What are the responsibilities and job description for the Agile Product Manager position at Lorven Technologies Inc.?
Our client seeks an Agile product Manager for a Long Term project in Plano, TX. Below is the detailed requirement
Title: Agile Product Manager
Location : Plano, TX
Contract : 12 Months
Job Description:
- Bachelor's degree preferably in Computer Science, Information technology, Computer Engineering, or related IT discipline or equivalent experience with 12 Minimum Experience
- 5 years of experience in Agile Product Manager roles at enterprise level clients while building relationship with business, technology partners to establish a circle of trust with stakeholders
- 5 years of supporting Healthcare Payer Clients with Pharmacy or Specialty Pharmacy experience Highly preferred
- 5 years of experience product delivery building relationships with business and technical stakeholders collaboratively defining product vision, goals and priorities
Responsibilities/ Expectations:
- Proactive and takes an active role in understanding the business case, why a change is being requested and learning the desired future state
- Focused on continuous learning, adopting probe and learn approach for self-learning
- Leverages knowledge of the product's value stream and system interactions to identify when new features or product changes are needed to achieve business value
- Has a sound understanding of breaking down a problem/ ask to requirements.
- Understands the aspects of well-rounded requirements (functional/ non-functional)
- Communicates stakeholder goals and expected outcomes to the engineering/ Solution Architect/ Principal engineering team and writes definition-of-ready user stories, incorporating architectural changes recommended by engineering
- Facilitates product backlog grooming sessions, ensuring the highest impact work is delivered soonest.
- Responsible for maintaining product technical roadmap and advocating prioritization at the right time for non-functional work.
- Adept at building relationship with business, technology partners to establish a circle of trust with stakeholders
- Has overall ownership of a defined capability or technical product area, including product value, cost of ownership, health and non-functional requirements (reliability, scalability, usability, security, performance, etc.)
- Cultivates trusted relationships with Business/BAT and Technology partners to foster teamwork and a shared understanding of the product vision, goals and priorities
- Leads sprint planning , story refinement , feature elaboration sessions with business and technology stakeholders.
- Actively participates in planning sessions that form cohesive, iterative plans and ensure the team's work creates the iterative value (e.g. supports the completion of MVPs/Epics in concert with other teams)
- Proactively resolve upstream dependencies and resolve conflict effectively across teams
- Participates in team standups, and retrospectives, facilitates dialog with stakeholders during sprint reviews/product demos
- Identifies, monitors and communicates technical product health metrics and KPIs and advocates for product improvements with Business/Technology partners
Manages allocation of team capacity to ensure appropriate levels are utilized for product health improvements and reduction of technical debt (e.g. integration and deployment of tooling, test automation, etc.)
Leverages agility tools (e.g., Jira) and implements strategies to optimize team performance and achieve overall department objectives (e.g., manage story aging, manage WIP, epic size/throughput, etc.).
