Showing posts with label product. Show all posts
Showing posts with label product. Show all posts

August 30, 2013

Product Developer - Sociatag - Lebanon

Sociatag are recruiting a Product Developer.

- Mechanical/Mechatronics or Electrical and/or computer engineer.
- 0/2 years experience in electronics and instrumentation

The candidate is responsible of the development of an electronic product. This includes, but is not limited to implementing new hardware on the circuit along with programming different types of microcontrollers.

The candidate should be knowledgeable with different types of sensors, analog or digital, and should be able to analyze readings and process them as required with microcontrollers.

In addition, the candidate will be part of the R&D process, and should be able to give creative solutions inspired by research and taking into consideration cost and expected complications.

Moderate to advanced electric circuit and basic communication knowledge is required. PCB design experience is a plus.

info@sociatag.com

May 31, 2013

Product Developer - Sociatag - Lebanon

Mechanical/Mechatronics or Electrical and/or computer engineer.

Experience: 0-2 years in electronics and instrumentation

The candidate is responsible of the development of an electronic product. This includes, but is not limited to implementing new hardware on the circuit along with programming different types of microcontrollers.

The candidate should be knowledgeable with different types of sensors, analog or digital, and should be able to analyze readings and process them as required with microcontrollers.

In addition, the candidate will be part of the R&D process, and should be able to give creative solutions inspired by research and taking into consideration cost and expected complications.

Moderate to advanced electric circuit and basic communication knowledge is required. PCB design experience is a plus.

info@sociatag.com

April 19, 2012

Business Analyst/Scrum Product Owner - Bsynchro - Lebanon

Bsynchro are seeking a Business Analyst/Scrum Product Owner to facilitate the creation of software product requirements, user stories, scope, requirements tractability, and test cases for the development of new .NET based applications.

Candidate will represent client requirements and will use best practice Agile/Scrum methods to capture requirements in user stories and facilitate sessions with developers to define the solutions strategies, and work with QA in managing requirements traceability.

Requirements
- 3+ years’ experience in:
- Business user interviewing and facilitation of capturing user stories
- Business procedure analysis and documentation
- Requirements and Acceptance Criteria documentation
- Sprint scope definition and management
- Client management and customer communication
- Management reports definition and creation
- Product management experience
- Team management and Team Building
- Managing multiple backlogs of user stories
- Delivering successfully software projects (references of projects will need to be provided)

Additional Requirements
- Ability to interview business subject matter experts and clients to capture requirements and product feedback.
- Ability to quickly analyze, learn, and document new business processes and concepts
- Must be responsible for the success of the project the team delivers
- Must provide the vision about the product for the team
- Works well with executives to take big picture vision and with operations staff on detail oriented test cases.
- Able to represent Business Product owner in design and testing meetings.
- Continuously make decisions on the product priorities
- Ability to communicate effectively with technical personnel
- The ability to communicate effectively on all levels. This job requires that the person be a talented communicator
- Has to keep the financial situation of the project under close scrutiny
- Apply collaborative and continuous improvement concepts to software development
- Emphasize close collaboration between development teams and customers.
- Emphasize frequent delivery of deploy-able code (in sprints).
- Emphasize face-to-face communication
- Maintaining all requests, requirements, sprint plans, test cases, and bugs in Agile/Scrum tracking software.
- Must be able to change priorities easily, work on multiple tasks simultaneously, strive to meet timelines, make adjustments when necessary and work well under pressure as product goes through development process

