Product Manager – New Product Development

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

📋 Description

• Manage the entire product backlog from beginning to end.

• Create user stories and acceptance criteria while ensuring a minimum of two sprints of prepared work.

• Conduct product discovery alongside UX and engineering through user interviews, usability testing, prototypes, and experiments.

• Collaborate with engineers and designers during daily stand-ups, reviews, and story acceptance sessions.

• Prioritize tasks based on user value and business outcomes, making decisions on scope, sequencing, and trade-offs.

• Establish success metrics with client sponsors and evaluate adoption, task success, conversion rates, or satisfaction post-releases.

• Engage in discussions regarding APIs, data, and integration trade-offs with engineers and architects.

• Extract and analyze product data.

• Plan and schedule regular CI/CD releases, draft release notes, and coordinate rollouts.

• Convert client objectives into a product vision and a near-term roadmap.

• Take part in Sprint Planning, Reviews, Retrospectives, PI Planning, and other SAFe events.

• Collaborate with the Scrum Master to enhance flow and predictability.

• Act as the product representative to client sponsors through demos, touchpoints, steering committees, and discovery workshops.

• Provide a product baseline by day 30 and finalize an agreed roadmap with measurable outcome targets by day 90.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.

• A minimum of five years of direct experience as a Product Manager or Product Owner within software or application development teams.

• Proven track record of managing product backlogs and crafting user stories and acceptance criteria.

• Recent experience (within the last five years) at a product-focused technology company or in the digital or product practice of a premier consulting firm.

• Experience in leading product discovery initiatives with UX and design, including user interviews, usability testing, and prototyping.

• Familiarity with teams that frequently release products using CI/CD and track outcome and flow metrics.

• Technical proficiency with APIs, data models, and system architectures.

• Ability to independently analyze product data using SQL or analytics tools.

• Strong skills in Jira and Confluence.

• Experience using Figma or similar design platforms.

• Experience working within Scrum and SAFe or another scaled Agile framework, including PI Planning.

• Excellent communication skills that are polished, concise, and suitable for executive audiences, with a focus on delivering answers.

• At least three years of experience in a client-facing role, whether in consulting, professional services, or directly with business stakeholders.

• Must reside in and be authorized to work in the United States for the entire duration of the engagement.

🏝️ Benefits

• Onboarding and training provided during the initial weeks.

• Compliance training offered.

• Opportunity to engage with modern cloud-native applications on the Google Cloud Platform.