Digital Product Manager

Role Summary

Digital Product Manager responsible for planning, initiating, and managing IT projects; defining product roadmaps, gathering requirements from stakeholders, and delivering technology solutions aligned with business strategy. This role involves collaborating with users and clients to shape the vision, translate needs into product requirements, and drive the development lifecycle. May telecommute.

Responsibilities

• Plan, initiate, and manage information technology (IT) projects.
• Plan project stages and assess business implications for each stage.
• Manage project execution to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, scope, and quality.
• Monitor or track project milestones and deliverables.
• Submit project deliverables, ensuring adherence to quality standards.
• Assess current or future business teams' needs and priorities by communicating directly with business teams, conducting workshops, or other methods.
• Initiate, review, or approve modifications to project plans.
• Schedule and facilitate meetings related to information technology projects.
• Direct or coordinate activities of project personnel.
• Develop implementation plans that include analyses such as cost-benefit or return on investment (ROI).
• Monitor, evaluate, and communicate product progress at each stage of the development lifecycle, including key decisions and issue developments.
• Collaborate with prospective users and clients to understand and anticipate their needs, shape the vision and concept, and translate needs into product requirements.
• Own the product roadmap and align it to strategic goals in collaboration with internal and external customers.
• Develop scope and help define backlog items such as epics, features, and user stories that guide the development team.
• Tackle product-related problems, make decisions, and complete trade-off analyses to stay on track toward business commitments.
• Assess value, develop business analysis, and prioritize opportunities to ensure the work focuses on those with maximum value aligned with product strategy.
• Define and implement change management plans, including communications, staff engagement, training, and sponsorship.
• May telecommute.

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in the job offered or in a technology-related occupation.
• Experience with data analysis and visualization tools including MS Excel, Tableau, Smartsheet, or Spotfire.
• Collaborating with business stakeholders to design process workflows using Microsoft Visio and Miro.
• Working with Scrum Agile Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) delivery methodology, tracking project milestones, and managing Scrum boards using JIRA.
• Eliciting business requirements from stakeholders to enable development of technical solutions using technologies such as AWS and Databricks.
• Examining business processes and problems, creating technical solutions, and applying the solutions and processes to resolve problems.
• Delivering projects with planning, financial, resource, vendor, and risk management.

Skills

• Data analysis and visualization using MS Excel, Tableau, Smartsheet, or Spotfire.
• Stakeholder collaboration and requirements elicitation.
• Process design using Microsoft Visio and Miro.
• Agile SDLC and Jira.
• Technical solution design using AWS and Databricks.
• Backlog management and translating needs into epics, features, and user stories.
• Cost-benefit and ROI analysis.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Applications, or related field.