Manager – Technical Product Management

Manager – Technical Product Management

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 3 – 5 years of related experience preferred.
• Minimum 2 years working in an Agile Product Management environment, preferably on customer-facing products within agile development teams. Demonstrable experience with Agile methodologies.
• Proficiency in using Smartsheets and managing projects.
• Experience with JIRA and Confluence tools.
• Strong analytical approach and skills in research and analysis.
• Outstanding communication and presentation abilities, both verbally and in writing.
• Experience with data management, data warehouse and data interface concepts.
• Strong ability to speak to, as well as collaborate with, engineers, product managers, project managers, corporate leadership, and partners.
• Vendor Management experience software and system integration consultants.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and prioritize initiatives that have significant impact on business goals and objectives.
• Build and maintain detailed functional design specification documents to support development and implementation.
• Participate in the entire lifecycle of product features, from initial concept to ongoing support.
• Apply design thinking principles to address customer challenges and deliver effective solutions.
• Ability to be a Product Manager on multiple software platforms.
• Stay updated on supply chain operations and related systems to provide informed support and solutions.
• Lead user story gathering and discovery workshops.
• Provide input into the functional design, write epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Act as a bridge between business requirements and technical implementation, providing clear mentorship to developers.
• Function as scrum leader and support PI planning activities.
• Facilitate teamwork between onsite and remote development teams.
• Improve team performance through mentoring and training.
• Lead the adoption of key takeaways from project retrospectives.
• Collaborate with other product teams and technical architects to ensure cohesive product development.
• Develop and implement testing strategies to ensure product quality and functionality.
• Verify testing results and track defects via Jira Dashboards.
• Support end-to-end testing and provide sign-off for code release.
• Support the team in adopting with the adoption of PMO processes and standards.
• Solve difficult problems impacting a team or project.
• Develop and nurture strong working relationships with collaborators.
• Work with vendors on either software or system integration (SI).

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous project management experience is plus.