Product Manager II

Description

What You Will Contribute

• 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.
• Ensure the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all, and shows what the pod will work on for the next quarter.
• Be the voice of the customer for the pod.
• Work cross-functionally within the organization to gain stakeholder alignment, support product launches, and provide technical support for uncovered issues.
• 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

• Contribute to the product vision, strategy and roadmap
• 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.
• Work collaboratively and be constructive when communicating and interacting with co-workers. A contributor who seeks solutions.
• Communicate and demonstrate the business outcomes associated with a product epic
• 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
• Own the pod teams backlog: Work with internal and external stakeholders to triage and prioritize the backlog
• Decompose Epics into stories, prioritize them, and clearly communicate them to the development pod. Ensure stories meet the acceptance criteria when they are delivered.
• Drive the sprint iterations, and actively participate in all agile ceremonies including sprint retros, refinement and planning.
• Own the responsibility for collecting, filtering and disseminating requirements through the various touchpoints for specific product(s).
• Collaborate with other team members to ensure that cohesive solutions are built across Uplight’s platform.
  

• 5+ years of experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager shipping great products for a leading consumer, SaaS, or enterprise software company
• Ability to facilitate, understand and put forth technical design concepts, APIs, DB querying.
• Ability to write and express complex ideas clearly and succinctly
• Excellent analytical skills, teamwork, organization, and communication ability
• Ability to drive initiatives and ideas from start to finish
• Deep experience with Agile Scrum development processes
• Proficiency with Jira
• A strong work ethic
• Ability to be decisive and operate in a fast-paced environment
• Engaging and personable
• Excellent stakeholder management
• Entrepreneurial, business-focused mindset
  

Bonus Points

• An online slide deck showcasing a product/feature of which you are particularly proud and the process used to launch it
• SaaS experience
• Utility or Energy industry experience
• Certified Scrum Product Owner
  

Qualifications

• Technical and/or management education, PG preferable, not mandatory.