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Job#: 3027463
Job Description:
Apex Systems is a world class technology services business that incorporates industry or insights and experience to deliver solutions that fulfill our clients' digital visions.
Apex has an opportunity for an Product Manager - Digital CX. For applicants who are interested in this opportunity, send your updated resume to .
Here are the details:
Position: Product Manager - Digital CX
Location: Must be local to Acton, MA or San Diego, CA
Project Duration: 8 months
Rate: Negotiable Based on Experience
Job Description
Must be local to Acton, MA or San Diego, CA
Position Overview:
We are looking for a self-motivated, experienced Product Manager to join our client's Digital CX Product Management Customer Experience team responsible for developing new products and optimizing existing capabilities throughout the customer journey. This successful leader will have experience leading end-to-end product management for global digital products, with the ability to translate business goals into high-impact product initiatives. Working in an Agile environment, in collaboration with a cross-functional team, this person will be responsible for defining and executing the Product roadmap for our digital customer experience offerings and ensuring the Backlog is properly prioritized, defined and executed for the team. They'll achieve this by cultivating empowered, high-impact teams, and guiding teams through the full product development lifecycle, providing strong cross-functional leadership.
Responsibilities
Cultivate deep understanding of customer needs, competitive dynamics, and market opportunities.
Develop and articulate a clear vision for products and lead execution of the integrated roadmap to achieve enterprise and franchise level goals
Define integrated release targets & scope, value proposition & delivery to drive growth, provide customers with cadence of new innovations, and maximize return on investment
Collaborate with other product managers to establish processes and best practices for Product Management and Product Owners at our client.
Collaborate on franchise roadmap and priorities in relation to enterprise-wide strategies
Works closely with the Sr. Product Manager and business stakeholders to define and prioritize the team's feature backlog
Works closely with the Product Marketing Manager to understand the our client's customer journey and product launch strategies that will impact business processes across the customer journey
Develops process flows to illustrate the impact on operations because of the new or improved capabilities
Defines features with acceptance criteria, dependencies, assumptions, risks, and success metrics
Works closely with technical architects to obtain high-level work estimation (t-shirt size) and solution designs for release planning, ensuring consistency across all work within delivery teams
Maintains the conceptual and technical integrity of the features for the team
Provides input into release timelines and investigates alternate paths forward on potential timing options
Drives scope tradeoff evaluations on feature implementation
Participates in usability studies to bring voice of the customer on a feature to the team
Supports the Sr. Product Manager with business case development (both cost and value) for new opportunities and product improvements
Serves as 1st escalation point for Product Owners of delivery teams (questions on feature refinement, solution options, and/or in sprint tradeoffs
Required Leadership Skills & Behaviors
A passionate, inspirational leader who leads with an enterprise mindset, challenges the status quo, and can align the organization behind a clear vision and strategy
Has strong emotional intelligence and ability to engage and lead others through change to advance new ways of working
Experience guiding high performance teams, driving accountability, empowerment, customer centricity and collaboration across functions and teams.
Required Skills And Competencies
Customer-obsessed mindset with ability to translate customer insight into product vision and lead execution to achieve franchise goals
Strong business acumen and passion for delivering impact by executing world-changing technologies
Strong ability to influence, interact, and lead globally
Strong cross-functional leader, able to bring out the best in cross-functional colleagues to guide swift, effective trade-offs and decision-making
Ability to translate business cases into a roadmap informed by technical constraints, balancing technical with desired business outcomes
Enterprise mindset (understands impact of their decision on other functions and products)
Ability to Lead without Authority
Ability to guide difficult cross functional decisions and achieve value-maximizing outcomes
Detail oriented, with effective verbal and written communication skills
Able to work independently with minimum supervision
Able to organize and judge multiple priorities
Experience in the Medical Device industry is a plus
Familiarity with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is a plus
Education And Experience
Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.
Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6 months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.
Job#: 3027463
Job Description:
Apex Systems is a world class technology services business that incorporates industry or insights and experience to deliver solutions that fulfill our clients' digital visions.
Apex has an opportunity for an Product Manager - Digital CX. For applicants who are interested in this opportunity, send your updated resume to .
