As the demand for skilled product managers continues to grow in today’s competitive business landscape, it’s important for both employers and job seekers to have a clear understanding of what the role entails. A well-written product manager job description can serve as a valuable tool for attracting qualified candidates and setting expectations for the position’s responsibilities and requirements. In this article, we’ll provide several product manager job description samples that can be used as a starting point for creating a job posting that accurately reflects the needs of your organization.
Sample 1: Product Manager for HealthTech
Eight Medical is a healthcare company that connects emergency medical resources to users in need using technology to make urgent and emergency healthcare more affordable and accessible when and where it matters most; either in the field, at home, or hospital.Through an integrated approach, we are transforming the way people access healthcare, enabling anyone to receive care in minutes by leveraging a combination of people, partners, ambulances, and healthcare facilities. Eight Medical offers these healthcare solutions that create opportunities for sustainable jobs and welfare for healthcare and allied service workers in Africa and emerging markets.They are also backed by some of the world’s most prominent names and investors including Microsoft, GreenHouse Capital, Ventures platform & Catalyst fund.
About the role
Eight Medical is looking to hire a Product Manager to help them drive their growth efforts across Africa. You will be pivotal to finding and building viable partnership opportunities to drive their vision. You must be passionate about defining and aligning product offerings to meet business goals. Excellence in this role might require you to have a knack for building relationships with stakeholders in both the public and private sectors.
What do you need to do to be considered successful?
You will help create and drive the company’s growth strategy. You will be responsible;
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Develop market-level strategies to support new market entry, expansion, and business model design.
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Design and implement necessary analytics to measure and optimize growth opportunities.
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Execute partnerships with public sector partners across emerging markets.
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Pursue/create partnerships with public institutions.
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Identify innovative ways to grow our business, our impact, and our platforms.
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Develop and execute partnerships strategy for key company products.
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Work directly with the CEO to define, prioritize and pursue new partnership opportunities.
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Ensures all new product development activities are prioritized to deliver value and impact.
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Connect with internal and external stakeholders to expand the company’s vision.
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Attend conferences and events on behalf of the company.
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Develop business proposals, and organize execution for strategic patient capital.
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Perform other duties as assigned by the CEO.
How Important are you to the bottom line?
Your efficiency in this role and your ability to deliver on the requirements directly affect Eight Medical’s Growth, underperforming in this role denies a lot of people the essential solution provided by Eight Medical (take a breather, we’re sure you’d rock this role!!).
The Biggest problem-Solving Duties On the Job
You would have the awesome challenge of defining the narrative on the growth of Eight Medical and developing strategies to take on new markets with different approaches to meet local needs. You’d also be able to define the value and impact that Eight Medical offers through her product Offerings.
What do you need to have done in your career?
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Have an M.Sc. in Marketing and sales or Business Administration.
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4-5 years experience in a similar role.
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Experience in creating brand activation and awareness
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Experience working in a fast-paced and busy environment with competing demands on time and resources.
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Good networking, prospecting, and closing skills.
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High level of professionalism
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Result-oriented team player with exceptional motivation and interpersonal skills.
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Relationship management skills and receptive to feedback.
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Good written and verbal communication skills Must be able to prepare management reports and correspondence.
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Good initiative, time, and stress management skills.
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Have a deep desire to work in the startup industry.
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Tech Savvy and Familiar with current trends.
What do you stand to gain?
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The exciting opportunity to be part of building something extraordinary.
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The opportunity to build and grow something unique globally.
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Flexible working hours.
Sample 2: Lead Product Manager for a Logistics Startup
Jetstream’s vision is to build a thriving trade ecosystem for African businesses. Their mission is to leverage data and digitization to enable businesses to expand into new markets across Africa, profitably. With Jetstream’s digital rails, we aim to unlock unprecedented speed and cost savings in African trade corridors, while enabling African businesses to make better decisions about how and where to engage in global trade.
They work together as a team, with an obsessive commitment to the success of their customers
About the role
They are looking to hire a Lead Product Manager who will lead Jetstream’s day-to-day progress in developing industry-leading supply chain products that incorporate advanced freight tracking, IoT, and data analytics capabilities with a cutting-edge design specifically tailored to emerging economy users. With input from the Jetstream team and our enterprise users, you will lead full cycles of product development, from ideation, planning and design, to building, measuring, and iterating – all with the goal of transforming one of the oldest, and most important, “hidden” industries in the world — supply chain logistics — into a structured system that runs like clockwork. You will also be working with one of the most tech-savvy, energetic and collaborative teams in emerging market logistics today.
What do you need to be considered successful?
You will be responsible for managing the roadmap, pricing, packaging, and documentation of their product. You will also be responsible for the following:
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Working with customers, stakeholders, and Jetstream business and technical team members to research, define, and implement product iterations.
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Gathering requirements and preparing documentation, in the form of user stores,flowcharts, wireframes, etc. for product development.
