Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kainos is a company focused on creating real impact through innovation and collaboration. They are seeking a Principal Product Consultant to lead significant engagements from concept to delivery, shape product strategies, and manage a small team while ensuring high performance and user-centered product development.
Responsibilities
- Leading and assuring significant engagements from concept through to delivery
- Shaping product strategies and business cases
- Managing, coaching and developing a small number of senior staff, with a focus on managing employee performance
- Delivering as part of an agile team
- Planning and leading consulting engagements from initiation through to completion
Skills
- Extensive vertical knowledge of Product Management, coupled with strong knowledge of User Experience, Agile and Programme Assurance disciplines
- In depth experience of at least two major business verticals (e.g. Telco, Financial Services, Retail)
- Experience of at least two business application environments (e.g. CRM, eCommerce etc.)
- Experience of strong C-Level stakeholder communication and relationship building, including coaching and mentoring of clients to raise awareness of product management
- Broad business and technology understanding and a good awareness of industry trends
- Demonstrable experience of delivering as part of an agile team
- Experience of line management or coaching
- Expert facilitator: able to drive focused outcomes from large gatherings of diverse stakeholders and interest groups
- Able to plan and lead consulting engagements from initiation through to completion
- Excellent commercial awareness and sound understanding of business and project dynamics
- Demonstrated adaptability to embrace and lead in new disciplines
- Excellent communicator: able to explain, persuade and justify decisions
- Highly effective at translating business requirements into cost-effective functional requirements
- Good commercial awareness, always delivering within project constraints
- A strong understanding of Agile and Waterfall Project Management delivery methodologies
- Able to work flexibly and to tight deadlines within uncertain and fast-changing environments
- We all work in teams here in Kainos – a proven ability of strong team management skills, including effectively managing a multi-disciplinary team is crucial
- We are passionate about developing people – a demonstrated ability in managing, mentoring and coaching members of your team and wider community is important
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate with a variety of stakeholders
- Experience of working in a digital start up
- Experience of working as a product manager and delivering high quality digital products
- Experience of working in a full-service digital agency environment
- Experience leading Digital Transformation initiatives
- Project management experience across a range of methodologies and frameworks (e.g. waterfall, scrum, Kanban, PRINCE2, MSP etc.)
- Certified Scrum Product Owner
- Active participant in communities of interest (e.g. online groups, speaking at conferences etc.)
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