RQ11625 - Product Manager - Senior

Maarut, Inc.

$110K — $130K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of product management experience, particularly in mobile applications.
  • Proven track record in agile methodologies and user-centered design principles.
  • Strong technical background with hands-on development experience in mobile (Kotlin, Swift, React Native) and backend (Node.js, Go, Python).
  • Demonstrated ability to manage product roadmaps and provide executive-level reporting.
  • Experience working collaboratively with cross-functional teams and multiple stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Lead agile product delivery for mobile digital credential solutions, emphasizing iterative design and continuous improvement.
  • Facilitate sprint planning and cross-functional ceremonies to enable smooth project execution.
  • Apply user-centered design principles to influence product decisions based on research and real-world usage.
  • Develop and maintain a product roadmap aligned with service needs and technical capabilities.
  • Drive collaborative working sessions across diverse teams including UX, engineering, and policy experts.
  • Promote team self-organization and coordinate dependencies among multiple partners and stakeholders.
  • Translate complex product and technical requirements into accessible language for various audiences.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to shape digital credential solutions that influence industry standards.
  • Work in a collaborative, agile environment across multidisciplinary teams.
  • Engagement with partner ministries and industry governance bodies.
  • Access to continuous professional development in cutting-edge technology and agile practices.
Full Job Description
Job Description
Key Responsibilities:

  • Leadagile product delivery for digital credential solutions, supportingiterative design, testing, and continuous improvement.
  • Facilitatesprint planning, backlog prioritization, stand-ups, and cross-functionalteam ceremonies to ensure smooth execution.
  • Applyuser-centred design principles and insights from research, analytics, andreal-world usage to guide product decisions.
  • Developand maintain the product roadmap, aligning service needs, technicalcapabilities, regulatory trends, and industry standards.
  • Drivecollaborative working sessions, design sprints, and alignment workshopsacross product, engineering, UX, DevOps, and policy teams.
  • Promoteteam self-organization, remove blockers, and coordinate dependenciesacross multiple partners and stakeholders.
  • Communicatecomplex product and technical concepts to executives, business teams,developers, and external partners in clear, accessible ways.
  • Evaluatetechnical feasibility, risks, and trade-offs across various components,including digital wallet, agent, backend, and other ecosystem components.
  • Buildtrusted relationships with partner ministries, industry groups, andgovernance bodies
  • Providesubject-matter leadership on Verifiable Credentials, modelimplementations, security and privacy.
  • Translateemerging standards and architectural concepts (e.g., attestation,credential binding, status lists) into actionable product requirements.
  • Contributeto interoperability planning and adoption of key standards to ensurealignment with industry direction and trust frameworks suchas PCTF, NIST, and eIDAS .


Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Have:

  • Product Manager with Mobile application experience.
  • Agile and user-focused Product Manager with experience delivering enterprise mobile applications and digital products.
  • Strong technical background with hands-on software development knowledge across mobile technologies (Kotlin, Swift, React Native) and backend services (Node.js, Go, Python).
  • Proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional engineering teams, business partners, and external stakeholders to drive product success.
  • Experienced in managing product roadmaps, project timelines, dependencies, and risks, while providing clear executive-level reporting on milestones, progress, and success metrics.


Skill Set Requirements:

Agile Product Leadership, Collaboration & Delivery:

  • Establishand maintain the agile environment required for teams to build,test, and iterate on user centred digital credential products.
  • Leadand coordinate multidisciplinary teams through daily stand-ups,sprint planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives, and iterationreviews.
  • Apply usercentered design practices to ensure product decisions are informed byuser research, accessibility needs, and real world usage patterns.
  • Manageiterative product development cycles, validating featuresthrough rapid prototyping, user testing, feedback loops, andcontinuous improvement.
  • Definethe product roadmap aligning service needs and technical features withbusiness goals.
  • Translatemarket, regulatory, and standards trends into actionable product direction
  • Ownproduct KPIs and success metrics such as adoption, credential issuancevolume, and trust scores
  • Managethe agile process for multidisciplinary teams-including productmanagers, developers, UX designers, researchers, DevOps engineers,architects, content creators, and identity/security specialists.
  • Removedelivery obstacles and coordinate with internal and external partners tomaintain delivery momentum and unblock dependencies.


Communication, Stakeholder Engagement & Technical Decision Support:

  • Build strong, collaborative relationships with internal teams, partner ministries, industry partners, and governance bodies involved in digital credential ecosystem work.
  • Communicate complex technical and product concepts clearly to diverse audiences-executives, business units, developers, policy teams, and external stakeholders.
  • Work closely with engineering teams to evaluate solution options, trade-offs, technical feasibility, operational risks, and performance implications across mobile app wallet, agent, and backend components.
  • Set clear expectations for delivery timelines, risks, milestones, and dependencies, ensuring transparency and alignment across all stakeholder groups.
  • Identify and escalate issues, risks, and blockers early, driving timely resolution and ensuring product continuity.


Technical Expertise:

  • A solid computer science foundation that supports clear, effective communication with software engineers and technical specialists, enabling informed decision-making and technical alignment.
  • Has demonstrated previous experience with hands-on development and/or architecting software solutions. Examples may include (but not limited to):
  • Has knowledge and experience with developing software with at least one primary stack (e.g., Kotlin/Swift/React Native for mobile; Node/Go/Python for backend services)
  • Systems designs that consider services, data stores, queues, APIs, security monitoring/logging and scaling requirements
  • Strong familiarity with API design, micro services patterns and modern cloud infrastructure (Azure/AWS), supporting scalable and secure product delivery.
  • Proven hands-on experience building any software solutions including but not limited to development of open SDKs, backend APIs, and other technical components that support product delivery.
  • Practical experience working with modern mobile technologies, such as React Native, Swift, Kotlin, or similar frameworks, enabling effective collaboration with engineering teams across platforms.
  • Demonstrated understanding of mobile app architecture, eg. SDK management, API integration and related architectural considerations.


Digital Credentials Subject-Matter Expertise:

  • Understand and articulate the technical architecture of digital credentials ecosystem including wallet components, credential issuers, verifiers, and trust registries, to ensure product decisions align with platform capabilities and ecosystem constraints.
  • Staying constantly informed on industry standards and innovations in digital credentials wallet.
  • Assess the impact of evolving digital identity frameworks (e.g., PCTF, NIST, eIDAS) on product functionality, compliance, trust scoring, and integration strategies.
  • Understand and articulate the roles and interactions of issuer, holder, and verifier, including trust chain considerations, protocol flows, and governance implications.
  • Evaluate and translate technical requirements related to W3C VC, decentralized identifiers (DIDs), credential status, revocation mechanisms, cryptographic assurances, and secure exchanges into clear product features and roadmap priorities.
  • Translate technical concepts (e.g., attestation, holder binding, revocation registries, storage models) into user-focused requirements and clear documentation that informs design, development, and stakeholder decisions.
  • Contribute to standards discussions, ecosystem alignment, and interoperability planning for digital credential platforms and wallets.

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