What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Product Manager position at Kanor Systems?
Job Level: Senior Product Manager
Location: Hybrid, in office 2-3 days and as needed Bethesda ,MD
Duration: Now through December 2026 with possibility of extension
The Senior Manager for Ancillary Revenue Products is responsible for the analysis, planning, and coordination of technology activities for developing ancillary revenue products. This role will collaborate with Commerce, Hotel Operations, Digital, Loyalty business partners, a mix of internal Marriott technology teams, and 3rd party vendors to drive the successful delivery of technology solutions. This includes enterprise compliance, security, and technical due diligence projects. In addition, the role also includes working with multiple different SaaS Vendors that provide applications for supporting Tours and Activities, SPA, Golf, Table Management and Digital Dining operations.
The Senior Manager will perform the following activities:
- Coordinate and drive the cross-functional execution of key development activities with our 3rd party vendors, internal technology teams, and business partners
- Partner with Enterprise Architecture teams to create Business/ Solution Architecture for new applications and integrations
- Define, document and socialize product requirements - document business and technical use cases, Acceptance Criteria, workflows, and wireframes to support and lead development of new functionality, new solutions through service provider and vendor teams.
- Coordinate and lead Quality Engineering activities and acceptance of system changes between vendors and MI business partners
- Coordinate with support teams for incident resolution, Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and prioritize defect fixes, Root Cause remediation in the product backlog.
- Evaluate product improvements and new technical solutions to align with business objectives
Required:
- 7 years' experience in information technology application design or development projects
- Undergraduate degree
- Demonstrated project leadership and management skills, including a demonstrated ability to lead multi-functional project teams and 3rd party vendors to deliver concrete actions and results
- Demonstrated ability to deliver results under challenging conditions, particularly when faced with complexity, ambiguity, and aggressive timelines
- Demonstrated ability to assess customer needs, creatively approach solutions, and decide and influence appropriate courses of action
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native microservices, API development, and event-driven architectures.
- Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines, DevOps tools (Git, JIRA, Jenkins, Dynatrace), and containerization.
- Experience with JIRA and Confluence
- Strong project management skills (PMI certification a plus)
- Strong process management, negotiating, influencing, and problem-resolution skills
- Experience completing information technology cost/resource estimates to implement and support solutions
- Excellent communicator, both written and spoken
- Experience with Agile Development methodology and tools (CSPO or CSM certification a plus)
- Experience in using AI tools for Requirements documentation and Testing
Preferred:
- Experience working with 3rd party vendors and service providers
- Familiarity with Golf, SPA operations, technology and or marketing