IT / Product Manager

Short Description:

The European Alliance for Innovation; www.eai.eu is a community driven organization devoted to empowering ICT innovation in Europe. EAI enables an environment for the ICT Innovation community to interact in that is both virtual; through EAI web portals and physical; through EAI conferences and summits.

For supporting these activities, EAI develops a comprehensive portfolio of specialized software products intended for both internal as well as external usage. The IT/Product Manager is responsible for the product planning and execution throughout the product lifecycle, including: gathering and prioritizing requirements, and working closely with the various department to ensure that the product supports the company's overall strategy and goals.

Key accountability:

• Gathering of requirements from the various departments, turning these into formal product specifications
• Definition of the product positioning from a marketing point of view and definition of a roadmap that balance feature against time to produce, production of MRD and PRD.
• Reviewing the product quality and following up on its release
• Ensure that the IT product is accompanied with sufficient documentation, gather user feedback, work on improvements
• Management of the IT team

Required skills:

The ideal candidate would be

• smart, motivated, focused person with a passion for high quality work
• ability to manage a team of developers
• Familiarity and experience using tools such as Visio or similar
• capable of handling simultaneous threads and work under pressure.
• experienced in software product management
• fluent English is required
• demonstrated success defining and launching excellent products
• good communicator who enjoys working in a team.
• forward thinking (with an interest in new things, having played with some bleeding edge software and languages and with ideas about the future of the web, etc.

Full/Part Time:
Full time

Location:
Trento, Italy

To apply, please send your CV and cover letter, mentioning the job title in the subject, to jobs.eai@create-net.org.