Junior Product Manager (For independent contractors)

A Junior Product Manager assists Product Managers in working across a single team and on occasion leading on feature development. A Junior Product Manager participates in the day-tday management of the team but may not be the sole driver of a feature or product.A Junior Product Manager helps to identify business and customer needs and deliver features for products with a well understood value proposition. Partnering with a PM or EM and working with the team to understand the best ways to approach building solutions to problems.

A Junior Product Manager contributes to scoping and delivering features for a product. In an optimization-setting, this might mean achieving incremental performance of a feature they have helped to launch. In an NPD-setting this might mean shadowing a Product Manager to validate (new) concepts that lead to relevant and meaningful business decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Strategy

  
  

• Understands the broader product strategy their work falls under, and is able to explain the strategy to their team and other stakeholders

  
  

• Sets the vision for their feature/product over the next year.

  
  

• Product Delivery

  
  

• Identifies and prioritises new tasks to be added to achieve short- and mid-term team objectives.

  
  

• Partners with PM or SPM on longer-term direction setting.

  
  

• Data Fluency

  
  

• Understands mechanics of important customer or system events in their product

  
  

• Understands both quantitative and qualitative data and respective usage

  
  

• Customer Insight

  
  

• Familiar with multiple techniques to better understand customer behaviour, such as interviews and surveys

  
  

• Knows how to gather customer needs and pain points and has experimented with techniques such as story mapping or use case design

  
  

• Stakeholder Management

  
  

• Identifies other teams and key stakeholders impacted by the current project.

  
  

• Gathers stakeholders' key requirements and works with their manager to integrate the feedback.

  
  

• Tech Fluency

  
  

• Partners with Engineering Manager.

  
  

• Understands which technical solutions are used to deliver the product.

  
  

• Advocates for the customer and business in engineering tradeoff decisions.

  
  

• Actively learns the technical side of their work.

  
  

• Community Impact

  
  

• Attends craft community events inside their Track, and is encouraged to attend craft community events outside of their Track.

  
  

Communication Stakeholder

Product Team

Product Track

Product Community

Internal Stakeholders

Communication Type

• Cooperation - Steering the team and managing the ROI

  
  

• Cooperation - Providing input and steering of track strategy in the context of the larger business unit strategy

  
  

• Cooperation - Actively participates in craft community outside own track

  
  

• Cooperation - Manages stakeholders across the organization at all levels (shares information in the right medium at the right time). To identify user needs and to ensure their interests are included in the release, as well as the team to ensure the release is developed by the deadline and within the budget

Level of Education

Bachelor degree

Years of relevant Job Knowledge

Basic Job Knowledge (1 - 3 years)

Years of relevant Job Knowledge

1-3 years in craft, or other transferable discipline (e.g. engineering or design, occasionally commercial / sales / marketing)