Sr. Product Manager (including delivery)

Role: Sr. Product Manager (including delivery)

Location: Des Moines, IA LOCALS ONLY DL/StateID required

Schedule: Hybrid - Onsite 3 day/wk

Interview Mode: Virtual

Duration: 12-month contract

Experience Required: 8+ years

Job Description:

Division: Enterprise Experience Enablement.

1. Wants local candidates only
   2. Support business units with in-house tools and 3rd party vendor products.
   3. Work with the business to clearly define the requirements / scope / enhancements and then Engineering teams to deliver.
   
   They do not have to have Cambridge exp. Just need a solid Product Manager.
   
   1. Please describe the project work, and what day-to-day responsibilities look like: My area is starting a 2+ year project to outsource a handful of our communication capabilities to a third party, Broadridge.Capabilities in my area include:outbound print and e-delivery, document composition, and all inbound capabilities (scanning, indexing, data extraction, deposits, return mail) . This position I m hiring for is to replace a product manager in my inbound space. There is a lot of process understanding needed. We have a lot of different processes for how we handle our incoming work and we need to figure out how to move a majority of this work to our third party vendor for them to handle the scanning, indexing, OCR to then feed into our business areas. This role will need to learn the processes, will be a liaison between our business units and our new vendor. I need someone to be on my product team, but this role will need Project management and Business analyst skills as well to be successful.

Job activities include:

Product Strategy and Discovery

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  Develops understanding of product strategy in context of the enterprise and business strategies.
  Responsible for executing against the strategy as part of a product team(s)
  Accountable for understanding and defining key business outcomes and requirements for their product. Product Delivery
  Is accountable for success of product delivery in collaboration with technology and non-technology partners.
  In partnership with other members of a team, work to remove impediments and manage dependencies that the team may face in the pursuit of value creation.
  Ensures the product team has the business, customer, user, and stakeholder context required to solve problems effectively and efficiently.
  Collaborates with team to break down work in a manner which frequently releases valuable product changes.
  Typically plays the role of product owner for SCRUM teams, collaborating on story creation and refinement, definition and success criteria, prioritization, and accepts work as done.
  Participate in team/agile ceremonies (effective structure & routines).
  Partner with team members to deliver value with quality.
  Communicates product releases to stakeholders & partners. Product Assessment
  Consults with Product Manager or Sr. Product Manager to ensure every goal-aligned unit of value created by the team(s) is measurable and can show progress towards product goals.
  Stakeholder management
• Communicates discovery and delivery priorities, results of experiments, quantifiable progress to goals, and delivery health of their product with stakeholders.
  Communicates effectively as part of the product management team supporting a broader product family or portfolio.
  Identifies opportunities to improve the product management practice within their sphere of responsibility; and works as part of the product management team to continuously improve.
  
  2. What technologies or systems will this contingent worker use? Confluence, Teams, Jira, Miro
  3. Please provide background information on the application(s) this worker will work with: Hyperscience or any OCR tooling, Understanding of automated check processing/X9, Captiva
  4. What skills are you looking for in the ideal candidate?
  Required
  i. Product delivery
  ii. Ability to manage a large scale project with many dependencies across the enterprise
  iii. Stakeholder management
  iv. Business Process mapping
  6. Will this person be any sort of team lead? No HR responsibility. But want this person to help lead an effort from a product management standpoint.
  
  7. What is the size and culture of the team? Our inbound capabilities have two engineering teams, One in India and one stateside.
  8. Will this person interact with any other Principal departments? Yes, many. This is an enterprise wide effort where we will need to work with many areas to complete the project.
  9. Is this role needing someone to sit on-site, or work remote? Hybrid - Onsite
  10. How long is this contract expected to last? Is there a possibility of extension beyond this date? 2-3 years
  11. What does the interview process look like for this opening? One round