Product Manager

Compensation Grade:

12

BASIC PURPOSE:
 

The Product Manager is responsible for delivering business value, improving efficiency, and creating customer satisfaction through the design of superior products. Within their designated value streams, PMs focus on delivering incremental value by driving product changes and working closely with a team of developers and business partners. They support in-depth business reviews, create requirements, understand up and downstream implications and integrations, communicate and present across all levels of the organization, and support cross-functional product teams.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Acts as a Business Analyst for new products and features, by creating in-depth users stories for the development teams.

• Gains a thorough understanding of customer and stakeholder need needs, uses that knowledge to help deliver enterprise products

• Translates business goals and end user needs into product strategy; communicates direction and product priorities to the development team, and third-party partners

• Identifies goals, metrics, and analytics to determine product value; continually making recommendations and refinements to the product backlog

• Conducts end user research to identify user stories and determine Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

• Monitors research as well as the competitive landscape to recommend the best solutions and ensure that products remain or become best in class

• Ensure products are aligned with company, stakeholder and end-user priorities to improve efficiency, and improve customer satisfaction

• Documents, reviews and ensures that quality and change control standards are met

• Creates, prioritizes and accepts user stories; incorporate them into release planning
  Identifies pros, cons, issues, obstacles, dependencies and value associated with features and enhancements

• Participates in standups, iteration planning sessions, product demos and retrospectives

• Condenses complex technical concepts into non-technical language for all stakeholders
  Fosters collaboration with team members to drive value and collectively identify and resolve impediments

• Acts as a proponent of modern software development practices
  Advocates for end users and stakeholders by empathizing with and understanding their needs and becoming the domain expert

• Regularly works with the product team to continuously assess progress, disseminate lessons learned, and understand next steps

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES: 

• Business Insight: Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals

• Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives

• Communicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences

• Cultivates Innovation: Creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful

• Drives Results: Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances

• Interpersonal Savvy: Relating openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people

• Manages Ambiguity: Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear

• Organizational Savvy: Maneuvering comfortably through complex policy, process and people-related organizational dynamics

• Empathy: Understands the needs of multiple stakeholders and is responsive in meeting their needs with the most optimal resolution

• Plans and Aligns: Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelors degree and 5 years of relevant work experience

• Experience working as a Product Manager in a modern software development based enterprise environment

• Demonstrated experience with modern software development product management practices and agile methodologies,

• Experience communicating with and influencing functional and technical team members at all levels in the organization

• Experience working as part of a collaborative, cross-functional, modern software design and development team

• Experience identifying goals, metrics and analytics to measure product value

Work Location: This individual must reside within commuting distance from our Atlanta, GA office. This position may not be filled in New Jersey, either in-person or remotely.

Work Schedule: Onsite with an opportunity to work remote partially.

Visa Sponsorship: Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

We are an equal opportunity employer.