Lead Product Manager

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with us!
Job Level:
T5 - Technical Professional 5
Summary:
We are looking for a Lead Technical Product Manager to join our Investments & Field
Solutions Delivery team that supports our Institutional Investments department. The
role will help drive strategic work forward and provide opportunities to build strong
business partner relationships while being a part of a dynamic and talented
engineering team. This role requires an analytical mindset, persistence to solve
complex problems, ability to get things done quickly but thoughtfully!
Primary Duties & Responsibilities
Develop Roadmap: Define roadmaps and collaboration across key team
members to ensure roadmaps are synced and not duplicative. Define and track
critical metrics for measure of success across multiple products and
collaborators.
Gather Requirements: Gather higher level, complex product requirements with
a general understanding/knowledge of products in remit. Review and validate
requirements gathered within team.
Defines Product: Responsible for multiple medium to high complexity products
and product features from start to finish.
Stakeholder Engagement: Deliver key messages, communications about
products in their domain.
Design Partnership: Partner with design to ensure cohesive future state user
visions and experiences are aligned through a one-year vision with an
understanding of the Design process.
Author User Stories: Translate requirements to technical details to build and
validate use cases and user stories around a product and communicate them
effectively.
Feature Prioritization: Develop and maintain multiple prioritized backlogs of
user stories for implementation according to business value or return on
investment.
Data and Industry Practices/Research: Inform product decisions with both
qualitative and quantitative data on our behavior and experimentation.
Business Expertise: Use knowledge and experience to provide expertise in
multiple business areas and domains.
Current State, Future State and Gap Analysis: Begin to assess, exercise
judgement, and document current state across moderately complex processes
and business areas. Use analytics and experience to resolve issues and to
provide solutions.
Test Plan Review: Assist with coordinating and solution delivery test plans for
medium complex efforts by participating in and ensuring business sign-off of
testing processes for medium and large efforts.
Project Management: Use project management skills to successfully complete
and advance work.
Facilitates Ceremonies: Facilitate daily Standups, sprint Planning Meetings and
sprint Reviews and Retrospectives.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree.
6 - 8 years of prior experience with at least 6 working in a Product Management
Role, with agile team experience.
Knowledge Preferred: formal business analyst, engineering or testing
experience, familiar with BI tools, certification or experience with Product
Owner role, experience in leadership or mentorship of a team.
Knowledge of institutional investments especially real estate investing strongly
preferred.
Demonstrated experience with cross functional work in previous roles with
strong communication skills, time management, project management skills, eye
for business and high self-awareness/EQ.
Previous research experience, initial leadership exposure, ability to translate
product requirements into technical requirements, and work in ambiguity.
Ability to leverage strong communication skills and relationships to influence
outcomes while navigating conflict and decision making.
Solves moderately complicated problems with broad impact on the business;
requires conceptual and innovative thinking to develop solutions.
Must have previous research experience, influence skills, initial leadership
exposure, ability to translate product requirements into technical requirements,
and work in ambiguity.
Solves unique problems with broad impact on the business; requires conceptual
and innovative thinking to develop solutions
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$112,210.00
Pay Range - End:
$208,390.00
Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
215 - Structure 110: 123,410.00 USD - 229,190.00 USD
215 - Structure 115: 129,010.00 USD - 239,590.00 USD
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• Flexible work schedules
• Concierge service
• Comprehensive benefits
• Employee resource groups