The Sr. Product Manager is responsible for assessing market needs and inspiring cross-functional product teams to find the fastest way to achieve value around those needs. The role focuses on delivering business value to drive sales, improve efficiency, and improve customer satisfaction through the production of quality products.
Requirements
- Experience working as a Product Manager in a modern software development based enterprise environment
- Experience with modern software development product management practices and agile methodologies, specifically the extreme programming (XP) principles of paired programming, test driven development, and continuous deployment
- Proficiency in creating, prioritizing and accepting user stories
- Proficiency in conducting user research and testing to understand needs
- Proficiency in identifying goals, metrics and analytics to measure product value
- Proficiency in conducting competitive research and analysis
- Experience guiding more junior team members through Product Management fundamentals in a professional setting
Responsibilities
- Translates business goals and end user needs into product strategy; communicates direction and product priorities to the development team, other matrixed teams, and third-party partners
- Identifies goals, metrics and analytics to determine product value; continually makes recommendations and refinements to the product backlog based on learnings
- Manages and grooms the product backlog; makes future decisions based on the value that will be delivered
- Monitors research as well as the competitive landscape to recommend the best solutions and ensure that products remain or become best in class
- Ensures that product directions balance both the user needs and business goals of driving sales, improving efficiency and enhancing customer satisfaction
- Formulates, tests and refines assumptions and hypotheses through user research and testing
- Creates, prioritizes and accepts user stories; incorporate them into release planning
Other
- Must be eighteen years of age or older.
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
- Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.
- The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
- 3-6 years of relevant work experience
