Kurtosys Systems is looking for a junior product manager to join its growing product team. The successful applicant will have exposure to business analysis, user experience design and have a passion for overcoming challenges
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Collaborate with Senior Product Manager to gather product requirements from stakeholders, including customer success, sales, and customers themselves.
- Analyse product feature functionality meets business needs and requirements.
- Develop functional specifications and document for consumption by developers.
- Design wireframe mock ups to illustrate UX concepts visually, whereafter collaboration with Senior Product Manager is done to enhance and finalise mock ups.
- Participate in customer calls to gather new requirements or detail about pain points.
- Analyse, research and identify solutions to internal and external problems (and pain points) on the platform.
- Participate in development lifecycle with engineers to ensure functionality delivered meets requirements.
- Drive QA process to ensure features meet desired level of quality.
- Develop training materials and train internal stakeholders on both the use of features and value proposition of functionality.
- Review and approve documentation prepared for the external facing help site, ensuring factual correctness
- Work with customer success to a) ensure functionality is being correctly used by customers and b) gather feedback on its success.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Business Analysis exposure
- Experience or Knowledge of formal requirements gathering and documentation process
OPTIONAL BUT DESIRED EXPERIENCE
- JIRA and Confluence
- Experience working in a SAAS environment
- Design and UX knowledge, or background as a designer
- Experience working with technical teams delivering features / projects
- Technical background (understanding of web services, various basic methodologies)
- Agile methodologies, using the Scrum Management Framework
Who are we?
Kurtosys is an innovative and thriving software-as-a-service company that provides digital visualisation and automation solutions to asset managers and financial institutions worldwide. Our user-friendly, end-to-end digital experience platform includes software to create, manage, publish and distribute financial data and other content via websites or documents, either self-managed or supported by an experienced and professional services team available across multiple time-zones. We’re a team of passionate and driven individuals living and working remotely across 3 countries and continents: UK, South Africa, and the USA with close to 200 employees. We may move back to a hybrid model in future with our biggest office in Claremont, South Africa. As a Brand and Product Marketing Manager, you will work with colleagues and stakeholders in multiple geographies.
Why join us?
We’re on a mission to transform the way the Asset Management Industry uses and distributes data and information through dynamic, innovative technology. We are performance driven, we reward high performers and are fanatical about delivering quality service to our clients. We are dedicated and focus on continuous improvement. We have a solid work-life balance culture with consistent staff development, remote social activities and mentorship events throughout the week. Events and activities are designed to keep our global staff interacting and making connections with others.
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Only candidates currently based in South Africa need apply. Valid SA citizenship or permanent residence are preferable, and visa applicants will only be considered under exceptional circumstances.
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Kurtosys is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. All employment is decided based on relevant experience, qualifications, merit, and business need._
Job Type: Full-time