About the Role
BETWEEN Group is a multinational consulting firm in Engineering and ICT. Our services reach every continent and cover several sectors of the global economy, industry, and service companies. BETWEEN currently has a team of 1,000 people in the automotive, railway, retail, and other industries. We are expanding our team and looking for a Product Manager specializing in API products and API First, with extensive experience ensuring continuous delivery of software that brings business value, for a stable, permanent project with a technology team at one of our main clients.
Responsibilities
•Drive the product as far as possible and ensure that the team delivers value to the business.
•Manage and negotiate the roadmap with stakeholders of the product's own and requested initiatives.
•API product (API definition): ensure that its evolution can meet the product's current and future needs.
•Be the ultimate owner of the product backlog.
•Apply prioritization techniques and measure the impact of initiatives for negotiation.
•Communicate and agree on scope changes in the roadmap with stakeholders.
•Work alongside the development team to achieve the best solutions by conveying needs and resolving questions and blockers.
•Carry out strong discovery with stakeholders and users.
•Group different needs and experiences.
•Manage stakeholders, define the strategic roadmap, and write user stories with acceptance criteria.
•Communicate with stakeholders in all areas related to the product, including the development team, to ensure that goals are clear and the vision is aligned with strategic objectives.
•Help the team maintain that vision by creating a product roadmap, a strategic visual summary that describes the product's vision and direction over time.
•Work with management as a stakeholder to create a product that fits its strategic objectives.
•Define product metrics and their use during the development process.
•Stay up to date with the Agile / Scrum working environment.
Requirements
•Extensive experience with products built around APIs from scratch, extensive experience working with APIs: OpenAPI, Swagger, reading API contracts, checking backward compatibility, being accustomed to five different clients connecting to an API for different uses, reviewing how they use it, and making decisions to be efficient.
•Real hands-on experience defining a product from scratch (not being given what it had to do and simply transcribing it). In People, there are many entities to represent (absences, types of absences, etc.), as well as how they affect each country.
•Experience as a Product Manager or Product Owner.
•Experience with API products: defining an API as a product and familiarity with the API First approach.
•Experience in Agile / Scrum work environments.
•Experience making data-driven decisions.
•Experience negotiating with stakeholders and consumers.
•Experience working toward objectives and results.
•Very strong communication skills, clear and direct, and good negotiation skills.
•Previous experience working with Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).
Conditions
•A stable, permanent project.
•Be part of a young team in a tech community.
•Join a high-performing team with a high degree of specialization.
•Training with BTW University (languages, Power Business School, Udemy, technical certifications, Pharos, bootcamps, etc.).
•Free health insurance from the first day.
•The option to choose how to receive part of your salary through Flexible Compensation (restaurant vouchers, childcare).
•Access to a variety of discounts (travel, technology, and more).
•Reduced prices for wellness, fitness, and nutrition with WellHub.
•Being a Betweener comes with a birthday reward!
