What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Manager position at SOFT, Inc.?
SOFT's client located in Syracuse, NY (hybrid) is looking for a Senior Product Strategist for a long term contract assignment.
The Senior Product Strategist is responsible for supporting the business and operations work stream within a multi-disciplinary digital product team structure. They partner closely to execute several activities, such as identifying risky assumptions, building the value case, defining the future-state process vision, executing change management plans, etc.
Key Accountabilities
- Support business capability assessment, design, alignment and roadmapping for product line with cross-functional teams
- Construct business case, including value projections and detailed investment estimate; ensure these are aligned with product definition
- Track objectives and key results to assess benefit realization of products
- Proactively identify riskiest assumptions and support product team in designing and executing experiments to increase confidence in business case assumptions
- Support business/operation work stream team, participating in Agile sprints during full product roadmap
- Define future-state operations solution (process, org change), including detailed current state-process and future-state process documentation
- Support change mgmt. and product roll-out plan, with help from the change mgmt. team as needed
- Implement marketing, sales, business development, user acquisition, and user support strategies
- Provide support to product & technical work streams (e.g., RFP support, stakeholder mgmt., value alignment, IT governance, IT PMO)
- Support preparation of materials for key stakeholder readouts (e.g., Digital Board meetings) and regulatory engagements.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business, technology, engineering or relevant field
- 3-5 years relevant business experience
- Experience working on digital product teams highly preferred
- Experience designing and refining value case (e.g., financial value to the business, strategic value, etc.)
- Experience in defining, testing, and refining product assumptions
- Experience in Agile product or project management
- At least 1-2 years working with (or within) utility
- Financial modeling and value case development experience
Job Type: Contract
Pay: $55.00 - $60.00 per hour
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
Education:
- Bachelor's (Preferred)
Experience:
- Product management: 4 years (Required)
Ability to Commute:
- Syracuse, NY 13202 (Required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Syracuse, NY 13202
Salary : $55 - $60