Skills
Analytical
- Analytical and conceptual expertise
- Planning, documentation, analysis and business requirements management techniques
- Object-oriented analysis
- Evaluation of profitability/risk
- Testing, verification and validation techniques
- Administrative and reporting abilities
- Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving skills
Business
- Knowledge of business processes
- Ability to have a business-oriented vision
- Improvement of business and engineering processes
- Case development
- Business writing
Management
- Decision-making
- Fundamentals of project management
- Management of customer relationships

info@bsynchro.com

January 17, 2012

Product & Services Director - Optimal Technology Solutions - Egypt

- Understanding the key market trends which affect client needs and therefore products & services positioning
- Understanding the competitive outlook and technical environment whilst planning and implementing appropriate responses
- Creating compelling business cases to initiate product or request enhancement
- Maintaining products roadmaps and following products review and development processes in a timely manner
- Working with the Sales and Marketing team to brief staff, position products correctly and maximize sales effectiveness.
- Co-coordinating functions across the business to ensure products are fully supported
- Taking responsibility for collecting, measuring and distributing all relevant products metrics, such as sales, bug reports, customer usage, customer satisfaction, product profitability
- Ensuring product performance measures are fed into new product development cycle
- Developing and maintaining an internal communication plan to facilitate the sharing of knowledge across the business
- Managing peer and stakeholder expectation of the deliverability of business goals
- Ensuring feedback mechanisms are in place
- Acting as a champion for products internally and externally
- Champion products performance as a business KPI

Skills
- Proven experience in managing a portfolio of products in the internet/Mobile/VAS market.
- The ability to drive complex products from inception to delivery and beyond
- Effective research and presentation skills including presenting confidently to market
- The drive and focus to build a new functional area and embed within the business
- Ability to lead by example and sell product management as a discipline
- The ability to create accurate Business Cases in a timely manner
- Experience at communicating outputs at multiple levels within the business
- Skilled in communications plan development and execution
- Collaborative thinker and able to 'join the dots' across multiple domains
- Mature and professional approach to expectation management
- Bachelor degree in any discipline with MBA

jobs@optts.com

October 17, 2011

Technical Product Manager - Data Consult - Lebanon

Key Responsibilities
- Perform business management for the product including revenue and gross margin forecasting.
- Keep the management informed of any relevant information to operations.
- Act as a leader for the technology within the company.
- Development of a financial and business plan, including product pricing and approval of non-standard pricing requests.
- Support the sales team to make sure that opportunities are turned into orders.
- Make sure that the sales team is trained on the products.
- Negotiate business terms with the technology suppliers.
- Generates sales reports and analysis for his line of business.
- Develop supplier relationship and update portfolio.

Market Input
- Analyze the market and understand customer demands.
- Package solutions based on verticals.
- Benchmark competitive products.
- Study and analyze the competition (SWOT, etc.).

Market Output
- Uncover leads and deliver opportunities to the AMs.
- Manage the product roadmap.
- Promote the line of business through all channels: Customer visits, Events, Phone calls, email, web.
- Manage the marketing budget.

Skills & Experience
- B.S. in Computer or Communications Engineering
- Minimum 2-3 years in selling Data Center Products
- Fluent in Arabic & English
- Ability to speak at conferences
- Excellent written, oral, and presentation communications skills
- Very flexible working time schedule and ability to work across multiple time zones
- High level of certification
- Product Knowledge: Cisco UCS, Cisco MDS, Storage, Cisco Nexus, EMC, VDI, VMware.
- A product manager researches, selects, develops, and places a company's products.

info@dcgroup.com

May 24, 2011

Product Manager - The Landmark Group - Dubai

Lead, own and drive the evolution for select web product(s) by partnering with the web, design, development and online marketing teams.

Responsibilities
- Lead and facilitate all aspects of a product
- Brainstorm new product ideas
- Determine and prioritize user and business benefits
- Drive the development of selected ideas
- Create Product Requirement Documents (PRDs)
- Create mockups/prototypes (or partner with design/UX managers) to visually communicate selected ideas
- Create process flow diagrams to indicate idea logic
- Define product or feature Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Understand product usage by monitoring product performance through tools like Google Analytics and conducting online surveys
- Recommend improvements and corrective actions accordingly
- Manage release versions and communicate release notes to concerned stakeholders
- Participate in product update meetings to report progress, problems & projections on a periodic basis
- Promote products and features by planning and implementing product marketing strategies (via email marketing campaigns, social media etc.)
- Lead the change request process
- Partner with the Senior Product Manager to define and iterate your product’s respective Product Road Map

