Jenzabar

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Product Manager IV

Full TimeRemoteTeam 501-1,000Since 1998H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

48 days ago

Salary

$70K - $84K / year

Bachelor Degree6 yrs expEnglishSQL

Job Description

• Define and clearly communicate vision, strategy, and roadmap for the product. • Evangelize to both internal and external constituents ensuring a strong connection to the product. • Balance module priorities with overall PD Team and Corporate goals. • Provide leadership to project development team consisting of UX, QA, Dev, Doc, DB throughout the development process. • Accountable for the creation and integrity of the product backlog. • Leads grooming of the product backlog. • Gather market requirements and product feedback from both internal and external Stakeholders including cultivating and developing a Product Advisory Group comprised of key client constituents. • Develop product area Epic, Feature and User Stories that operationalize product vision. • Work closely with User Experience to ensure that final product designs clearly execute the vision. • Coordinate the development of personas with UX Designer to ensure that Stakeholders clearly understand the users & user stories. • Show proficient communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written. • Write and maintain functional requirement documents, detailing descriptions of user needs and necessary acceptance criteria to ensure efficient & precise development. • Work closely with Technical Documentation team to develop reference guides & online help. • Triage incoming outreach from internal/external constituents and process to correct resource as needed. • Complete Hotfix testing as warranted. • Attend company events, often providing “educational sessions” to staff and clients. • Share product vision, User Stories and RFP Support for Sales/Solutions Experts/Marketing. • Maintains Professional and Functional knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks and participating in professional societies. • Attend tradeshows/conferences representing corporate and product goals. • Support Developers responding to critical issues brought forward by Services and Support Analyst who need more technical support. • Maintain transparency regarding roadmap Epics/Features and confidently explain “why” to various stakeholders and constituents. • Skillful use of developed software functionality. • Coordinate with Stakeholders to develop a roll-out process that includes Support, Services, Sales/Account Managers, etc. • Coordinates with PD Management to support product direction. • Must be comfortable working autonomously without support at any time throughout a project. • Facilitate “Gemba Walks” to learn directly from the source, the user stories and usability of the software. • Demonstrate leadership across Product Development teams. • Provides leadership for other PM team members.

Job Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Education, Higher Education Administration, Computer Science or related field.
  • 6+ years’ experience working at an Accredited College/University.
  • 6+ years’ experience in a Product Manager role in a related field.
  • Demonstrate excellent organizational skills, including the ability to work effectively and independently in an atmosphere of multiple projects, across multiple products.
  • Must have excellent team building and problem-solving skills with comfortability working in a deadline driven environment.
  • Ability to be innovative, creative, strategic, analytical, and think outside the box when problem-solving.
  • Familiarity with Relational Database schema & Basic SQL queries are helpful.

Benefits

  • Medical Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • PTO
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Paid Holidays
  • Short Term Disability
  • Long Term Disability
  • 401K
  • Educational Assistance

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