Location
Pune | India
Job description
Application Deadline: 31 March 2024
Department: Project Management
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Pune, India
Reporting To: Brian Mann
Description ParentPay Group is a Europe's leading software product company and UK's largest education technology business. We are on a mission to bring next-generation innovation to positively impact on the lives of millions of parents, teachers, and students every day in over 49 countries.
Our market leading products use cutting edge cloud-based technology to streamline school processes, including secure web and mobile apps that enable secure online payments for school items such as meals, trips, clubs and uniform, improve parental engagement, simplify meal management and - through our flagship product SIMS - collect and manage a database of student information and core school operations.
ParentPay Group's new offices in Pune are a fantastic tech hub for those looking to boost their careers in software product development.
The bright young team who works for ParentPay FastTrack their career ahead with international exposure and ways of working based on agile development best practices from globally renowned technology consultancies.
Successful candidates work with leading edge, agile development methodologies such as Pair Programming, trunk-based development etc.
Job Description:-- Working with the Product Manager, you will be responsible for understanding and breaking the vision into executable goals, driven by the value to be created, that can be achieved in an iterative manner within your team
- Maximise the value addition to the products
- Use a variety of approaches and techniques (eg. user journeys, process mapping, use cases) to understand and communicate requirements
Key Responsibilities - Where necessary, translate external technical requirements and specifications and articulate these into detailed user stories underpinned by a sound understanding of the business objectives
- Own and evolve the team backlog, ensuring it is detailed, prioritised, well understood, up to date, properly estimated, relevant to delivery time scales. Collaborate with your team to write and manage user stories through to production
- Communicate proficiently with the development team to explain the product features that are to be implemented
- Collaborate within a cross-functional team, listening, facilitating and contributing to drive a common purpose, make decisions and achieve goals as an empowered, autonomous team
- Map and comprehend risks in delivering against goals alongside the Delivery Manager, reducing and resolving them where possible
- Develop an understanding of the relevant customer and market needs for your product, and consistently reflect these within the team
- Use domain modelling to design systems for maintainability, testability and incremental development, by understanding and describing entities and the relationships between them
- Provide data driven analysis, communicating the pros and cons, plus short- and long-term implications to make decisions in team
- Ensure that the product is compliant with all relevant regulations and standards, and managing any legal or ethical considerations relating to the product
- Continuously promote best product practises to foster new ways of working and ensure we deliver successful products
Skills, Knowledge And Expertise - Demonstrable experience in the management and ongoing development of an IT software product
- Embrace flexibility in requirements as you iterate and learn, whilst balancing the ability for the team to deliver value
- Eager to translate goals and needs into tangible work for your team, translate and convey complex information simply
- Comfortable communicating with stakeholders, facilitating ceremonies, and proactively managing divergent views to drive to an outcome
- Experience in lean and agile development, within customer-centric, data-informed, quality-obsessed, cross-functional delivery teams, and eager to coach Product team members in this area
- Ability to drive a culture of collaboration and user-centricity with a clear focus on our intended customer outcomes and achieve commercial targets
- Proficient at taking insights from analytics to inform next steps and presenting clear commercial data
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