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We are looking for a passionate, creative, hard-working, and capable individual to join us for the role of a Jr. Product Manager (AutoTech) based in Manila, Philippines. This role will be a contract position for a preferred duration of 12 months. This position will report to the Product Manager located in Singapore. You will work with experienced product leads and designers, who will mentor and engage you as required in conceptualizing, designing, and developing exciting new products. You will have regular contact with the full breadth of the diverse TVS Digital team, including technical / non-technical team members, partners, and clients, to understand their expectations and requirements and then shape the delivery to meet them. 

You must develop a solid understanding of our products, development processes, and capabilities. You will have the aptitude to manage and contribute to multiple workstreams while being outcome-oriented. Experience in a similar role or background would be beneficial but optional. We seek aptitude, enthusiasm, resourcefulness, and a strong desire to learn and contribute to a start-up environment. 

This role requires a proactive, highly motivated individual with an aptitude for customer focus and critical thinking. You will be expected to take ownership and drive positive results within the product portfolio. The successful candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, analytical, detail-oriented, and can work well with cross-functional teams. 

A Product Manager oversees the development of products from start to finish to ensure they meet client's needs and preferences. Their primary duties include determining the overall vision of products, managing various backlog items, and deciding which features each product will have according to the client’s preferences. 

What Does a Product Manager Do? 

Product Managers are members of the Product Leadership team who manage an organization's entire product development process. They research the client’s needs to determine which features to include in products and pitch ideas for product features to stakeholders. They are the primary contact between the scrum teams, product development departments, and stakeholders. They’ll collaborate closely with the scrum and product development departments to ensure the products meet specific objectives outlined by stakeholders and clients. After product completion, the Product Manager will conduct a final review and submit approval before releasing the product to clients. 

1. Defining the vision 

The agile product Manager is the point person on the product development team. They use their high-level perspective to define goals and create a vision for development projects. 

Product Managers communicate with stakeholders, including customers, business managers, and the development team, to ensure the goals and vision align with business objectives. 

A Product Manager with a higher perspective ensures that the team maintains a cohesive vision despite agile product development's flexible and often fast-paced nature. Everyone must be on the same page for a project to work effectively. 

A Product Manager can help the team maintain that vision by creating a product roadmap. The product roadmap is a high-level, strategic visual summary that outlines the vision and direction for the product offering over time. It is a strategic guide for stakeholders to reference and an execution plan. 

2. Managing the product backlog 

One of the most critical responsibilities of a scrum Product Manager is managing the product backlog. This is the development team’s project to-do list. 

The Product Manager is responsible for creating the list of backlog items and prioritizing them based on the overall strategy and business objectives. The Product Manager must also map out project dependencies to inform the necessary development sequence. 

The product backlog isn’t a static to-do list, though. It is a live document that should be continually updated based on evolving project needs throughout development. 

Because the product backlog will change frequently, the Product Manager must make a list accessible and available to all stakeholders (mainly developers) to ensure optimized performance and project outcomes. 

3. Prioritizing needs 

Another critical role of the Product Manager is to prioritize needs. In other words, they must juggle the scope, budget, and time triangle, weighing priorities according to stakeholders' needs and objectives. 

For example, if the product under development needs to launch within six months, that constrains the project's scope. As the project evolves, the Product Manager must gauge which areas have flexibility and which don’t to determine how and when each iteration and product element will be developed. 

4. Overseeing development stages 

With the vision, strategy, and product priorities set, the Product Manager should spend a significant amount of time overseeing the actual development of the product. They are vital throughout each event, including planning, refinement, review, and sprint. 

During the planning stages, the agile Product Manager works with stakeholders to identify and organize the steps required for the next iteration. They will then meet with their team to refine the process, identify areas for improvement, and support the sprint. 

5. Anticipating client needs 

The successful scrum Product Manager will be an expert at understanding and anticipating the client’s needs to manage the development process more effectively. 

Their deep market knowledge and communication skills allow them to anticipate and address problems or needs. 

Stay one step ahead of your clients with customer journey mapping. These visuals create a shared vision for the customer experience. You'll save time and effort, so you can put all your energy into reading and wowing your customers' minds. 

6. Acting as primary liaison 

The Product Manager is the primary communicator and link between stakeholders and teams. As such, they must be expert communicators, ensuring stakeholders' buy-in on all significant decisions and strategies and clear instructions and deliverables for the developers. 

