Principal Product Manager

8 months ago


Sandton, South Africa Foolproof Full time

**Principal Product Manager**:
**Johannesburg (hybrid) - FTC**:
**We are looking for an experienced** **Principal** **Product Manager**:
A problem-oriented, strategic thinker who can help user-centric products and drive organizational product maturity.

**Key skills**:

- Expertise in product management methods and frameworks, and ability to provide thought leadership in communicating this understanding with others.
- Strong leadership, people skills, and excellent stakeholder management and negotiation.
- Understanding of how to successfully leverage analytics to inform product health and decision making, and ability to foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the organization.
- The creation and prioritisation of project/client roadmaps with the ability to lead complex projects from the discovery stage to launch of product.
- Proven ability to provide direction and strategy for clients, balancing the needs of the business and those of their customers.
- Strong strategic thinking and ability to drive organisational change and product maturity in an organisation.
- Commercially aware, with an understanding of what it takes to make change happen in large organisations.

**The role**:
Within this role you’ll be responsible for providing thought leadership and best practice approach to product management and problem solving.

You’ll be working as part of a cross-functional team, delivering guidance on a programme-level to refine and fulfil a client’s product strategy, whilst equipping and supporting product teams with the skills and know-how to successfully manage a product end-to-end, from understanding the problem space, refining product strategy and managing a backlog of problems/solutions to drive outcomes for our client’s business and their customers.

You will play a critical role in designing best-practice process and helping our clients operationalise and grow the practice of Product Management within their organisation.

**Our methodology**:

- Plan, design and execute a wide range of research methods such as stakeholder /customer interviews, diary studies, surveys, usability testing, contextual research.
- Advise clients and colleagues on how best to gather insight and data to drive decision making.
- Be a trusted advisor for our clients. Help grow and nurture long-term client relationships through a deep understanding of their business objectives, past projects and future ambitions.

**Who we are**:
We design, engineer and optimise products and services that improve the lives of millions of people all over the world. With studios in the UK, Singapore, India and South Africa, we operate globally.

We imagine, create and deliver products and services rooted in genuine user needs. We also partner with our parent company Zensar, a leading digital and technology solutions provider. Together, we execute digital transformation programmes for major brands.

We're welcoming new talent into the Foolproof fold and want to ensure it’s just as diverse as the world around us. That's why we want to hear from everyone regardless of background, identity or ability. Different perspectives make us who we are and our work a success.

**Our values**:


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