R1561603 Product Leader

The Associate Director of product Management is responsible for overseeing and managing the product development function and processes for a specific solution or set of solutions. The Associate Director of product Management will identify customer needs and business objectives, articulate the vision and success criteria, and rally team members to turn that vision into reality.

Requirements

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  Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Computer Science or Systems Engineering
• Certified in PMP, ITILV3, CPIM, or MSCE (nice to have, not must)
• Ability to apply platform support and troubleshooting methodologies
• Prior experience in product management or business analysis roles
• Experience with continuous integration and automated deployment practices
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office.
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and meet timelines on deliverables.

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  Gathering input from a variety of internal stakeholders, external resources
• Play the role of product owner in an agile development process, working daily with user experience designers, visual designers, and software engineers to make strategic and tactical decisions about product functionality, balancing appropriate tradeoffs between business goals, user goals, scalability/maintainability, time-to-market, and process efficiency
• Work with platform vendors and development vendors to provide technical management on the delivery of platform and services
• Proposing and managing demand for application work
• Defining and managing project and enhancement pool budgets
• Providing VIP support in conjunction
• Capturing business and functional requirements and writing precise specifications to communicate them to the development teams
• Managing projects through all of their phases
• Serve as primary contact to the business for systems
• Manage product strategy and feature/capability set for business solutions