Position: Product Manager
Location: Irving, TX
Term: 12 months
Day-to-Day Responsibilities:
Location: Irving, TX
Term: 12 months
Day-to-Day Responsibilities:
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40% Strategy & Planning
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Seeks to empathize with and understand the end user deeply and use that knowledge to determine the fastest path to deliver value.
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Translates business goals and end user needs into product strategy.
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Communicates direction and product priorities to the development team, other matrixed teams, and third-party partners.
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Identifies goals, metrics, and analytics to determine product value.
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Continually makes recommendations and refinements to the product backlog based on learnings.
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Manages and grooms the product backlog; makes future decisions based on the value that will be delivered.
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Monitors research as well as the competitive landscape to recommend the best solutions and ensure that products remain or become best in class.
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Ensures that product directions balance both the user needs and business goals of driving sales, improving efficiency, and enhancing customer satisfaction.
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40% Delivery & Execution
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Works with user research and testing team to formulate, test and refine assumptions and hypotheses through user research and testing.
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Creates, prioritizes, and accepts user stories.
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Incorporate them into release planning.
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Makes product decisions that drive value daily.
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Identifies and considers pros, cons, issues, obstacles, dependencies, and value associated with features and enhancements.
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Participates in and leads standups, iteration planning sessions, product demo, and retrospectives.
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Condenses complex technical concepts into non-technical language for stakeholders.
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20% Team & Stakeholder
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Fosters collaboration with team members (Engineering, UX, etc.) to drive value and identify and resolve impediments.
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Acts as a proponent of modern agile development practices.
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Advocates for the end user and stakeholder by becoming associated with the product, empathizing with and understanding user needs.
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Works with the product team to continuously assess progress, disseminate lessons learned, and understand next steps.
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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.
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Guides more junior team members in strategy, alignment, analysis, and execution tasks.
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Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern agile design and development core practices (communities of practice).
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Participates in talent acquisition, development, and retention activities in support of team.
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Is this a good fit? (Requirements):
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Bachelor’s Degree.
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5 years of experience working in Digital / Agile product management.
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3 years of experience translating customer needs into product features and user interface design to deliver an unparalleled customer experience.
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Significant experience working with design and engineering - managed full stack teams.
Even better if you have:
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Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
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MBA or master’s degree.
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8 years of experience translating business strategy and analysis into consumer facing digital products.