The ideal candidate will be able to:

• Communicate effectively
  • With clarity
  • Be concise
  • Utilise storytelling
• Focus on what matters
  • Develop a competent understanding of your product domain
  • Be data-driven first & proactive in finding answers
  • Connect work to the impact on the business & users
  • Prioritise tasks to maximise outcomes (not output)
  • Ensure that your squad is working on the right things
• Set the example in your squad
  • Set a strong vision & get buy in – Not just be solving a series of problems continuously; but should be striving towards a vision of the future product
  • Take responsibility / ownership – No piece of work is off limits – if in doubt, it’s your responsibility
    Favour action over analysis paralysis (think like a startup, not a corporate)
• Always strive to improve:
  • Your technical aptitude
  • Your ways of working (ensuring you’re working efficiently / being proactive enough)
  • Your understanding of users & their problems
  • Your communication skills
• Be comfortable in the unknown
  • Be willing to ask what can we prove/disprove before starting – Asking what is the absolute MVP before investing lots of resources
  • Moving at pace requires you to not know everything at the beginning
  • Use research and data to build your case as you go
• Be a team player
  • Work towards a shared goal
  • You are enabling/lifting up your team members
  • Unblock team members

• Prioritise work – Define the product roadmap, groom the backlog, and stay aligned with goals
• Review product data – Analyse experiment data, track key metrics, identify insights, & validate hypotheses
• Write clearly – Create tickets/specs, briefs, strategy docs, and async updates
• Sync with your team – Run your squad’s stand-ups, cycle planning, retros, and check ins with designers & other stakeholders
• Unblock others – Make fast decisions, resolve ambiguity, & remove friction
• Communicate with stakeholders – Keep leadership and partners aligned on progress and tradeoffs, and product vision
• Think strategically – Set aside time for deep work, market analysis, competitive research
• Activate the team’s creativity – Run workshops, ideation sessions, or async brainstorms
• Talk to a user or observe behaviour (weekly/bi-weekly) – User interview, usability test, survey, reviews analysis, muzz social posts for feedback

Must-have

• 3+ years of product management experience or startup experience, ideally at a fast-paced consumer tech company
• Proven ability to ship products from 0 to 1 and improve existing ones through continuous iteration
• Experience working with cross-functional teams and rallying them around clear outcomes

Nice-to-have

• Experience building social, community, or event-based features in consumer apps
• Experience working on mobile-first products
• Comfort with tools like Linear, Coda, Thoughtspot & Figma
• Familiarity with SQL