Product Manager

Company

Looking to make an impact at a small company? Want to flex your technical skills while learning the ins and outs of our platform?  Then deverus wants you!

deverus is an innovative software company getting back to its roots by changing the face of background checks. We provide advanced workflow and integration software for our end users in the Human Resource Market.

What You Will Do:

• As a key member of the deverus team, you help drive existing product direction, feature enhancements, and new products. 
• Be a strong self-starter, that can quickly acquire platform knowledge and understand our customer’s needs through extensive validation.
• Be data-driven, ensuring we are solving the right industry problems.
• Work with product, engineers and account managers to author epics, stories and documentation.
• Ensure project technical approach, tasks, and schedule are appropriate for the activities to be performed.  Build for scale, not for time.
• Develop and execute agile product roadmaps to facilitate the design, development and launch of new product innovation.
• Work with the users, executives and technical team to direct the identification, specification and prioritization of features, functionality and capabilities.
• Identify and mitigate product technical challenges.  Capable of solutioning a ‘build or buy’ based on company needs.
• Assist with managing the product backlog and sprints based upon the product roadmaps along with users, customer, and stakeholder feedback.

What You Bring:

Proven experience in technical product management for web and applications along with the ability to multitask, think quickly and execute effectively in a fast-paced environment.

• • Bachelor’s degree with minimum 2-5 years of experience as a Technical Product Manager who has deployed consumer or business user experiences.
  • 2-5 years experience planning projects for both professional services and product development teams with integrations to multiple vendors (Agile, Scrum, Kanban methodologies).
  • 2 years proven experience leading and motivating a team.
  • Experience with Scaled Agile or comparable framework a plus.
  • Demonstrated experience in tracking project status, metrics and in analyzing the RIGHT details.
  • Experience as an engineer is a plus, but not required.
  • Able to work in a fast-paced agile environment.
  • Experience with JIRA administration strongly desired.
  • Excellent communications skills, both written and verbal.  Comfortable communicating with all levels of management.

• Experience in the HR space a PLUS!