Product Manager

JAMS Software is a company that seeks a proactive Product Manager who will serve as the bridge between market strategy and engineering execution. The role involves owning the product lifecycle, ensuring effective communication across teams, and leading initiatives for market adoption while maintaining a high standard of operational efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• Own the entire lifecycle from customer discovery to sprint delivery
• Responsible for requirement writing, backlog grooming, and sprint planning, ensuring the team always works on the highest-value tasks
• Move beyond traditional wire-framing by leveraging modern AI and prototyping tools to hand off working software concepts to Engineering
• Operate with a 'get the job done' mentality, meeting internal SLAs with speed and reducing meeting bloat
• Lead the Web Client initiative to achieve wide market adoption and oversee the plan for architectural upscaling
• Maintain a pristine Jira environment, ensuring that the source of truth for our R&D team is accurate, up-to-date, and free of technical debt

Requirements:

• Unified Product Ownership: Own the entire lifecycle from customer discovery to sprint delivery. You are responsible for requirement writing, backlog grooming, and sprint planning, ensuring the team always works on the highest-value tasks. Decision making skills are a must have and you must be ok making decisions without complete information
• The Vibe Coding Evolution: Move beyond traditional wire-framing. You will leverage modern AI and prototyping tools to hand off working software concepts to Engineering, allowing them to focus on enterprise-grade implementation rather than deciphering static requirements
• High-Urgency Delivery: Operate with a 'get the job done' mentality. You are expected to meet internal SLAs with speed, reducing meeting bloat by providing clear, actionable direction that allows Engineering to build immediately. Must be incredibly available to teams across the organization. Top tier communication skills are a must have
• Strategic Execution: Lead the Web Client initiative to achieve wide market adoption. You will also partner with Engineering to oversee the plan for architectural upscaling, ensuring the product is built for the future
• Systems Hygiene: Maintain a pristine Jira environment. You ensure that the source of truth for our R&D team is accurate, up-to-date, and free of technical debt in the backlog
• Radical Proactivity: You don't wait for information to be handed to you. You actively build trusting relationships across Sales, Marketing, Customer Ops, R&D, Support, and Services
• Extreme Context Awareness: You must know where every project stands at all times. You understand the market's pulse and the company's strategic direction as well as the developers do
• Compressed Timelines: You are comfortable with the industry shift from months to weeks. You value design and UX as iterative adjustments on functional prototypes rather than up-front bottlenecks
• Efficiency Obsession: You proactively find ways to reduce unnecessary meetings and documentation in favor of direct communication and rapid delivery
• Demonstrated ability to get things done on time, under pressure, and lead a team by influence
• Demonstrated proficiency in utilizing AI to streamline Product responsibilities and team workflows
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills; comfortable presenting to executive leadership
• Experience managing and prioritizing work across multiple stakeholder groups simultaneously
• Experience with Claude Code is preferred
• Experience with Claude strongly preferred
• MSFT MVP and DBA experience preferred
• JAMS experience would be a huge plus!