Job Description
The Product Manager is responsible for the product planning and execution throughout the Product Lifecycle, including gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, and ensuring revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met. The Product Manager’s job also includes ensuring that the product supports the company’s overall strategy and goals.
Key Responsibilities
Manage all technical aspects of product through product lifecycle
Work directly and indirectly with business stakeholders, vendors and third parties to ensure execution of deliverables
Create, maintain and communicate product catalog and technology roadmaps, including near-term delivery, to engage stakeholders across the organization
Identify, measure and improve key product catalog metrics to enhance the customer experience, and create a compelling, relevant product vision using web metrics, customer insights, feedback, research and internal operational metrics
Elicit, define and analyze medium to complex requirements in various formats ensuring they are testable, measurable and traceable
Set criteria for minimum viable product to increase the speed/frequency with which enhancements and new capabilities are delivered
Lead the appropriate teams to refine, prioritize and manage requirements using various tools (e.g., templates, team backlogs, requirements management or agile task management applications)
Lead requirement walk-throughs with key stakeholders using various methods (e.g., team demos, workshops, sprint planning and backlog refinement sessions)
Identify and estimate anticipated work efforts based on priority using requirement work plans, program increment (PI) planning, and sprint planning
Define and resolve dependencies, issues and risks and identify impacted areas through team collaboration
Break down a medium to complex vision into smaller projects, initiatives or features
Note to Vendors
Top 3 skills - Demand Forecasting, Product experience, collaborating with stakeholders.
Soft skills - Experience presenting to leaders.
Project details - Working on implementing Oracle and RMS. This role would work with RDF (retail demand forecasting)
Team dynamics - the team is about 65% remote
Work location (in office, hybrid, remote) - Good if near a hub, but can be remote.
Travel requirements - Minimal, could be 1-2x per year for a potential workshop in Cincinatti. Nothing is planned right now. would pay for workshops.
Max rate - there is no max rate for this role
Required working hours per week - 8-5, open to all timezones
Contract or Contract to Hire - Contract to Hire
Duration of assignment - 12 months
Is there a possibility that the contract will extend? yes
Interview process details - would like to start interviewing next week
Prescreening Details - standard hirevue
Projected Start Date - ASAP
