Product Lead
São Paulo-SP, Brazil or Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil
Who We Are
In 2021, Poatek was acquired by WillowTree, an award-winning digital product consultancy recognized as one of the fastest-growing and best places to work in the United States. Now a TELUS International company, with offices across the globe, we continue to partner with the world’s leading brands, such as HBO, PepsiCo, Domino’s, and more, to design, build, and transform their digital products and strategies. We’re looking to grow our Poatek offices in Brazil with top talent excited to collaborate with team members across the globe to deliver innovative solutions for our clients.
Location and Flexibility
You’ll work on-site from our São Paulo or Porto Alegre office three days a week and have the flexibility to work remotely two days a week. Our office culture is designed to foster in-person innovation, collaboration, and connection with team members local and visiting from other global offices.
The Opportunity
As a Product Lead, you’ll play a central role in defining and delivering world-class products. The Product Lead uncovers the “why” and works closely with engineering teams to successfully bring our partner’s visions to life. You’ll follow products through implementation, managing requirements, and working with design, development teams, and clients to keep development aligned with product goals.
We understand our responsibility to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive place within the tech industry while pushing to make our industry more representative. Because of this responsibility, we need candidates who value diversity and inclusion through their work, team collaboration, or mentorship. So in your cover letter, we encourage you to reflect on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Responsibilities
- Build strong client relationships and help them define product vision and strategy
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to iteratively define and build solutions that meet the needs of the end-user and business
- Elicit requirements from stakeholders and create user stories and acceptance criteria for the engineering team
- Manage complex requirement backlogs that consider multiple platforms
- Build a shared understanding of product requirements among all stakeholders (internal and external)
- Collaborate with product designers to create best-in-class user experiences that are feasible and within technical constraints
- Contribute to a strategic product roadmap that considers business value, technical lift, dependencies, and time and budget constraints
- Facilitate conversations around scope management and feature prioritization
- Work alongside engineers to define system architecture and data flows to guide feature development
- Manage and document technical dependencies and API needs
Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in the software development industry as a Product Owner, Product Manager, Technical Business Analyst, Requirements Manager, or related position
- Experience working with stakeholders to elicit and define requirements for at least one of the following platforms: iOS, Android, Web
- Strong documentation and technical writing skills, with familiarity working with user stories, acceptance criteria, flow diagrams, user personas, API documentation, and other requirements documentation methods
- Proven ability to develop and champion a product vision and to keep teams focused on high-priority work while avoiding gold-plating or scope creep
- Ability to communicate clearly, confidently, and tactfully and to simplify technical concepts for non-technical audiences
- Knowledge of frontend and backend technologies (i.e. web/native apps, APIs, databases) and the risks and constraints of different technologies
- Excellent user experience intuition and ability to develop empathy for users of your product
- Self-starter who takes initiative in solving problems and can self-manage commitments and deadlines
Even if you don’t have expertise in all of the qualifications listed, we value new perspectives and backgrounds and encourage you to apply. We’re committed to building a diverse company that reflects the diversity of our users. We’re committed to a growth mindset.
Bonus Points
- Agency and/or consulting experience with a variety of clients and industries
- An understanding of the differences in capabilities across iOS, Android, Web, and TV platforms
- Experience with product research and strategy
- Applicable certifications, such as Certified ScrumMaster, Certified Scrum Product Owner, Leading SAFe, SAFe POPM, Pragmatic Product certification, etc.
- In-depth software development knowledge with programming or QA testing experience
Why Poatek?
What We Offer:
- Be part of an innovative consultancy with a human-centered culture with opportunities for ownership and professional growth
- Competitive salary and benefits package (annual bonus)
- Opportunity to work on innovative agile projects with other high-performing, passionate team members from all over the globe (international travel opportunities)
- Collaborative work environment that encourages continuous learning and professional development (including English classes, support in national and international courses,
- Flexible work hours and autonomy
- Voucher for health activities, food allowance, in-office snacks, drinks, and games
If you love IT as much as we do, we look forward to meeting you!
Equality is a principle here at Poatek. We are committed to building an inclusive team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. Therefore we provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants regardless of race, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, or disability.
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