The Product Manager owns and manages the research, development, launch and business success of assigned products, product components, or product features in the Wall Street English product portfolio.

The focus of this role is to understand the needs of our consumers, research the market and competition, and use data analysis to define the strategy and roadmap. The Product Manager acts as product owner on the agile development team, and works with UX, business, marketing and technology teams to deliver the roadmap and achieve success.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

Research and Analysis

• Develop a deep understanding of the adult learner market
• Articulate market requirements and opportunities
• Determine problem hypotheses to test with end consumer
• Coordinate & facilitate testing of problem hypotheses with end consumer to [in]validate assumptions
• Analyze data & identify opportunities for product innovation and product enhancements

Product Planning and Management

• Define the short & long-term strategy of the product and/or product component, and create product or product component roadmap and backlog of features & functions
• Continuously refine the product roadmap and backlog in response to validated learning from the consumer and early adopter testing
• Determine product specifications and articulate in personas and user stories
• Represent the consumer (learners, employees and partners) in product development teams
• Use market feedback to inform product refinements and ongoing development

Managing the backlog – With input from key stakeholders and the Head of Product, the Product Manager has the primary responsibility to prioritize, build, prune, and maintain the backlog, including:

• User stories
• Defects
• Refactoring, optimizing and management of the technical debt
• Input into the assessment of pre-backlog initiatives

Driving the iterations – Including, but not limited to:

• Participate, contribute and add value to the sprint planning meeting
• Participate, contribute and add value in Triage meetings
• Participate, contribute and add value to Release planning meetings
• Elaborating stories on a just-in-time basis with the team
• Ensuring that Acceptance Criteria are defined for each story
• Accepting stories into the backlog
• Accepting the sprint

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Previous product management or related experience
• Quantitative and business analysis skills
• Experience working with enterprise systems and platforms for online learning and assessment
• Experience working in dynamic Agile or Scaled Agile environments

Work Arrangement:

Hybrid (2 days in office/3 days work from home). The office is in the city center of Barcelona.

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