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Evolving and communicating product vision and roadmaps to the full team; and
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Tracking key performance indicators, and regularly updating your colleagues andJetstream management on progress, milestones, and lessons learned.
How important are you to the bottom line?
As a Product Manager at Jetstream, you’ll be a cross-functional ninja interfacing across almost every function of the business (e.g. designers, engineers, marketing, etc) to conceptualize, build and maintain successful products that ultimately delight our users
Biggest problem-solving duties on the job
You will seamlessly weave between cross-functional teams in order to build and grow a wide range of products with a growth mindset while being able to communicate product vision to non-technical stakeholders.
What do you need to have done in your career?
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Four-year degree from an accredited university, top third of your class preferred.
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3-6 years of experience in the software industry as an engineer, designer, or manager.
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Demonstrated experience with Agile product processes and tools.
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Demonstrated leadership and people-management experience, especially with cross-functional and distributed teams.
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Consistent record of thought leadership and/or strong contributions to your local tech or design ecosystem (organizing hackathons, speaking at events, publishing articles).
Nice to Have
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Experience in the African logistics, global trade, or supply chain sectors
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Significant work experience in building and scaling up teams in a fast-paced environment, technology-enabled startups preferred
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Excellent business judgment and a results-oriented mindset
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Excellent strategic planning abilities, attention to detail, and delivery
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High emotional intelligence and exceptional communication skills, in oral and written English.
What do you stand to gain?
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A nearly unlimited room for career growth with support along the way
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The exciting opportunity to be part of building something extraordinary
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Competitive Salary
Sample 3: Product Manager for a Sports Company
Fanbants is creating the future of fantasy sports in Africa. Their vision is to build the most engaged community of African fans by fueling their love for competition. To accomplish this vision, they are building the ultimate fan rivalry destination.
About the role
They are looking to hire a Product Manager that has experience building and managing technical software products, loves experimenting with the best solutions for users, and feels a sense of accomplishment when they solve a problem; you should be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with lots of moving parts, pay attention to detail and take delight in learning about the fantasy sports landscape, new systems, processes, and technologies.
Their team is small but highly accomplished, so your voice will be heard and your ideas will make meaningful contributions to the business. This is a full-time role that is currently remote.
What do you need to be considered successful?
You will be responsible for managing the roadmap, pricing, packaging, and documentation of their product. You will also be responsible for the following:
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Create and own the roadmap; prioritize initiatives according to aggregate needs, with defensible reasoning that aligns stakeholders and energizes the design and engineering teams
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Translate product strategy into detailed requirements
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Align teams on a shared vision and steer the company toward the execution of that vision
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Drive the decision-making process across all the aspects of product development (strategy, planning, design, technology, launch, in-life optimization, etc.)
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Draw out feedback from our users on their experience with using our existing products
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Define, monitor, and analyze metrics to guide product improvements
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Monitor and communicate updates on product priorities to relevant stakeholders
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Document ideas and plans; be the face of the product working directly with partners and our users
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Drive progress across product initiatives by removing blockers from the team and going the extra mile to ensure that the product objectives are met
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Make several decisions daily on the best path to success for our product objectives
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Work closely with the engineering team to deliver with quick time to market and optimal resources
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Develop product pricing and positioning strategies
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Conduct competitive analysis of industry-leading fantasy sports products to enhance Fanbants product offerings
What it Takes to Succeed in the Role
You:
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Are a clear, concise, and empathetic communicator both verbally and in your writing
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Have a deep and unrelenting customer focus
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Thrive in a collaborative and fast-moving environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts
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Can turn incomplete, conflicting, or ambiguous inputs into solid, manageable tasks and action plans
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Do whatever it takes to make your product and team successful, no matter how big or small the issue may be, whether that means writing a QA plan or hunting down the root cause of a user’s frustration
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Are a creative product thinker who loves collaborating across the company with engineering, analytics, marketing, design, etc.
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Obsess continuous product improvement and can optimize for shipping a portfolio of small, medium, and large releases beyond just shipping new products
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Take an evidence-based and data-driven approach to making decisions
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Have excellent organization skills to ensure that your team is focused and operating efficiently
How important are you to the bottom line?
As a Product Manager at Fanbants, you’ll be a cross-functional ninja interfacing across almost every function of the business (e.g. designers, engineers, marketing, etc) to conceptualize, build and maintain successful products that ultimately delight our users
Biggest problem-solving duties on the job
You will seamlessly weave between cross-functional teams in order to build and grow a wide range of products with a growth mindset while being able to communicate product vision to non-technical stakeholders.
What do you need to have done in your career?
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A university degree
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Prior product management experience for a consumer-focused software product
While these are not requirements, it’ll be a plus if you have:
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Created or worked in a startup before
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Prior experience driving a cross-functional team
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A love of sports
What do you stand to gain?
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A nearly unlimited room for career growth with support along the way
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The exciting opportunity to be part of building something extraordinary
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Competitive Salary
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