What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical Product Manager position at Prodware Solutions?
Job Tite: Product Manager
Position: Hybrid - Des Moines, IA.
Duration: 1 Years Contract
Note:
Need local candidates to Iowa who can travel 2-3 Days onsite to the client.
Job Description:
Qualifications:
2 years of business, technology, or product management experience; or equivalent demonstrated through the following: work experience, training, military experience, or education.
• Prior experience in a product environment and exposure to the Product Manager role.
• Experience with strategic thinking and decision making in a professional context.
• Experience with managing multiple workloads and/or competing priorities in a professional context.
• Experience with stakeholder and relationship management in a professional context.
• Demonstrated experience leading, influencing, and negotiating in a professional team environment.
• Demonstrated experience leveraging diverse perspectives and using data to inform action.
• 1 year working in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment with engineering teams and stakeholders
Responsibilities:
Product Strategy:
• Partners with a Product Manager or Senior Product Manager to understand the product strategy for a lower complexity / sensitivity product.
• Develops understanding of product strategy in context of the enterprise and business strategies.
• Responsible for executing against the strategy as part of a product team(s) 5%
Product Discovery:
• Accountable for understanding and defining key business outcomes and requirements for their product.
• In partnership with PM or Senior PM, identifies opportunities/problems to solve and articulates hypotheses.
• Leads the product team (design, engineering, and various business roles) in ideating and running experiments.
• Executes experiments as part of a product team (in partnership with design, engineering, and various business roles).
• Assesses value of experiments, collaborates to draw out insights, and shares learnings with key partners and stakeholders. Based on learnings, determines which work should be prioritized into the product.
• Accountable, with Product Manager or Senior Product Manager, for improving or maintaining an effective parallel discovery and delivery model.
Product Delivery:
• Is accountable for success of product delivery in collaboration with technology and non-technology partners.
• In partnership with other members of a team, work to remove impediments and manage dependencies that the team may face in the pursuit of value creation.
• Ensures the product team has the business, customer, user, and stakeholder context required to solve problems effectively and efficiently.
• Collaborates with team to break down work in a manner which frequently releases valuable product changes.
• Typically plays the role of product owner for SCRUM teams, collaborating on story creation and refinement, definition and success criteria, prioritization, and accepts work as done.
• Participate in team/agile ceremonies (effective structure & routines).
• Partner with team members to deliver value with quality.
• Communicates product releases to stakeholders & partners.
Product Assessment:
• Consults with Product Manager or Sr. Product Manager to ensure every goal-aligned unit of value created by the team(s) is measurable and can show progress towards product goals.
• Monitors and communicates product health, impact of product releases, and progress against product goals.
• Responsible for assessment practices of a team(s).
• Responsible and accountable for meeting product outcomes and if necessary, making enhancements to the go to market strategy, product, etc. to meet them. 10%
Stakeholder Management and Communication:
• Communicates discovery and delivery priorities, results of experiments, quantifiable progress to goals, and delivery health of their product with stakeholders.
• Communicates effectively as part of the product management team supporting a broader product family or portfolio.
• Identifies opportunities to improve the product management practice within their sphere of responsibility; and works as part of the product management team to continuously improve.