Technical Product Manager

• Manage upward
• Available to effectively support other product portfolios
• Positively influence outcomes across complex capabilities / initiatives
• Effectively leads meetings with senior leadership
• Anticipates leadership / stakeholder needs; proactively address gaps
• Serve as an intermediary between business and architecture/engineering teams and subjectively traverse when needed
• Coach others on areas of expertise

Blast Radius

• Accountable for more than one market segment and/or line of business product.
• Accountable for decisions tied to product funding between $2M-$7M.
• Identifies opportunities across lines of businesses for reuse and drives improvements to product delivery inclusive of people, process and technology with an eye towards modernization, growth and customer loyalty.

Technical Acumen

• Speaks credibly to both business and technology partners across teams and levels
• Clearly communicates strategic portfolio direction via multi-year roadmap
• Understand the infrastructure/technology/flow of product
• Understand the system components and how they integrate
• Influence the prioritization of the product backlog
• Evaluating technical alternatives and decomposing significantly complex problems into straightforward technical propositions
• Fluent in Aha, Rally, GitHub
• Ensure integration testing / automation practices

Product Management Discipline

• Possess an in-depth understanding of lean product management best practices and frameworks.
• Understand capabilities across the portfolio / product line.
• Not prescriptive, with theoretical definitions of what s needed in every scenario. Instead, you consider the challenge, dependencies, constraints, and apply the right tools based on your knowledge of various product management methodologies/frameworks.
• Understands cross customer deliverables between product lines
• Partners appropriately to support dependencies
• Partners appropriately across the portfolio to minimize overlapping work
• Ensures high-level roadmap alignment across portfolios where required
• Effectively looks up and out to influence multi-portfolio capabilities and their dependencies; enables on-time delivery via manageable features/stories coordinated across teams
• Negotiates win-win solutions across teams and lines of business (cross application / cross portfolio)
• Communicates effectively with all senior stakeholders (up to Senior Leadership)
• Clearly communicates strategic portfolio direction via multi-year roadmap
• Ensure user stories and features are directly tied to OKRs.
• Ensure overall product strategy and Roadmap are executed.
• Drive the budget at scrum team/product level.

Customer Focus

• Work with product manager and business to obtain voice of customer (VOC) and identify capabilities to add to the product
• Define and provide direction for user experience and user interface (if applicable to product)
• Take advice from Ferris Bueller -- Life moves pretty fast. If you don t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
• Create user documentation (if applicable to product)
• Create and communicate the value proposition via internal marketing material for product promotion

Culture

• Respected by your engineering peers
• Consistently maintains a growth mindset
• Attends relevant events to build network and cultivate relationships; Networks with a variety of individuals inside and outside of the organization
• Advocates position and has tenacity to drive to objectives
• Facilitates resolutions and makes decisions
• Serves as an influential voice for product management strategies
• Manage complex requirements, refine products based on business goals and market needs
• Actively attracts talented resources to fill roles across levels / job families.
• Identifies opportunities to retain and attract diverse candidates