Product Manager

Product Manager

Great long-term opportunity with an industry leader that is seeing their business accelerate!

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead development and implementation of product strategy: future state based on deep understanding of how the business works, incorporating customer insights, markets, competition, and distribution capabilities as well as the potential game changing new functionality and capabilities company will require to compete. This should manifest itself in a roadmap of initiatives including small enhancement and content refreshments to existing products as well as new product needs.
• Identify product opportunities far in advance of obsolescence, drive strategic planning, and articulate topline business requirements
• Lead cross-functional working teams to design, develop, and implement prioritized product roadmap
• Source data and craft test plans to ensure data-driven decisioning; use insights to inform priority of work
• Proactively seek input from stakeholders to align the roadmap against business and customer needs
• Forecast ROI, regularly report on product performance post launch, drive product adoption, and lead optimization plan
• Identifies goals, metrics, and analytics to determine product value; continually makes recommendations and refinements to the product backlog based on learnings
• Manages and grooms the product backlog; makes future decisions based on the value that will be delivered
• Monitors research as well as the competitive landscape to recommend the best solutions and ensure that products remain or become best in class
• Formulates, tests and refines assumptions and hypotheses through user research and testing
• Creates, prioritizes and accepts user stories; incorporate them into release planning
• Manage product lifecycles: continually evaluate product performance and key customer insights and ensure new product needs are identified far enough in advance to address needs before product obsolescence.
• Communicate product information: including product roadmap, specifications, value proposition, sales tools training tools and competitive information to stakeholders. Provide status updates to PMO for regular reporting cycles.
• Writes technical user stories

This is a 12-month contract with a possibility to extend or convert to direct-hire. Enjoy a hybrid schedule of 3 days in-office.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• 3+ years in product management and ownership in a modern software development company
• Strong analytical skills and ability to make data-driven decisions
• Strong experience writing detailed user story requirements with detailed acceptance criteria, refining with scrum team, and ensuring successful delivery of scope
• SAFe/Agile/Scrum experience
• PI planning experience
• SDLC - experience working with a development organization
• Excellent communication skills

PREFERRED SKILLS:

• Build.io
• Adobe Target
• Bachelor's degree

Must be authorized to work in the US. Sponsorships are not available.