7. Evaluating product progress at each iteration 

The Product Manager is accountable for each stage of the development process and the final product. They take a primary role in inspecting and evaluating product progress through each iteration. The Product Manager makes the judgment call on the performance, deciding if the team needs to go back to the drawing board or if they can move on to the next steps. 

Agile Product Managers wear many hats. So, they need tools and solutions that can adapt to their changing roles as quickly as they do. 

Visuals can assist your scrum team through every step of the development process, making it easy to the transition from outlining the customer journey and mocking up product designs to mapping product dependencies and sharing your work with stakeholders. 

Product Manager Duties and Responsibilities 

• Passion for customers 
• As part of their role on a product team, a successful Product Manager should fulfill the following duties and responsibilities: 
• Collaborating with prospective users and clients to understand and anticipate their needs and translate them into product requirements 
• Defining the vision for the team’s product 
• Creating a product roadmap based on this vision 
• Managing the product backlog and prioritizing them based on changing requirements 
• Overseeing all stages of product creation, including design and development 
• Helping the Design team develop user stories 
• Monitoring and evaluating product progress at each stage of the process 
• Liaising with the product team and end-users to deliver updates 
• Participating in Scrum meetings and product sprints 
• Drive the vision and delivery of new products and features for existing products
• Conduct market and customer research to identify potential features or enhancements
• Be the voice of customers and ensure a high-quality customer experience
• Own the product roadmap, prioritize opportunities, refine feature ideas, and maintain existing features based on data and customer feedback
• Produce high-level product requirements and engage in regular iteration with our customer success, data, and engineering teams 
• Coordinate go-to-market strategies when launching a new product or feature
• Work closely with all stakeholders to ensure successful end-to-end delivery of products 
• Keep up with cutting-edge and emerging technologies relevant to the Autotech domain
• User Acceptance criteria development 

Description of Day-to-Day Duties 

• Supported and led the end-to-end ideation, conceptualization, design, and implementation process
• Detailing requirements, workflows, and writing user stories
• Support the product and design team in maintaining the feature backlog and roadmap
• Support product and feature test development and test case execution
• Carrying out user and market research to define new and improved features within the product portfolio 
• Supporting the marketing and demand generation for products
• Be responsible for the timely delivery of features or relevant tasks 
• Well-organized and meticulous day-to-day management of critical tasks, reprioritizing and overseeing stakeholders' requirements
• Work with the development and data team to define, test, and release our new products and features
• Active client support as required for product testing, PoC implementation, and product growth
• Periodic reporting on progress, timelines, risks, and critical dependencies
• Participate in daily stand-up and product Solutions meetings, supporting key Customers’ and clients’ Presentation Preparation and Management Review Meetings
• Be the voice of the customers

An experienced Product Manager should have worked in the role for at least three to five years or a similar one, such as product management. They should also have a good knowledge of software development and other relevant web technologies and be familiar with agile processes. An experienced Product Manager must have proven hands-on experience managing all product life cycle stages. They should be able to stick to timelines and measure progress during development.  

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other related fields
• Proven ability to coordinate, plan, execute, and project manage from beginning to end
• Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to think outside the box and roll up one’s sleeves to finish the job
• We are taking individual leadership and showing strong ownership of key deliverables
• Self-starter, able to work and thrive in a fast-paced and hands-on environment
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Curiosity and learning-oriented mindset for financial solutions and technologies
• Collaborative mentality and solid team player
• MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills are essential

Plus Points

• Previous experience in Automotive (but not must) product management and marketing roles
• Exposure to Design Thinking, Agile process, and tools & methodologies 

TVS Digital is a digital technology start-up headquartered in Singapore focused on the Automotive and Fintech industries with portfolios and offerings in the Connected Factory, Credit Services and Fleet Management domain. TVS Digital’s mission is to build & deliver high quality software solutions to help address real life business challenges of global companies in these domains by harnessing the power of Analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Augmented Reality (AR), Internet of Things (IoT), Machine Learning (ML) and Virtual reality (VR). Our strategy is to leverage inorganic and organic means for the initial build out and subsequent expansion and growth. TVS Digital represents the digital business arm of TVS Motor company Limited and has currently invested in several early stage High tech start-ups globally in areas of connected manufacturing, fleet management and credit services. TVS Digital aims to build a platform team to deliver on this mission and we are looking for energetic, innovative & diverse talent based in Singapore and India.