Product Manager

Overview

This position is within the Product Management division, which is accountable for the success of our software solutions by working cross-functionally with teams that develop, market, sell and support them. 

 

Product Managers will help execute the product strategy by working closely with user experience, development squads and product strategy leaders to ensure that quality products are released on time. They own and manage detailed requirements and communicate through the agile development tools. They develop prioritized roadmaps with incremental releases and continuously keep internal and external stakeholders informed of the progress. They pursue user-centered design and evaluate work-in-progress features with user experience analysts to ensure delightful user experiences.

Responsibilities

What You’ll Be Doing

Product Definition

• Embrace the agile product development process adopted by ConstructConnect: Think It! Build It! Ship It! Tweak It!
• Actively participate in “design thinking” exercises to help define identified product opportunities and find solutions.
• Leverage Voice of the Customer, and Voice of the Organization, to solve problems at hand and articulate customer feedback to agile project teams.
• At the end of Think It!, break down features into incremental deliverables (stories) and collaborate with UX/UI teams to deliver appropriate design packages
• Articulate new feature definition very detailed and work with agile project teams to develop achievable product roadmap and timelines.

Business Planning

• Assist Product Strategy managers in developing product OKRs that are aligned with business strategy.
• Track and report product OKR and other product/team metrics on a regular basis.

Product Planning

• Breakdown high level product requirements and collaborate with product leaders and user experience teams to define incremental releases.
• Manage feature development and enhancements from concept through design to tactical execution.
• Define the product release roadmap for at least 2 quarters and communicate regularly to stakeholders throughout the business
• Influence Product Strategy Managers on product (or product line) roadmaps with knowledge of current product and technical capabilities.

Product Delivery

• Collaborate with scrum master, agile teams and other key project stakeholders to ensure proper deliverables.
• Work with UX, Product Strategy managers to document key customer value and communicate to the GTM teams.
• Participate in evangelizing product’s new features internally and externally.

Technical Skills

• Be a product expert and go-to person on the new products and services
• Keep abreast of internal and external technologies relevant to our current/future needs and tied to product growth.

Skill Levels:

Leadership

• Will work individually and occasionally manage the work of others depending on the position level. This may be internal or external resources – including other technical product managers.
• Works with one or more scrum teams to drive strategy and ensure progress of a product or product line.
• Works with UX/UI colleagues to detail and grooms the features along with scrum team members.
• Communicates regularly product status of new feature ideations and VOC results to scrum teams
• Helps influence Product Strategy Leader and other colleagues on product direction.
• Sets direction and influences messaging for a product during product releases.
• Influences peers (BA/UX/Arch/Dev) to arrive at coordinated direction for timely execution and manages scope and quality.
• Works with other scrum teams to manage the dependencies.
• Influences leadership in resource decisions.
• Influences product line priorities and GTM and business priorities.

Breadth

• Frequently interacts with peer groups, SMEs, and UX colleagues to acquire product knowledge.
• Exhibits sufficient knowledge of cloud-based software components to help accelerate ConstructConnect backlog grooming.
• Regularly interacts often with customers and captures/clarifies detailed requirements.
• Exhibits great strong knowledge of features being built and becomes a key point person for other internal stakeholders.
• Influences products strategy in shaping the product line direction. Focusses on a product/product line but generally cognizant of and influences other products too.
• Regularly interacts with leadership team, key stakeholders to help/influence key decisions.

Complex Thinking

• Exercises judgement by evaluating a variety of factors, including business goals, customer