Product Discovery Manager [PDD]

Key Skills and Competencies:

Product Development & Strategy

• Assist in end-to-end digital product development, with focus on experimentation and innovation
• Conduct comprehensive user research and competitive analysis to identify opportunities for innovation
• Implement experimental frameworks to validate product hypotheses
• Some experience in business case development
• Hands-on experience with rapid prototyping, proof-of-concept development, and implementation

Analytical and Experimental Design

• Design and implement experiments to validate product hypotheses and explore innovative solutions
• Establish and work with product analyst to track key success metrics for experiment and product performance
• Ability to break down complex challenges into testable hypotheses
• Possess strong analytical mindset and synthesise customer feedback to assess experimental results and optimize performance

Agile Delivery Excellence

• Understand agile methodologies and the nature of iterative development
• Experienced in working within fast-paced, cross-functional teams, and open to negotiation and constructive feedback
• Ability to prioritize experiments based on business impact and feasibility

Stakeholder Management & Communication

• Support the development of compelling business cases for experimental initiatives for securing of resources
• Support cross-functional collaboration efforts in product conceptualisation, experimentation and execution
• Manage stakeholder relationships and expectations
• Ability to present experimental ideas and results to diverse internal and external audiences
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for documenting and sharing experimental outcomes

Responsibilities:

• Carry out product experiments to assess proof of concept and proof of value
• Assist the Senior Product Owner on end-to-end experimental product development, from concept testing to implementation, and open to pivoting the experiments to meet user and testing requirements
• Evaluate market trends and user needs to identify opportunities for innovation, keeping an eye on the experimental landscape to observe how developments in career guidance are progressing
• Ability to articulate and present business cases to different stakeholders to justify project rationale and funding
• Track experiment success metrics to measure OKR outcomes and impact
• Provide regular proactive updates to senior management on experiment outcomes and learnings

All applicants will be notified on whether they are shortlisted or not within 4 weeks of the closing date of this job posting.