Position: Senior Product Manager
Job Location: 10790 Parkridge Blvd, Suite 200, Reston, VA 20191
Duties: Drives the product discovery process by collaborating with the Business, User Experience, and Engineering Teams during discovery to assess value, usability, and feasibility of product features; specifying, prioritizing, and communicating high level and detailed product specifications; and using written specifications, business rules, flows, cases and user experience generated deliverables (for example, prototypes, wireframes, design and copy documents). Develops and champions a product vision, strategy, and roadmap for a specific product within a product area in support of corporate goals and objectives by using customer and market research, customer and user feedback, customer usage, and competitive analysis to identify new product opportunities and enhancements; and working with multiple functions to build and evaluate business cases to support product investment decisions. Supports product implementation and deployment by engaging with Engineering and Project Management during implementation to answer questions and make scope trade off decisions; working closely with Marketing and the business to launch products and ensure their adoption; coordinating postlaunch activities to validate that the product works as designed and that acceptance testing was successful; managing the development of training materials; training and supporting users on new product features; managing close-loop feedback cycles to encompass customer and user comments and needs; and defining, tracking and improving key product metrics.
Minimum education and experience required: Master’s degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field plus 1 year of experience in product management or related experience OR Bachelor's degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field plus 4 years of experience in product management or related experience.
Skills required: Must have experience with: Owning the product roadmap and influencing stakeholders while driving the product discovery process; Working closely with the Engineering manager to define Sprint Goals and definition of done for each iteration or sprint in the release cycles; Supporting product implementation and deployment by engaging with UX designers, Engineering and Project Management during implementation to answer questions and make scope trade off decisions and working closely with business to launch products and ensure their adoption; Defining, tracking and improving product vision, key product metrics and Product business value for various financial products; Coordinating post-launch activities to validate that the product works as designed and that acceptance testing was successful; Providing walkthroughs of PRDs using Confluence pages, update epics and jira tickets on as needed basis and review mockups for each intake request; Conducting Beta testing and gathering customer feedback through Discovery and workshops to provide best product solution; Developing and enhancing products, including managing product roadmaps, aligning business and technical needs, analyzing customer and product data, turning customer insights into actionable initiatives, determining rollout strategy, and managing risks; Building collaborative relationships with key partners to build roadmaps and work closely with engineering to strike a balance between features and tech debt; Coordinating with Engineering stakeholders and Program managers to provide progress, status updates on day-to-day basis; and Managing the development of training materials, training and supporting users on new product features, and managing close-loop feedback cycles to encompass customer and user comments and needs. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.
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