutions help organizations unlock happier outcomes for all. And our U Krewers, who build those solutions and support our business, are talented, collaborative, and innovative problem-solvers. We strive to create a culture of belonging and an employee experience that empowers our people – both at work and at home. Our benefits show that we care about the whole you, from adoption and surrogacy assistance to tuition reimbursement and wellness programs. Our employee resource groups provide a welcoming place to land, learn, and connect with those who share your passions and interests. What are you waiting for? Learn more at www.ukg.com/careers #WeAreUKG
Description & Qualifications
Description
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Are you an experienced Product Manager with a strong passion for mobile and creating exceptional user experiences? Join our team at UKG and lead our Mobile team to new heights of excellence. As a Lead Product Manager for our Mobile team, you will play a crucial role in shaping the future of our software, ensuring consistency, usability, and elegance across our product suite. If you are a dedicated professional who thrives on solving complex design challenges, is a strong mobile advocate and enjoys collaborating across remote and in-person teams, we want to hear from you!
Your expertise will be the foundation upon which we build a seamless and user-friendly mobile experience. This Lead Product Manager will work closely with development teams to deliver on the overall mobile vision, always focusing on delivering customer value across multiple releases. You will manage this roadmap and ensure each product release is successful by fostering team collaboration, continuous improvement and representing the voice of the customer. You will own the direction of features for the mobile team and clearly define the product metric goals and the right mechanisms to collect, track, report and react to the data.
You will take responsibility for what features are built; helping the cross functional team of developers, designers, and testers understand vision and priority. It will be expected that you will stay current with evolving product practices and development methodologies and learn new skills as needed; identify process issues and propose process changes to resolve them; and mentor others within the product organization with best practices and latest trends.
Duties and Key Responsibilities:
Leads product development team
Inspires and leads development team with manager’s support but not authority.
Takes accountability for the successful delivery of all roadmap releases and features along with achieving product goals and KPIs.
Proactively problem-solves product development issues and escalates to senior leadership as needed.
Understands the market and becomes the voice of the customer
Leads discovery sessions with internal and external stakeholders.
Validates opportunities and solutions with internal and external customers as part of defining the product strategy, vision, and roadmap.
Uses data to help inform and prioritize product decisions and priorities.
Defines and manages the product strategy, vision, and roadmap
Uses customer insights and data to derive a compelling product value proposition and vision for the next 1-3 years.
Prioritizes features that meet the product’s vision and goals.
Owns the direction of features for the mobile team.
Breaks the product vision into product releases and features that continuously deliver value to the customer.
Manages product metrics
Clearly defines product metric goals and the right mechanisms to collect, track, report and react to the data.
Reports on product metrics with leadership on a regular basis.
Ensures organizational readiness
Keeps development, design and product teams up to date with the latest product vision and roadmap.
Assists with product positioning, key messaging and learning materials.
Possess the knowledge and the tools to be ready for internal training and demos.
Champions collaboration across the organization
Closely collaborates with other development teams across the organization to ensure their needs are being met.
Closely collaborates with other teams to clearly understand roadmap dependencies.
Assists services and engineering troubleshooting product escalations from customers.
Continuously improves the practice of product management
Stays current with evolving product practices and development methodologies and learns new skills as needed.
Identifies process issues and proposes process changes to resolve them.
Mentors others within the product organization with best practices and latest trends.
Manages the backlog
Prioritizes features and requirements to meet goals on time and with quality.
Owns definition and contributes to the direction of features for a product.
Breaks features into vertically sliced stories and clearly communicates these requirements to engineers and designers via user stories, flow diagrams, use case scenarios and acceptance criteria to help focus the team on solving the right challenges.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications: (Knowledge, Skills and Abilities)
At least 5 years of experience in a Product Manager role
Ability to work independently to understand, define and prioritize product features
Ability to work successfully within a team (onshore and virtual) and manage a dynamic environment with rapidly changing priorities.
Able to guide individuals with different personalities and styles to a common outcome.
Ability to inspire and lead development teams without management authority.
Effective communication skills (verbal and written); ability to communicate complex concepts to stakeholders.
Obsessed with delivering value to customers and being outcome driven
Analytical skills to understand product vision and break it into smaller but still valuable pieces
Proven record of delivering features on time, with quality and value (with an ability to modify scope)
Familiarity working with software development methods such as continuous integration, continuous delivery, unit testing, modules, agile development
Self-motivated, growth-mindset and passionate about product
Experience, Education, Certification, License and Training:
Bachelor’s Degree in business, tech, design or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience working with a team abroad
Mobile development experience
Familiarity with mapping user flows, and understanding how people use complex products or broad suites is a plus
Experience dealing and communicating with customers
EEO Statement
Equal Opportunity Employer
Ultimate Kronos Group is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment. All qualified applicants will receive considerations for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, genetic information, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, veteran status, and any other legally protected status under federal, state, or local anti-discrimination laws.
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Disability Accommodation
For individuals with disabilities that need additional assistance at any point in the application and interview process, please email UKGCareers@ukg.com.