Product Manager (L4)

Robots & Pencils is a company that builds meaningful, scalable digital products to solve real business problems. They are seeking an experienced Product Owner (L4) to lead product execution within cross-functional delivery teams and ensure successful outcomes for client initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Lead requirements gathering sessions with client stakeholders to understand business goals, operational workflows, and product needs
• Facilitate prioritization and tradeoff decisions across usability, feasibility, and business value, helping stakeholders with competing interests reach alignment
• Translate requirements into product roadmaps, feature documentation, and product requirements documents (PRDs)
• Define functional requirements, acceptance criteria, and success metrics for product features
• Break down product initiatives into Epics, Features, and User Stories suitable for agile development teams
• Ensure requirements are clear, actionable, and aligned with the overall product vision and delivery goals
• Own and manage the product backlog, ensuring work is clearly defined, prioritized, and aligned with business objectives
• Maintain backlog health through continuous refinement and prioritization
• Work with engineering and design teams to ensure stories are well-defined, technically feasible, and ready for development
• Maintain visibility into scope, dependencies, delivery risks, and trade-offs
• Balance near-term sprint delivery with long-term product scalability and maintainability
• Facilitate core agile ceremonies, including:
• Sprint planning
• Daily standups
• Backlog grooming sessions
• Sprint reviews and demos
• Retrospectives
• Ensure teams maintain clear sprint goals and consistent delivery cadence
• Monitor delivery progress and adjust priorities as needed to meet business and client objectives
• Serve as a primary product contact for both client stakeholders and internal teams
• Proactively manage expectations, surface risks and tradeoff implications early, before they become delivery problems
• Communicate priorities, delivery progress, and product decisions clearly and proactively
• Translate technical concepts into business language and business requirements into actionable development work
• Work closely with engineers, designers, architects, and project managers to align on product priorities and delivery timelines
• Support roadmap planning, release coordination, and expectation management
• Validate delivered features against acceptance criteria and intended business outcomes
• Ensure delivered functionality meets quality, usability, and product expectations
• Identify risks, dependencies, and ambiguities early, driving timely resolution
• Continuously improve product documentation, backlog management practices, and team collaboration workflows

Requirements:

• 7–10 years of experience in a Product Owner, Product Manager, or similar product delivery role within a software development environment
• Demonstrated track record leading complex product delivery through the full agile lifecycle
• Strong experience running product discovery, facilitating stakeholder workshops and requirements gathering sessions
• Strong product ownership experience: backlog management, feature prioritization, story writing, sprint ceremonies, and requirement documentation
• Proven experience delivering end-to-end web applications, comfortable enough with backend services and REST APIs to participate in architecture discussions and write meaningful stories
• Proficiency with AI productivity tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot) for research, writing, information synthesis, and workflow automation
• Experience supporting complex digital product delivery involving cross-functional engineering teams
• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum delivery practices and product ownership responsibilities
• Proven experience translating business requirements into structured product documentation and user stories
• Experience facilitating stakeholder workshops and requirements gathering sessions
• Familiarity with product delivery and collaboration tools such as: Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, GitHub
• Strong communication skills and the ability to bridge business and technical conversations
• Strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills
• Highly organized with strong attention to detail and follow-through
• Comfortable working in fast-paced consulting environments with evolving requirements
• Collaborative mindset and ability to work effectively within cross-functional delivery teams
• Strategic thinking combined with a pragmatic, delivery-focused approach
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and guide teams toward clear outcomes
• High level of accountability, ownership, and follow-through
• Adaptable, proactive, and comfortable working with both business and technical stakeholders