Product Manager

Role Overview

• Maintain a balance between business viability, user desirability and technical feasibility while delivering software products with a team.
• Work closely with Business Partners to define a product vision and break it down into an actionable backlog of user stories for the development team.
• Work hands-on with the development team to prioritize, plan, and deliver software that creates excellent user experiences.
• Collaborate with the product team to define specifications, requirements, and acceptance criteria for deliverables.
• Help Business Partners understand our iterative development approach and focus on delivering a Minimum Viable Product through careful and deliberate prioritization.
• Work with product designers to ensure timely delivery of designs and assets to the development team.
• Conduct product experiments, user interviews and other validation techniques to gather feedback and product insights
• Create assets to guide product development work (Discovery, Framing and Scoping documents, opportunity trees, user stories).
• Help partners understand our iterative development approach.
• Mentor and train other PMs to help them learn agile/XP methods, product management techniques and build skills.
• Help innovate and iterate on agile PM processes and share our learnings.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• 5+ years with progressive responsibilities in an Agile software development environment
• 3+ years of experience as a Product Manager/Owner with responsibilities to include defining product vision, strategy, product roadmaps and building and managing backlogs and similar duties.
• Master’s Degree (even better)
• Leadership experience
• Experience collaborating directly with Agile software methodologies (Scrum, eXtreme Programming, Kanban)
• Skilled at defining and prioritizing product features.
• Strong leadership and communication skills and the ability to teach others.
• Ability to work collaboratively with others and navigate complex decision making.
• Ability to collaborate well with engineers, designers, and business partners.
• Previous success delivering a product to market with an Agile development team, and ongoing development and support of production applications.
• Curious about new technologies and exhibit a strong desire to learn.
• Practice in Lean/Lean Startup thinking, human-centered product development and Agile Software development
• Have exposure to lightweight product development methods such as user story mapping and/ or rapid prototyping

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.