Product Manager II – Contract Talent

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Lead the discovery process to identify business challenges, user requirements, limitations, and criteria for success.

• Collaborate with stakeholders, Business Systems Analysts, platform owners, IT, vendors, and functional partners to develop user-centered solutions.

• Convert insights into product solutions that are in line with the product strategy.

• Present recommendations, justification, anticipated outcomes, priorities, and project scope.

• Identify usability issues, friction points, and trends in employee feedback, and suggest improvements.

• Oversee change readiness, deployment activities, release planning, communications, training, and post-launch stabilization.

• Develop enablement materials such as release notes, job aids, and in-application guidance.

• Establish and monitor metrics for adoption and value realization.

• Foster digital adoption through in-app guidance, enablement resources, feedback collection, and enhancements post-launch.

• Lead regional requirements, localization, translation, testing, user acceptance testing (UAT), and readiness for release.

• Implement the product roadmap and prioritize tasks for assigned products or modules.

• Define and uphold measures of product success, tracking adoption, performance, and user outcomes.

• Assess vendors and technology landscapes, making recommendations for improvements.

• Make daily trade-off decisions while escalating enterprise impacts and risks as necessary.

• Manage intake processes, demand prioritization, capacity planning, and governance of the roadmap.

• Guide the definition of product intent, user stories, and acceptance criteria.

• Coordinate cross-functional delivery, dependencies, risks, and sequencing of releases.

• Collaborate with vendor and technical teams to ensure the solutions are scalable and supportable.

• Maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs), product standards, implementation guidelines, and governance documentation.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in business, HR, information systems, or a related field.

• 3–5 years of experience in product management, SaaS/platform management, digital experience, or related technology delivery roles.

• Proficiency in Agile/Scrum methodology is mandatory.

• HR certifications or ITIL fundamentals are advantageous.

• Ability to influence without authority.

• Strong stakeholder management skills.

• Experience in prioritization and trade-off management.

• Structured communication skills.

• Knowledge of product analytics.

• Familiarity with backlog management tools.

• Experience in writing requirements/user stories.

• Understanding of platforms and integrations.

• Successful completion of a background check is required as a condition of employment.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance.

• Life and disability insurance.

• Eligibility to enroll in the company 401(k) plan.