Staff Product Manager

Staff Product Manager

Requirements

• 10+ years overall professional experience working on complex business and/or technology problems.
• 7+ years Product Management experience working in an agile software development lifecycle (SDLC) environment.
• Advanced communication (written, verbal and presentation) skills, to deliver complex information effectively and align people with the needs of the project/team.
• Advanced problem solving skills, able to manage complex situations with multiple layers, and resolve to solution anticipating needs now and into the future.
• Advanced understanding of continuous product discovery methodologies, including interviews, ethnographic research, job shadowing, passive feedback collection (e.g., surveys, product usage analytics), prototyping, etc.
• Advanced awareness of workflow, and project tradeoffs to make decisions based on needs now and into the future.
• Demonstrated ability to influence strategic direction across a broad coalition of peers, stakeholders, and senior leaders.
• Advanced understanding of modern software development tools, processes, and architecture patterns; knows how to strike a balance between business needs and the scope of software engineering solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple project deliverables, making decisions and understanding tradeoffs, and create processes for efficiency and effective product delivery for their team and broader cross-functional delivery coalitions.
• Marketing Analysis skills and a mastery of the Industry and sharing white paper level information as necessary.
• Mastery of quantitative analysis across all areas of the business.
• High level skillset in program management tools and project mapping.
• High level technical skills and mastery of the industry to mitigate complicated issues and manage multiple complex deliverables simultaneously.
• G-Suite Tools, Collaboration tools (Slack is preferred), Atlassian SDLC suite (Jira, Confluence, etc.).
• Proficient with Looker or other relevant analytics tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop novel frameworks for identifying and validating which problems are big enough to matter, and how we should go about solving them.
• Consistently distill complex product challenges into compelling recommendations built on a foundation of facts, assumptions, and logic.
• Define and utilize continuous systems for quantitative and qualitative feedback gathering, and regularly gets close to inspect user behavior and/or problems themselves.
• Prioritize your product roadmap towards the highest-ROI business and end-user goals, and consistently delivers quantifiable impacts that are within projected value estimates.
• Apply understanding of technical fundamentals across multiple product and/or business domains to anticipate ways to mitigate risk and maximize value.
• Proactively recognize when processes or goals are misaligned with the highest value outcomes, and takes corrective actions autonomously.
• Optimize speed-to-value by making complex product decisions with minimal oversight, acting as the primary product leader accountable for decision-making, quality-control, and results delivery for your product area.
• Drive iterative improvement at all levels of the agile software development lifecycle, including sprint ceremonies, story writing, backlog prioritization, roll-out and launch, continuous monitoring, and program management.
• Participates in evaluating Product, Engineering, and Design talent as part of hiring panels.
• Regular meetings with up to one direct report, providing coaching, feedback, and guidance (1x1s, development meetings, problem-solving sessions, formal performance summaries).
• Builds high-trust relationships with senior leaders across the business and serves as a trusted advisor and thought partner.
• Creates alignment around shared objectives and facilitates adoption of enabling work among other teams; monitors progress and proactively addresses misalignment.
• Evangelizes a compelling vision for their product domain to educate and inspire buy-in across the organization.
• Distills complex information across multiple domains into a synthesized, well-supported structure that informs and makes the case for action.
• Facilitates or leads large cross-functional meetings with senior stakeholders up to Director-level with minimal guidance.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.