Assignment description

In the Digital Core Platform organization part of our client’s goal is to enable application teams to develop, deploy and operate their software in an efficient, inspiring, and safe manner. Their application platform products are offered on GitOps, that they complement with Backstage to provide a convenient interface to their Users, the application development teams.

The company are seeking highly motivated and experienced Product Manager related to public cloud, container platform and a unified control plane in which dev teams can manage their resources. These products are part of the Developer Experience and Digital Foundation areas in Platform Unit.
The product teams are based out of Sweden, mainly Gothenburg and Stockholm, with some presence in India, working in a global and fast-paced environment with collaboration across geography, operational disciplines, and technology stacks.
You will be part of empowered cross-functional product teams of Engineers and Engineering Managers with access to User/Data Analysts who help understand their Users. You will develop the product strategy and define the product roadmap based on an integrated understanding of user needs, business direction, anticipated technology trends, and the required changes. You will initiate and lead collaborations with other products in Platform as well as application development teams. The platform development team expects you to drive the work to understand the product purpose and product strategy, do discovery and articulate development needs, contribute to the creation of feature specs and user stories, prioritize, and not least secure that the acceptance criteria are met and own the product outcome. You will be reporting to a Group Product Manager or Senior Product Manager with whom you will help maintain the high-level strategy. As a member of the extended Product Management team you can get further support and feedback from colleagues and together take part in reviewing and contributing to the Developer Experience or Digital Foundation areas’ vision and roadmap.

Who you are:

• An experienced Product Manager who has adopted a Lean-Agile mindset, applied servant leadership, has effective communication skills, understands the Empowered Product Team concept, and will collaborate well with Stakeholders and Users
• A proven record of accomplishment when working with defining what makes a great cloud or DevOps software platform product assortment and related user experience, and communicating that to the product team
• Excited about contributing to creating a best-in-class developer user experience, advocating user research based on user needs, technology field research and a data-inspired approach
• A growth mindset and a proven history of converting learnings from insights into tangible product features
• Ability to think end-to-end, and understand the developers but also understand the strategic needs and constraints
• An effective communicator
• Used to interacting with a wide set of stakeholders and getting buy-in for your ideas and roadmaps