Sr Product Manager/Scrum Lead

Hybrid schedule: able to go in office when needed (couple times per month)Compensation: $110-120k

• Creates and documents a vision for multiple projects in a prioritized long-term roadmap.
• Document business requirements in the form of Agile stories; groom stories in the backlog to ensure that engineers on the scrum team understands the acceptance criteria for the stories.
• Responsible for defining Epics, stories and prioritizing the Team Backlog.
• Build relationships with key business partners and other stakeholders to ensure an understanding of their business processes/needs and integrate those into the backlog, liaising between those stakeholders and the technical teams.
• Lead team demonstrations of software product and provide context to explain how the software product applies to business processes
• Sets and communicates iteration goals and iteration content via prioritized stories
• Develops a strong understanding of the business operations in a domain
• Partners with the stakeholders to help drive user adoption of new capabilities, including development of change management plans, communication plans, training, and user adoption surveys.
• Supports organizational change and training through development of change management plans, communication plans and training materials
• Describe proposed scope changes to engineers and negotiate tradeoffs between scope, schedule and quality on behalf of stakeholders.
• Provide input to release planning, design storming, QA validations and signoff at iteration level across multiple scrum teams.
• Proactively and effectively communicate changes to systems (Projects / Minor enhancements related changes.)
• Engage with the software vendors and understand the new application functionality that’s being evaluated for implementation.
• Communicate critical business-impacting incidents to leaders in a timely manner and ensure they are communicated in business language; provide cross-functional team coordination to remediate critical issues and ensure ongoing status is communicated and contingency options that best support the business are provided

• 5+ years IT experience
• 3+ years’ experience in product management or product ownership on an Agile team, preferably for a large retail company.
• Experience using roadmap and agile project management tools (Jira, Aha, Rally, etc) preferred
• Experience with…
  • Retail merchandise business processes (including Planning, Buying and Allocation)
  • Financial planning applications (retail merchandise planning strongly preferred, such as Oracle or Blue Yonder)
• Strong experience defining product requirements including functional requirements and supporting non-functional requirements
• Background in product roadmap management, both development and execution of a long-term vision
• Ability to…
  • develop a clear, complete understanding of customer needs and problems through careful listening, probing, encouraging or summarizing and document them using natural language
  • create and deliver presentations to educate/influence business partners on customer analytics strategy
  • develop and deliver communications (both oral and written) that have clarity and impact
  • establish and maintain effective relationships with customers
• Dedication to exceeding customer expectations and requirements
• Effective time management and organizational skills with the ability to operate in a fluid, fast paced environment
• BA or BS degree in MIS, Computer Science, or related area preferred