"Senior Software Product Manager"

Job Description

Primary Responsibilities

• Works closely with cross functional team of stakeholders, end-users, engineers, UX designers and product leaders to understand the problems to solve, inform the product vision and define requirements
• Works towards creating shared outcomes with multiple teams to deliver impact for customers
• Defines product release strategies, ensuring the readiness of the various business partners
• Becomes the expert for their product, demonstrating mastery of the current platform with an understanding of gaps that inform their near-term product roadmap and contribute to long-term strategy
• Manages expectations by understanding when initiatives are at risk and proactively communicating with stakeholders
• Participates and presents in quarterly planning activities
• Ensures product quality by testing software features to ensure they satisfy the acceptance criteria and work with stakeholders and end users to coordinate user acceptance testing activities
• Builds mentorship relationships and initiates guidance of newer Product Managers
• Leads research efforts to distill clarity from ambiguity and develops data collection strategies that identify the right outcomes for measuring success
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

This job description includes a general representation of job requirements rather than a comprehensive inventory of all required responsibilities or work activities. The contents of this document or related job requirements may change at any time with or without notice.

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Understands the landscape of problems and quickly zeros in on the best strategy to achieve business outcomes
• Excellent Storyteller
• Demonstrates expertise in a variety of product discovery techniques
• Looks beyond the obvious and doesn't stop at the first solution proposed
• Makes choices about priorities that clearly demonstrate an understanding of the business goals, market demand and user needs
• Ability to measure product health and use data to inform prioritization decisions, to ensure product quality and service levels, and meet defined goals and success metrics
• Inspires new ways of working and product practice techniques
• Can effectively cope with change and can shift gears comfortably

Education

• Bachelor's degree

Experience

• 4+ years of demonstrated experience working as a product manager
• Experience working in Agile environments
• Excellent presentation, written and verbal communication skills
• Strong passion for exploring and understanding customer needs
• Natural leadership instincts, with a positive team building approach

Experience in lieu of education

Equivalent relevant experience performing the essential functions of this job may substitute for education degree requirements. Generally, equivalent relevant experience is defined as 1 year of experience for 1 year of education and is the discretion of the hiring manager.

Position & Application Details

Full-Time Regular Positions (classified as regular and working 40 standard weekly hours): This is a full-time, regular position (classified for 40 standard weekly hours) that is eligible for bonuses; medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare; health savings account and flexible spending account; basic and voluntary life insurance; disability coverage; accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages; legal and identity theft coverage; retirement savings plan; wellbeing program; discounted WGU tuition; and flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual, flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual, 11 paid holidays, and other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave.

How to Apply: If interested, an application will need to be submitted online. Internal WGU employees will need to apply through the internal job board in Workday.