Requirements
- Demonstrated experience with the responsibilities mentioned above
- Demonstrated ability to work with a team
- Demonstrated experience in transforming ideas into real features.
- Ability to comfortably manage relationships with multiple vendors
- Outstanding communication skills – both written and verbal
- Passionate about high quality (simple, clean, user-friendly, relevant and web 2.0) user interfaces
- Informed about the latest trends in the web space like HTML5, CSS3 etc.
- Strong technical background in computer engineering
- Excellent presentation skills
- Quantitative analytical abilities
- Strong organizational skills
- BA/BS in an Information Systems or Computer Science field. (MSIM is a plus).

webteam@cplmg.com

March 13, 2011

Lead Developer – Marketing and Product Development – Toronto

Achilles Media is on the hunt for someone who is passionate about web and mobile development. As the Lead Developer, you will have 5+ year of development experience in a team environment and be proficient working with an array of languages, tools and methodologies.

The Lead Developer will work within the Product Development and Marketing Teams to lead the design, and build our event sites and supporting applications. Under the direction of the Director of Marketing and Product Development, you will be responsible for scalable design and builds, quality assurance, and maintenance of web sites, mobile sites and digital products. Examples of digital products include custom applications, digital publishing products, content management systems, and custom social networking applications.

In addition to core development skills, the Lead Developer will be well-versed in scalable development methodologies, SEO best practices and quality assurance protocols.

Reporting Relationships
The Lead Web Developer is a key member of the Product Development Team. He/she reports to the Director of Marketing and Product Development, oversees a small staff, and collaborates with the Product Development Manager to map out product roadmaps, schedules, feature lists and upgrade schedules.

Duties and Responsibilities (these include but are not limited to)
- Design, build and maintain the websites that support Achilles events
- Design, build and maintain the mobile sites that support Achilles events
- Design, build and maintain a variety of different digital media products that support all Achilles Events
- Advise and execute on SEO best practices and implementations for the Web Team and the Marketing Team.
- Research new Web 2.0 tools and propose applications that could be used to grow Achilles Digital Properties
- Work with IT to ensure all legacy systems are integrated into new digital properties (Will require PHP and MYSQL skills)
- Lead and Implement unit testing and QA best practices to ensure accurate, timely delivery of all technical projects.
- Compile data, research and recommendations about Achilles web and mobile properties including; traffic patterns, keywords, site optimizations and user flow with a goal to measure the success of various marketing initiatives.
- Work with internal teams to ensure the content and information displayed on Achilles Digital Media properties is up to date and error free.
- Manage a small staff including possible recruitment, training, and assignment of tasks and provisioning of feedback.
- Recommend, vet and manage outside technical resources on an as needs basis including freelancers and contract staff.
- Ensure resources are available to complete projects and assigned tasks in a timely and efficient manner.
- Ensure best practices in coding, scalable development, and quality assurance.
- In conjunction with the Product Manager, ensure all systems architecture and product development is documented for future reference.
- Any other tasks that may be assigned by the Marketing Director.

Skills / Qualifications
- Experienced in MySQL 5 and procedural PHP 5 (LAMP)
- Experienced in PHP Smarty Templates
- Experienced in JavaScript, AJAX, and jQuery
- Experienced in developing mashups using API’s for Flickr, YouTube, Facebook Connect, Twitter etc.
- Strong Understanding of interface design and cross-browser compatible CSS
- Experience with mobile development (WAP/ Native)
- Experienced in managing and constructing content management systems
- Experienced in Shell and Subversion
- Experienced in coding E-Commerce stores (Moneris, Merchant Accounts, etc)
- Experienced in OOP PERL 5
- Proven experience in Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Nice to Haves
- Experienced in using Flash (ActionScript 3.0)
- Converting Photoshop to X/HTML
- An understanding of video editing software and compression standards
- Understanding of Web 2.0 developments in areas such as Cloud Computing, HTML 5, etc
- Exposure to media and television industry
- Active in the technology startup community (events, workshops, etc)

jobs@achillesmedia.com