Product Manager

7 months ago

Claremont, South Africa Kurtosys Full time

**ABOUT US**:
Kurtosys provides asset and wealth managers with a data and content publication platform that enables the construction and distribution of critical sales, marketing, and client reporting materials. Founded in 2002, Kurtosys operates across four global offices. Underpinned by global ISO-27001 certification in information security management, the Kurtosys team has a deep understanding of working at scale with data, information design, industry regulations and compliance issues.

**THE OPPORTUNITY**:
We are seeking a well-rounded, Product Manager. The Product Manager will lead the execution against our strategic roadmap and ensure we continue to build solutions that keep us in the state-of-the-art quadrant.

The Product Manager will draw on a variety of problem-solving abilities and technical skills, working closely with the customers as well as the internal development team in order to build solutions that solve key problems and are valuable for our clients.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**:
Product Discovery
- Collaborate with clients and the market to identify problems, needs and pain points.
- Work with engineers and designers to assess product value, usability, technical feasibility and viability.
- Draw up designs and workflows to illustrate new concepts and potential new features for review with stakeholders.

Product Roadmap
- Managing the product roadmap.
- Ensure product priorities are executed in line with our product strategy.
- Report and present product progress against the roadmap to internal and external stakeholders.

Product Delivery
- Document clear functional specifications for product solutions
- Lead backlog refinement to ensure all team members understand the work required.
- Lead sprint planning to ensure current and future deliverables align with product priorities.
- Ensuring timely and accurate flows of information between all stakeholders.
- Facilitate agile software delivery.

Other
- Product team members may report into you. You are expected to engage in weekly 1x1’s, quarterly reviews, define work priorities and lead their career development.
- 1x1s with key management members to ensure priorities and professional relationships between teams remain efficient and effective in order to deliver value to our clients.
- Active participant of the South African Leadership team

**SKILLS**:

- Excellent communication (verbal, written and interpersonal) and presentation skills.
- Self-motivated and highly driven to continuously learn, adapt and improve yourself and your team.
- Familiarity with a requirements management system such as JIRA.
- A strong ability to perform requirements analysis and documentation.
- The ability to confidently push back on out-of-scope, unreasonable or irrelevant requirements and communicating / justifying your reasoning.
- The ability to design a website solution using wire-framing tools, showcasing an understanding of web elements, components and modules.
- An understanding of the software development life cycle and Agile techniques.
- A proven capacity to configure technical solutions (data visualization, data structuring, etc.).
- Experience in design using tools such as InDesign and Figma.
- A background in asset management or detailed knowledge of the industry.
- An understanding of development tools and technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
- Experience in working with database technologies such as SQL Server or MySQL as well as RESTful APIs (XML/JSON).

**BENEFITS**:

- No Dress Code
- Open Culture
- Flexible Work Hours
- Group Risk Cover
- Employee Wellbeing Program
- 20 Days Paid Leave
- Ongoing Staff Appreciation Events
- Access To Learning Platforms
- Working With Experts Across the Globe
- Home Internet Allowance

**FINAL THOUGHTS**:

- We are an international SaaS based fintech company.
- We work with up-to-date technology, promote from within wherever possible, and encourage our team members to use initiative, think out the box and share their ideas.
- We aim to transform how our customers - which includes the world's most prestigious financial services firms - drive engagement with their audiences.
- Our aim is to give our customers the ability to target, knowledge share and nurture their community of prospects and clients to develop long standing relationships.

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