Technical Product Manager

If you are motivated and believe in the credit union philosophy of "People Helping People," join our team!

The Technical Product Manager serves as the Owner of their product or product group and is responsible for the success of their product(s).  Their responsibilities revolve around the discovery and delivery of features, upgrades, and general releases pertaining to their owned products in order to solve business problems and meet business objectives.

The TPM is responsible for resolving problems presented to them from leadership in a manner that resolves the issue for the users and business ensuring that the solution is valuable, usable, feasible, and viable.  Through frequent testing and risk analysis, the TPM is accountable for maintaining a functional and efficient product backlog using approved management tools.

Responsibilities:

10% User Centric Product Vision – Overall 3-10 year vision of future market in which a strategy can be aligned.  This vision should be created using emerging technologies, predicting customer/user demand, and be aligned to operational vision/strategy.

10% Insight-Driven Product Strategy - Development and maintenance of an outcome-based product roadmap that aligns with user needs with relevant business drivers. 

20% Collaboration with Stakeholders – Presenting teams, leadership, engineering and other stakeholders with product roadmaps, discovery analysis, retrospectives, and operational guidance in relevance to their given product(s).

35% Product Discovery - Conducting research with relevant user groups, SMEs, vendors, and business stakeholders, to create team initiatives to prototype and test possible solutions to business problems.

25% Product/Feature Deployment - Coordinate with various business lines to successfully test and deploy products/features in line with operational demands and timelines.

Qualifications

Required Education

Bachelors Degree (Acceptable Fields of Study): Software Engineering, Finance, Business, Information Systems, Data Analysis, and Engineering.

☒ Additional four years of relevant experience can be considered in lieu of degree

Required Relevant Experience

4 years

Required Knowledge, Abilities, Skills

Refined critical thinking, understanding of Software Development LifeCycle frameworks, cross-functional collaboration and communication, business acumen, development of outcome-based product roadmaps, negotiation, conflict resolution, and presentation skills.

Desired Education, Experience, Knowledge, Abilities, Skills

Master’s Degree in Software Development, Finance, Information Systems, Business, Data Analysis, or Engineering.  Strong communication skills, experience using Atlassian tool systems, Familiarity with Agile Frameworks, track record of successful product launch, and experience with tracking outcome- based metrics.

SECU provides equal employment opportunity to all qualified persons regardless of race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or other classification protected by law.

Disclaimer

State Employees' Credit Union reserves the right to fill this role at a higher/lower level based on business need.