When you join Kainos, you get to think beyond limitations to make an immediate and positive impact – like transforming digital services for millions of citizens or helping Fortune 500 companies get live and thrive on Workday.You’ll be part of a people-first culture that is growing around the world. We’re a creative, committed, and diverse group of individuals who succeed as a team.At Kainos your ideas are heard and valued and you’ll leave a legacy that you can feel proud of. Join us and discover how our people write our story.
As a Product Manager at Kainos, you will be responsible for increasing the profitability of existing products to developing new products for the company. You will build products from existing ideas, and help to develop new ideas based on your industry experience and your contact with customers and prospects. You must possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy; a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality. You must enjoy spending time in the market to understand their problems, and find innovative solutions for the broader market.
You must be able to communicate with all areas of the Workday business unit. You will work with business analysts from the development team to define release requirements.
You will work with product marketing to define the go-to-market strategy, helping them understand the product positioning, key benefits, and target customer. You will also serve as the internal and external evangelist for your product offering, occasionally working with the sales channel and key customers.
You will be responsible for:
• The Kainos Product Roadmap across multiple functional areas, which will include:
o Analysis of market needs
o Building solutions to address market problems
o Pricing of feature add-on and/or new product modules
o Launching features and modules with the support of the product marketing team
• Capturing and articulating requirements from the market:
o Prospects
o Existing Customers;
o Smart Sales Team
o Professional Services teams;
o Internal Subject Matter Experts.
• Sustaining relationships with technology partners;
• Demonstrating a clear understanding of release acceptance criteria for each product feature, including the criteria for the minimal viable product.
• Working closely with business analysts product development leads/architects to advance functional and non-functional aspects of the product
• Identifying and measuring the success criteria for each delivered feature.
• Running beta and early adopter programs with customers/development partners
MINIMUM (ESSENTIAL) REQUIREMENTS:
• Have previous experience as a SaaS product owner in an Agile software development environment
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience working on, analysing, building, marketing, pricing and launching software products.
• Relevant commercial experience.
• Have experience running beta and early adopter programs with customers/development partners
• Previous experience as a product owner in an Agile software development environment.
• A proven track record of working closely with business analysts product development leads/architects to advance functional and non-functional aspects of the product.
• Experience running beta and early adopter programs with customers/development partners.
• Excellent communication skills are vital. You’ll need to be a persuasive and effective communicator with strong negotiating skills. It’s not only about talking, you’ll need to be able to listen, understand, and build on other’s viewpoints.
• You will need an eye for detail, particularly to interpret supplied information and understand sources and challenge where necessary.
• The ability to facilitate team meetings and group conversations.
• A good understanding of technology, digital services and trends.
• Good commercial awareness.
• The ability to communicate effectively with the team and external stakeholders.
• Flexibility to travel regularly to customer and partner locations worldwide
DESIRABLE:
• Experience with Automated Testing Frameworks
• Software Testing Experience
PEOPLE MANAGEMENT:
Your role will include managing people with your responsibilities to include:
• Agreeing, setting and reviewing your and your team’s goals aligned to Kainos,
Workday practice and your Capability
• Providing support so that your and your team’s goals can be achieved
• Reviewing and refining goals for relevance and to keep performance on track
• Reviewing performance against goals and provide feedback
• Conducting 1:1 monthly and/or project completion feedback meetings
• Requesting and providing regular feedback in Workday
• Completing End of Year reviews and agreeing the outcomes for the year
• Identifying training to support your and your team’s development
• Pursuing and supporting you and your team members’ career paths and
progression
• Reviewing weekly workload forecasting (staff allocations and timesheet checks)
and utilisation
• Actively being involved in recruitment/interviews
• Reviewing attrition and retention metrics
ABOUT KAINOS SMART: Our cloud-based automated testing tool, Kainos Smart, is one of a kind. It is the only product that has been built exclusively for testing Workday. It is designed to make automated Workday testing easy for all users regardless of technical or testing background. With Smart you can quickly create repeatable tests covering Workday business processes, security configuration and integrations. Using Smart, our clients are saving thousands of man hours on testing and gaining much greater assurance on the correctness of their Workday deployment.
So what are you waiting for? Let’s write the next incredible chapter of our story together.
Embracing our differences
At Kainos, we believe in the power of diversity, equity and inclusion. We are committed to building a team that is as diverse as the world we live in, where everyone is valued, respected, and given an equal chance to thrive. We actively seek out talented people from all backgrounds, regardless of age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability, or any other characteristic that makes them who they are. We also believe every candidate deserves a level playing field. Our friendly talent acquisition team is here to support you every step of the way, so if you require any accommodations or adjustments, we encourage you to reach out. We understand that everyone's journey is different, and by having a private conversation we can ensure that our recruitment process is tailored to your needs.
What We Do
At Kainos we use technology to solve real problems for our customers, overcome big challenges for businesses, and make people’s lives easier.
We build strong relationships with our customers and go beyond to change the way they work today and the impact they have tomorrow.
Our two specialist business areas, Digital Services and the Workday Practice, work globally for clients across healthcare, commercial and the public sector to make the world a little bit better, day by day.
