WGU is looking to hire a Senior Software Product Manager to delight users while delivering value to the business by developing strategic product roadmaps, building business cases, articulating strategy, and evangelizing product vision to stakeholders and cross-functional team members.
Requirements
- 5+ years of demonstrated experience working as a Software Product Manager or Product Owner
- Experience working in Agile environments
- Demonstrates expertise in a variety of product discovery techniques
- Ability to assess product health and use data to inform prioritization decisions, to ensure product quality, and service levels, and meet defined goals and success metrics
- Experience in Education Technology
Responsibilities
- Works closely with 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.
- Becomes the expert of their product, demonstrating mastery of the current platform including success metrics, product health, leading and lagging indicators, and enterprise data, with an understanding of gaps that inform their near-term product roadmap and contribute to long-term strategy.
- Creates, manages, and regularly presents a strategic roadmap to both stakeholders and delivery teams.
- Gathers feedback about the product capabilities needed using interviews, conducting focus groups, instrumenting surveys, partnering with UX on usability sessions, reviewing online communities and working with internal tech teams.
- Ensures product quality by testing software features to ensure they satisfy the acceptance criteria and works with stakeholders and end users to coordinate user acceptance testing activities.
- Effectively uses data and insights provided by researchers and analysts to distill clarity from ambiguity and guide decisions regarding outcome selection and prioritization.
- Crafts business cases, ROI analyses, epics, stories, and manages prioritization across large projects and small/medium programs.
Other
- Individual contributor role for experienced product individuals who are passionate about delighting users while delivering value to the business.
- Collaborate with a cross-functional team and product peers to 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 your 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.
