Responsibilities:
- Seeks to empathize with and understand the end user deeply and use that knowledge to determine the fastest path to deliver value
- 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
- Works with user research and testing team to formulate, test and refine assumptions and hypotheses through user research and testing
- Creates, prioritizes and accepts user stories; incorporate them into release planning
- Makes product decisions that drive value on a daily basis
- Identifies and considers pros, cons, issues, obstacles, dependencies and value associated with features and enhancements
- Participates in and leads standups, iteration planning sessions, product demo, and retrospectives
- Condenses complex technical concepts into non-technical language for stakeholders
- Fosters collaboration with team members (Engineering, UX, etc.) to drive value and identify and resolve impediments
- Acts as a proponent of modern agile development practices
- Advocates for the end user and stakeholder by becoming associated with the product, empathizing with and understanding user needs
- Works with the product team to continuously assess progress, disseminate lessons learned, and understand next steps
- Manages cross functional team and stakeholder expectations to execute on product strategy and provides education to requestors to determine prioritization based on tangible benefits and/or user experience
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree
- 5 years of experience working in digital / agile product management
- 3 years of experience translating customer needs into product features and user interface design to deliver an unparalleled customer experience
- Significant experience working with design and engineering - managed full stack teams
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or Engineering
- MBA or Masters degree
- 8 years of experience translating business strategy and analysis into consumer facing digital products