This position will work in lockstep with analytics product management, functional executive stakeholders, and data architecture teams acting as a product manager for the Quality, EHS, and Lean organization to create a clear strategic direction that will be delivered by the product development team. You will direct the team with a clear and descriptive set of requirements and deliver product features and functions by balancing user needs with business strategy, while minimizing defects and technical debt. This role will also be accountable for ensuring smooth monthly closing activities & resolution of defects within SLA.
This team operates following Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and the product manager will be responsible for collecting the inputs necessary to plan a successful PI each quarter.Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
• Demonstrates excelling business acumen, knows latest industry trends and is looked at as an internal expert on the product as well as the associated competitive landscape.
• Interacts with customers/stakeholders in VOC requirements-gathering, fine tuning, and obtaining product feedback.
• Works with cross-functional teams to deliver features and significant products.
• Possesses a deep understanding of the technology stack and impact on final product.
• Routinely collaborates with UX in design decisions. Conducts customer and stakeholder interviews and elaborates on personas.
• Demonstrate superior persuasion and influencing skills that ensure alignment between customer, product manager and engineering teams.
• Owns the releases and sprint backlogs short-term roadmap for MVPs and quarterly releases.
• Owns and manages the backlog; continuously orders and prioritizes to ensure that 1-2 sprints/iterations of backlog are always ready.
• Prioritizes continuously in accordance with the understanding and validation of customer problems and needs.
• Demonstrates strategic level skills in problem decomposition and ability to navigate through ambiguity.
• Engages frequently (50% of the time) with the development team; facilitates discussions, provides clarification, story acceptance and refinement, testing and validation; contributes to design activities and decisions.
• Translates unstructured or ambiguous work requests into actionable user stories and work unit.
• Partners with Development Leadership/Service Owners to ensure healthy development process.
• Mentors junior team members.
• Expert in Agile Methodology.
Education Qualification
For roles outside USA:
Bachelor's Degree in with advanced experience.
For roles in USA:Bachelor's Degree in with minimum years of 6 years experience
Desired Characteristics
Technical Expertise:
•Strong Business Analysis skills and ability to translate requirements into features and user stories
•Experience working in Agile / SAFE team and with technologies like Tableau and Data Lake (Databricks, Greenplum, SQL)
•Expert proficiency in tools like ADO, SmartSheet, Miro, Excel, etc.
•Phenomenal communication and presentation skills w/ ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical individuals
Business Acumen:
•Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technologies and approaches to solving problems
•Skilled in breaking down problems and estimating efforts
•Basic understanding of supply chain functions
•Has the ability to propose, analyze impact and recommend appropriate technology choices
•Skilled in negotiation to align stakeholders and communicate a single synthesized perspective to the product development team
•Balances value propositions from competing stakeholders
•Demonstrates knowledge of technologies in the market to actively participate in buy vs build recommendations, drive market timing decisions and scope of MVPs
Leadership:
•Ability to take ownership of the product and stakeholder relationships to drive regular feature releases
•Delivers while mentoring and helping junior team members
•Ensures understanding of issues and presents clear rationale
•Identifies misalignments with goals, objectives, and work direction against the organizational strategy
•Makes suggestions to course correct or escalates appropriately
•Continuously measures deliverables of self and team against commitments
•Effectively balances multiple, different and/or competing objectives
Personal Attributes:
•Excellent oral and written communication skills, strong interpersonal skills, detail-oriented
•Effective team building and problem-solving abilities; Persists to completion, especially in the face of overwhelming odds and setbacks
•Pushes self for results; pushes others for results through team spirit and exhibiting role model behavior
Note
Note:
To comply with US immigration and other legal requirements, it is necessary to specify the minimum number of years' experience required for any role based within the USA. For roles outside of the USA, to ensure compliance with applicable legislation, the JDs should focus on the substantive level of experience required for the role and a minimum number of years should NOT be used.
This Job Description is intended to provide a high level guide to the role. However, it is not intended to amend or otherwise restrict/expand the duties required from each individual employee as set out in their respective employment contract and/or as otherwise agreed between an employee and their manager.
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
