About the job
flatgigs is hiring a Hybrid Product & Project Manager in Dubai. This role combines strategic product leadership with hands-on project execution for our IoT platform. The manager will shape the long-term vision, set operational frameworks, and ensure projects move forward smoothly from planning through delivery.
Main Responsibilities
Product Strategy and Roadmap
- Strategic Planning: Own the IoT platform roadmap, prioritizing features that drive customer value and business results while considering engineering bandwidth.
- Intake Management: Manage the intake pipeline for requirements across multiple portfolio companies using a structured prioritization approach.
- Market Intelligence: Track the competitive landscape, including platforms like AWS IoT and Azure IoT Hub, to help maintain a leading market position.
- Requirements Discovery: Lead discovery sessions with both portfolio companies and external clients to turn business needs into actionable specifications.
Project Execution and Delivery
- Technical Writing: Create detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, and product briefs to give engineers clear direction with minimal need for clarification.
- Agile Leadership: Oversee daily operations for a distributed engineering team, including sprint planning, standups, and retrospectives.
- Risk and Dependency Management: Maintain dependency maps and blocker logs, develop mitigation plans, and escalate issues to the CEO as needed.
- Knowledge Management: Keep a central knowledge base up to date with architectural decisions, meeting notes, onboarding materials, and product specs.
Operational and Financial Oversight
- Budget Tracking: Monitor monthly actuals versus forecasts and flag any discrepancies early.
- Cloud and Infrastructure: Manage cloud provider consoles (AWS/GCP) for resource provisioning and developer access.
- Environment Parity: Audit development, staging, and production environments to ensure they align with architectural requirements.
Stakeholder and Go-to-Market Coordination
- Reporting: Prepare monthly board-level updates highlighting milestones, key metrics, and important decisions.
- Collateral Creation: Develop product one-pagers, demo scripts, and integration guides to support go-to-market efforts.

