WGU is looking for a Principal Software Product Manager to develop strategic product roadmaps that ensure a holistic end-to-end user experience, solve challenging problems, and drive business goals and user needs.
Requirements
- 10 years of demonstrated experience working as a Software Product Manager, Product Owner, or Group Product Manager, with at least 3 years of those as a Senior or Group Product Manager
- Professional Product Certification (e.g. Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Pragmatic Marketing)
- Experience working in Agile environments
- Experience managing multiple types of problems at the same time
- Breadth and dept in product discovery techniques and knows when to use what
- Ability to evaluate the impact of trade-off decisions to ensure we are delivering the greatest value to the customer at the right time.
- Ability to coordinate and seek opportunities to align and partner with other product teams throughout the organization.
Responsibilities
- Develop strategic product roadmaps that ensure a holistic end-to-end user experience.
- Build business cases, articulate strategy, and evangelize the product vision to stakeholders and cross-functional team members.
- Measure and report on the efficacy of initiatives and develop action plans accordingly.
- Make hard, high-stakes trade-offs between features, choosing those that are most likely to ensure that both business goals and user needs are met.
- Owns the most difficult products/strategies that span multiple product domains and requires high levels of coordination and collaboration.
- Works closely with a cross-functional team of stakeholders, end-users, engineers, UX designers, and product leaders to understand the problems to solve, inform the product vision, and define requirements.
- Designs experiments to test customer tradeoffs – between user experience, technology constraints, and business value.
Other
- Bachelor's Degree in a related field
- Product evangelist internally and externally
- Ability to reimagine a product space and bring it to life
- Understand and guides thinking about monetization of product opportunities
- Future-oriented and can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods
