Product Development Manager

Job Description

Product Development Manager

We are seeking a highly skilled Product Development Manager who represents Agile Leadership principles and practices. This role requires a strong technical background combined with exceptional leadership skills. The role is expected to lead team members and managers; drive product development excellence, and enable teams to adopt modern engineering practices, including AI-enabled ways of working.
 

Experience level: 15+ Years

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop cross-functional engineering teams in delivering high-quality software products
• Lead and coach scrum masters, team leads, ensuring effective leadership practices, accountability, and consistent execution across teams
• Drive technical decision-making and architecture design for complex systems
• Collaborate with product owners to translate business requirements into technical specifications
• Implement and optimize development processes to improve efficiency and product quality
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted software development practices, including responsible use of AI tools for coding, testing, documentation, analysis, and productivity improvement
• Ensure AI usage follows company policies, security, compliance, data privacy, and ethical guidelines
• Manage the entire product lifecycle, from conception to deployment and maintenance
• Attract, recruit, induct, and retain capable technical personnel and managers
• Evaluate performance, provide guidance and corrective actions
• Participate in defining and administering compensation, benefits, and promotions
• Perform career coaching and personal development for team members, managers, and future leaders
• Set priorities across teams to ensure task completion, alignment, and project success
• Support teams and managers in problem identification, root cause analysis, and decision-making
• Eliminate technical and organizational impediments to team productivity
• Manage full financial responsibility for own profit unit
• Establish short- and mid-term technical plans in cooperation with the management team
• Participate in product strategy creation and communicate targets clearly across teams
• Foster an environment that supports cooperation among work teams and with other areas of the organization
• Balance hands-on technical involvement with empowering managers and teams to problem-solve independently
• Act as a role model for company values, Lean-Agile Leadership, technical excellence, and continuous learning • Handle products in the maintenance phase, including managing client escalations, critical issues/tickets, and urgent fixes • Effectively collaborate with product owners, onsite teams/leaders, managers, and technical support personnel • Establish and follow Agile ways of working, ensuring continuous improvement of development processes • Build a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, accountability, and responsible AI adoption