Product Manager

Department:

Technology

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Job Description:

The Product Manager supports the APMO organization by helping deliver a continually forecasted IT roadmap that reflects all internal and external demand across the enterprise. They’ll focus on the Observability space, encompassing technologies that enable detection through correction, with a meaningful impact on solution health, legacy retirement, and adoption of new capabilities that maximize business value. They’re responsible for defining and supporting solutions that are desirable, feasible, viable, and sustainable, delivering value to the right Customers and Stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle. The Product Manager collaborates with a wide range of People to identify Customer needs, shape program vision, and develop roadmaps and features that align technology investment with enterprise priorities. 

Additional Details 

• This DFW-based role is offered as a remote workplace position, which may require travel for trainings, meetings, conferences, etc. Outside of those required visits, the majority of your working time may be spent in an approved remote location within the DFW area. 

• U.S. citizenship or current authorization to work in the U.S. required and no current or future work authorization sponsorship available.   

We’re committed to fair hiring practices and to making employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, military or veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other legally protected characteristics. 

Responsibilities

• Responsible for defining a Product Vision that reflects the customer and business needs and is in alignment with the strategic themes of the organization
• Advocate for the customer, keeping teams focused on delivering solutions that address real customer pain points. Conduct continuous user research to understand what customers need and want, using those insights to inform the vision and roadmap
• Continuously refining Epics into Features, prioritizing, and sequencing them on the PI Roadmap, and working with Product Owners within the ART to translate Features into Stories that will satisfy the Product Vision
• Responsible for Product completeness by creating Feature Acceptance Criteria, maintaining the Feature Definition of Done, and by accepting Features
• Collaborates with Architects and other technical People to ensure the solution effectively addresses the functional and non-functional requirements while maintaining technical excellence by understanding and sequencing Enabler work in the Program Backlog and Program Kanban
• Collaborates with Change Management to prepare for product release (education, documentation, training, etc.)
• Participates in PI planning by defining and presenting the business intent, planned Features, and highlighting any known dependencies and milestones throughout each Program Increment, and providing fast Program-level decisions within the event
• Actively participates in Inspect and Adapt (I&A) events, leads Feature definition, and refinement including establishing feature acceptance criteria
• Leads the System Demo to evaluate working software and help to assess business value delivered against the business intent
• Collaborates with Product Managers supporting other Programs to determine cross-program impacts, interdependency of work and priorities, and plan for communication and coordination
• Participates in the economic prioritization of Features and Enablers using techniques such as Weighted Shortest Job First
• Work with business stakeholders to maintain ali