Product Manager

With courage and grit, you are not afraid to roll up your sleeves and blaze new trails into the heart of client challenges. You excel at crafting powerful, elegant, and user-friendly digital solutions, leveraging best practices to solve complex problems.  Adept at orchestrating the synergy of individuals, methodologies, and technologies you have a knack for getting sh*t done. 

As a valued member of gritmind, you'll tackle the most formidable hurdles in software delivery for our clients. Alongside our teams of Product Designers and Engineers, we'll collectively deliver top-tier digital products for global industry leaders. 

Responsibilities 

• Lead end-to-end digital product delivery, guiding clients from product vision to ongoing releases 
  
• Manage day-to-day operations of key client engagements, including: 
  
• Curating and maintaining product backlogs 
  
• Facilitating agile ceremonies with globally dispersed teams 
  
• Fostering communication between client stakeholders and development teams 
  
• Conducting product demos and presentations 
  
• Proactively monitoring project health through metrics 
  
• Balancing budget, scope, and schedule in alignment with engagement terms 
  
• Coordinating and executing product launch activities 
  
• Facilitating product usability testing sessions 
  
• Drive new business initiatives and foster client success through: 
  
• Running requirements gathering workshops 
  
• Collaborating with team members to produce estimates for client proposals 
  
• Advising current clients on product direction and technical options 
  
• Identifying opportunities for new workstreams and solutions within existing engagements 
  
• Contribute to our growing Product Management practice through: 
  
• Sharing knowledge and best practices 
  
• Demonstrating consistent leadership in delivery methodologies 

Requirements 

• BS or BA degree, MBA preferred 
  
• Proven track record in product ownership and delivering end-to-end custom software solutions 
  
• Proficiency in translating potentially nebulous client visions into meticulously detailed and technically robust product solutions 
  
• Solid background in Agile product management methodologies 
  
• Expertise in lean requirements gathering and story mapping techniques 
  
• Demonstrated ability to quickly grasp technical and business concepts 
  
• Succinct and effective communication, does not use 10 words when three will do 
  
• Outstanding organizational, time management, prioritization, and project management abilities 
  
• Ability to lead through influence 
  
• Availability to travel to client sites and other company offices as necessary 

Benefits 

• Be an instrumental member of a quickly scaling international company with a variety of challenging and compelling projects 
  
• Competitive salary 
  
• Performance-based bonuses (beginning 2025) 
  
• Health insurance company contribution 
  
• Four weeks paid vacation plus standard United States holidays 
  
• Funding for professional development such as conferences and educational courses 
  
• Team building events, Friday lunches, and stocked kitchen 
  
• Gym membership 

This position is based in Chicago, IL. We have a hybrid working model requiring an average of 3.5 days per week in the office. 

gritmind is committed to providing equal employment opportunities available to all and seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most qualified people without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. 

We do not sponsor employment visas and are unable to take over an employment visa from another employer.  Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. for ANY employer without the need for employment visa sponsorship. 
In applying for the position, applicants are required to provide truthful and complete information.  An applicant’s falsification or omission of information from the application or interview process, if applicable, may result in disqualification from further consideration for employment or, if hired, may result in termination of employment regardless of the time elapsed before discovery.