Product Manager
SQUAD is hiring a Product Manager embedded in its user-centric UX Design & Research team to shape product roadmaps, prioritize backlogs, and drive hardware-enabled/IoT-adjacent products from concept through delivery and growth. Requires 5+ years in product management, ownership, or business analysis; IoT experience is a plus.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Kyiv; Lviv; Remote
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Product
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5+ years of experience in Product Management, Product Ownership, Business Analysis, or a similar role
- Experience working directly with stakeholders to define business needs and product requirements
- Strong understanding of product lifecycle management, roadmap planning, and backlog prioritization
- Experience working with cross-functional teams in Agile environments
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution
- Comfortable working independently with minimal supervision
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Product thinking and customer-centric mindset
- Business and commercial awareness
- Strong organizational and prioritization skills
- Curiosity and a continuous learning mindset
- Flexibility and high level of autonomy
- Ability to influence and build alignment across teams and stakeholders
- Proactive approach to identifying opportunities and solving problems
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability
Nice to have
- Experience working with IoT would be a huge advantage
Full description
Team Summary
You will be joining a deeply user-centric UX Design & Research team, which consists of creative problem-solvers, designers, and researchers obsessed with understanding the "why" behind every user interaction. Our culture is rooted in radical empathy, iterative prototyping, and evidence-based design. We don’t just build interfaces; we architect complex ecosystems where physical gadgets and digital experiences meet.
As the Product Manager in our company, you will be embedded directly within this creative engine to ensure our product vision is grounded in user reality from Day 1. This is a rare opportunity to define the company’s product culture from the ground up, acting as the strategic bridge between our design laboratory and engineering execution. We are looking for a partner who breathes design thinking but brings the rigorous strategic structure needed to ship sophisticated, hardware-enabled products
Job Summary
We are looking for a Product Manager who combines strong product thinking with a hands-on approach to execution. This role is focused on identifying opportunities, shaping product initiatives, and driving them from concept through delivery and growth.
You will work closely with clients, business stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to understand goals, uncover opportunities, define product direction, and deliver solutions that create measurable value. Beyond day-to-day product execution, you will be expected to proactively identify areas for improvement, contribute to product growth, and help shape the future direction of both client and internal initiatives.
The ideal candidate is highly proactive, takes ownership, and is comfortable leading initiatives end-to-end. They can independently turn ideas into actionable strategies, build alignment among stakeholders, and drive execution while maintaining a strong focus on customer needs and business outcomes
Responsibilities and Duties
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business objectives, challenges, and opportunities
- Translate business needs into clear product requirements, user stories, and actionable plans
- Define and maintain product roadmaps that align business goals, customer needs, and delivery capabilities
- Own and prioritize product backlogs to ensure teams focus on the highest-value initiatives
- Partner with Engineering, Design, UX Research, Marketing, and other cross-functional teams throughout the product lifecycle
- Facilitate communication between business and technical stakeholders, ensuring alignment and transparency
- Drive product initiatives from idea through implementation, managing priorities, dependencies, risks, and trade-offs