Description
The Position
We are seeking a Product Manager II to join our team and help us achieve our ambitious goals for our business and the planet.
What you will contribute:
As our Product Manager II, you will be a Product Management team member and immediately impact Uplight s development efforts, market position, and revenue.
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Lead 1-2 development pods (teams) executing in an Agile Scrum environment, writing all User Stories, running refinement sessions, and supporting planning to enable execution against a defined product strategy.
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Ensure the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all, and shows what the pod will work on for the next quarter.
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Be the voice of the customer for the pod.
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Work cross-functionally within the organization to gain stakeholder alignment, support product launches, and provide technical support for uncovered issues.
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Involvement in all stages of product development from exploration to delivery - collaborating with highly skilled data scientists, engineers, designers, and other key stakeholders along the way.
What you get to do:
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Contribute to the product vision, strategy and roadmap
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Work closely with a cross-functional team (including Product Design, Consumer Operations, Information Systems, Accounting, Reporting and Implementation) to ensure product goals, deadlines and deliverables are met.
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Work collaboratively and be constructive when communicating and interacting with co-workers. A contributor who seeks solutions.
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Communicate and demonstrate the business outcomes associated with a product epic
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Maintain a solid understanding of product capabilities, gaps, and short-term roadmap, and be well versed in how these solutions can be applied to solve customer problems
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Own the pod teams backlog: Work with internal and external stakeholders to triage and prioritize the backlog
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Decompose Epics into stories, prioritize them, and clearly communicate them to the development pod. Ensure stories meet the acceptance criteria when they are delivered.
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Drive the sprint iterations, and actively participate in all agile ceremonies including sprint retros, refinement and planning.
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Own the responsibility for collecting, filtering and disseminating requirements through the various touchpoints for specific product(s).
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Collaborate with other team members to ensure that cohesive solutions are built across Uplight s platform.
Skills and experience are necessary, but we hire on value alignment first, so if you feel you would be a good fit with us, still consider applying.
What you bring to Uplight
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5+ years of experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager shipping great products for a leading consumer, SaaS, or enterprise software company
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Ability to facilitate, understand and put forth technical design concepts, APIs, DB querying.
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Ability to write and express complex ideas clearly and succinctly
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Excellent analytical skills, teamwork, organization, and communication ability
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Ability to drive initiatives and ideas from start to finish
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Deep experience with Agile Scrum development processes
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Proficiency with Jira
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A strong work ethic
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Ability to be decisive and operate in a fast-paced environment
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Engaging and personable
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Excellent stakeholder management
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Entrepreneurial, business-focused mindset
Bonus Points:
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An online slide deck showcasing a product/feature of which you are particularly proud and the process used to launch it
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SaaS experience
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Utility or Energy industry experience
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Certified Scrum Product Owner
Qualifications