Product Management Manager - Orange Apron Media

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and coach a team of 4 Product Managers to grow into world-class product leaders.
• Define the strategic context for a group of connected products, ensuring alignment with overall company strategy and OKRs.
• Translate business goals and end user needs into product strategy and communicate priorities to the team and stakeholders.
• Meet with users and stakeholders to understand processes, pain points, and system waste to improve user experience.
• Create epics to drive improvements to product vision, features, and back-end systems, adjusting for new business models.
• Determine the value of anticipated product updates and identify goals, metrics, and analytics to measure product performance.
• Review recommended solutions and work of the product team to ensure alignment with priorities.
• Remove roadblocks to ensure timely delivery of products meeting strategic, financial, and technical goals.
• Prioritize incoming requests from business partners and stakeholders considering business strategy, product vision, and user needs.
• Provide regular updates to leadership on product progress.
• Provide leadership, mentoring, and coaching to Product Managers.
• Attract, retain, and develop top talent for a high-performing Product Management team.
• Conduct performance reviews and support individual development plans.
• Foster collaboration with engineering, UX, and other teams to drive value and resolve impediments.
• Advocate for end users and stakeholders by understanding user needs and product impact.
• Manage cross-functional team and stakeholder expectations, guiding prioritization based on benefits and user experience.
• Guide junior team members in strategy, analysis, and execution tasks.
• Participate in learning activities around modern software design and development practices.

Requirements

• Must be eighteen years of age or older and legally permitted to work in the United States.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience.
• Proficiency in working as a Product Manager in a modern software development enterprise environment and overseeing multiple products.
• Proficiency in modern software development practices and agile methodologies, including XP principles such as paired programming, test-driven development, and continuous deployment.
• Experience working in a fast-paced, fluid environment with shifting priorities.
• Ability to communicate effectively and influence across organizational levels.
• Experience collaborating within cross-functional, modern software design and development teams.
• Proficiency in creating, prioritizing, and accepting epics and user stories.
• Experience conducting user research and testing to understand needs.
• Ability to identify goals, metrics, and analytics to measure product value.
• Experience conducting competitive research and analysis.
• Experience guiding junior team members in Product Management fundamentals.
• Proficiency in balancing workloads across teams.
• Active listening skills and ability to manage stakeholder expectations.

Nice to Have

• Proficiency in working as a Product Manager in a modern software development based enterprise environment and overseeing multiple products.
• Proficiency in modern software development practices and agile methodologies, specifically XP principles.
• Experience conducting user research and testing.
• Experience guiding junior team members.
• Proficiency in active listening and communicating at all organizational levels.
• Experience managing and growing team members.

Qualifications

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a related field.