Product Manager

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Understand and support prioritized Portfolio and Value Stream work by collaborating with IT Solution Architect, Business Architect, and Epic Owner to breakdown epics/capabilities into program features.
• Manage the delivery of business value through prioritized features and enablers working through the program Kanban and backlog to ensure adequate ready features are available.
• Lead and collaborate with Product Owners on understanding features to translate into stories for team backlogs within the Agile Release Train.
• Lead feature definition and refinement including establishing feature acceptance criteria.
• Understand customer and stakeholder needs, collaborating with business and technical architects to define solutions aligned with portfolio strategy.
• Work with system and solutions technology members to influence decision-making and sequencing of technological initiatives.
• Contribute to and help lead program planning by defining and presenting business intent, planned features, dependencies, and milestones.
• Lead the program increment demo to evaluate delivered business value and inspect and adapt the product or solution for the next increment.
• Collaborate with supporting Product Managers to determine cross-program impacts, interdependencies, and communication plans.
• Provide input and feedback to Epic Owners on new and existing epics with customer needs in mind.
• Communicate progress of solutions to stakeholders.
• Maintain epics and features in agile planning tooling solutions.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math, or four (4) years of relevant experience working as a project lead responsible for breaking down complex projects into solutionable deliverables.
• Four (4) years of demonstrated technical experience as a system user subject matter expert.
• At least one (1) year as a project lead responsible for solution breakdown across organization-wide projects or system design.
• Experience working in an Agile environment and applying SAFe preferred.
• Knowledge of Agile and Lean values/concepts and scaling with SAFe framework required.
• Demonstrated solutions-based thinking with the ability to break down complex concepts into understandable, smaller, and sequential deliverables.
• Strong influencing skills to guide leadership, Architects, Product Owners, Agile Release Trains, and stakeholders.
• Ability to tailor communications of complex concepts to all levels in an understandable manner.
• Technical knowledge as a system user subject matter expert preferred.
• Business acumen and understanding of larger company strategy.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and web-based applications.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Brokerage and Custom Clearance processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math, or four (4) years of relevant experience.