Here are the details:
Position: Product Manager - Digital CX
Location: Must be local to Acton, MA or San Diego, CA
Project Duration: 8 months
Rate: Negotiable Based on Experience
Job Description
Must be local to Acton, MA or San Diego, CA
Position Overview:
We are looking for a self-motivated, experienced Product Manager to join our client's Digital CX Product Management Customer Experience team responsible for developing new products and optimizing existing capabilities throughout the customer journey. This successful leader will have experience leading end-to-end product management for global digital products, with the ability to translate business goals into high-impact product initiatives. Working in an Agile environment, in collaboration with a cross-functional team, this person will be responsible for defining and executing the Product roadmap for our digital customer experience offerings and ensuring the Backlog is properly prioritized, defined and executed for the team. They'll achieve this by cultivating empowered, high-impact teams, and guiding teams through the full product development lifecycle, providing strong cross-functional leadership.
Responsibilities
Cultivate deep understanding of customer needs, competitive dynamics, and market opportunities.
Develop and articulate a clear vision for products and lead execution of the integrated roadmap to achieve enterprise and franchise level goals
Define integrated release targets & scope, value proposition & delivery to drive growth, provide customers with cadence of new innovations, and maximize return on investment
Collaborate with other product managers to establish processes and best practices for Product Management and Product Owners at our client.
Collaborate on franchise roadmap and priorities in relation to enterprise-wide strategies
Works closely with the Sr. Product Manager and business stakeholders to define and prioritize the team's feature backlog
Works closely with the Product Marketing Manager to understand the our client's customer journey and product launch strategies that will impact business processes across the customer journey
Develops process flows to illustrate the impact on operations because of the new or improved capabilities
Defines features with acceptance criteria, dependencies, assumptions, risks, and success metrics
Works closely with technical architects to obtain high-level work estimation (t-shirt size) and solution designs for release planning, ensuring consistency across all work within delivery teams
Maintains the conceptual and technical integrity of the features for the team
Provides input into release timelines and investigates alternate paths forward on potential timing options
Drives scope tradeoff evaluations on feature implementation
Participates in usability studies to bring voice of the customer on a feature to the team
Supports the Sr. Product Manager with business case development (both cost and value) for new opportunities and product improvements
Serves as 1st escalation point for Product Owners of delivery teams (questions on feature refinement, solution options, and/or in sprint tradeoffs
Required Leadership Skills & Behaviors
A passionate, inspirational leader who leads with an enterprise mindset, challenges the status quo, and can align the organization behind a clear vision and strategy
Has strong emotional intelligence and ability to engage and lead others through change to advance new ways of working
Experience guiding high performance teams, driving accountability, empowerment, customer centricity and collaboration across functions and teams.
Required Skills And Competencies
Customer-obsessed mindset with ability to translate customer insight into product vision and lead execution to achieve franchise goals
Strong business acumen and passion for delivering impact by executing world-changing technologies
Strong ability to influence, interact, and lead globally
Strong cross-functional leader, able to bring out the best in cross-functional colleagues to guide swift, effective trade-offs and decision-making
Ability to translate business cases into a roadmap informed by technical constraints, balancing technical with desired business outcomes
Enterprise mindset (understands impact of their decision on other functions and products)
Ability to Lead without Authority
Ability to guide difficult cross functional decisions and achieve value-maximizing outcomes
Detail oriented, with effective verbal and written communication skills
Able to work independently with minimum supervision
Able to organize and judge multiple priorities
Experience in the Medical Device industry is a plus
Familiarity with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is a plus
Education And Experience
- Bachelor's degree and 5 years of relevant work experience.
- 5 years of experience using Agile methodologies, related to Product Owner & Product Manager roles.
- Knowledgeable of IT systems development strongly preferred
- Familiarity with Web and CRM platforms strongly preferred
- Demonstrates strong communication skills with audiences with various levels of technical background.
- Experience in digital customer experience/success is preferred
- Demonstrated flexibility and ability to function in a fast-paced, growth industry and work environment
- Strong problem-solving skills for complex business challenges.
- Passion to continuously improve processes and practices.
Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.
Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6 months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.