Description
The Lead Product Manager will be responsible for product strategy, concept development, and defining and executing initiatives in collaboration with key stakeholders and partners. The role will understand business and technical capabilities, identify gaps, and deliver product roadmaps for new capabilities.
Responsibilities:
- Lead creation of technical specifications and user stories to enable system modification or development
- Work with project teams, business stakeholders, and other partners to align roadmaps and strategy, understand business needs, define requirements, guide work, schedule releases, validate stakeholder responses, and provide feedback
- Ensure requirements are aligned to business goals and refined to a sufficient level of detail
- Identify high-level solution options for the business
- Review and sign off on solution designs, ensuring business requirements are verified, validated, and delivered
- Combine business requirements into prioritized backlog grouped into project iterations
- Manage scope and traceability of requirements throughout the project lifecycle
- Participate in functional design, construction, and testing
- Ensure benefits, impact, and release of all changes are tracked and managed
- Provide technical guidance and oversight
- Lead complex analysis and provide guidance and oversight
- Develop and maintain relationships with business, vendor, and technology stakeholders
- Provide thought leadership and assert influence by driving complex projects to completion effectively and efficiently
- Provide subject matter expertise on the business, associated processes, and systems
- Drive Agile standups, backlog grooming, and planning
- Recommend process and technology improvements to increase effectiveness
- Manage project interdependencies in support of business strategies, roadmaps, and financial commitments
- Escalate issues and recommend solutions
- Identify product improvement opportunities
- Mentor team members on application of best practices and standards
- Manage product roadmap and prioritize initiatives relative to business needs
- Work with the business to determine the real issue that needs to be solved or the opportunity to do things differently
- Develop highly complex business cases to ensure benefits align to strategic and tactical business objectives
- Support the business in business, technical, and financial feasibility assessments
- Manage partner expectations, scope, and budget discussions
- Provide advice and recommendations on emerging trends
- Manage business engagement and stakeholder management activities for large or complex projects
- Assist in identifying and managing risks, issues, and dependencies
Required Qualifications & Skills:
- 7+ years of product management or equivalent experience driving product strategy and execution with a technical focus
- Basic knowledge of Public Cloud Technologies like AWS
- Proven experience leading teams within an agile, collaborative environment
- Demonstrated ability to identify, understand, and drive resolution of complex critical issues
- Excellent analytical, written, and verbal communication skills
- Previous experience with JIRA, Smartsheets, or similar tools
- Demonstrated success in launching and scaling products
- Strong technical knowledge with experience leading large initiatives that span several teams and functional areas
- Proven ability to translate customer and business needs through requirements and user stories
- Strong communicator with proven ability to bring clarity and direction through written and verbal communication skills
- Data and hypothesis-driven aptitude
Nice to Have:
- Experience with back-end applications
- Experience within hospitality and/or technology industries
- Experienced in Microsoft Office applications
- Familiarity with collaboration tools such as Jira, Smartsheet, and Confluence
- Familiarity with design principles and best practices
Onsite requirements/expectations:
- 3-4 days in office