Product Manager

As a Product Manager on the Writing Integrity Platform Team, you will be a hands-on Product Manager working across products and teams as part of “One Team.”

You will be primarily responsible for managing our Similarity product– managing a product roadmap, analyzing usage and trends, and facilitating projects with engineering and product partners throughout the software development lifecycle.

You will be expected to consider aspects like interoperability, performance, and business cost/impact when working with your engineering and product partners to scope new features, capabilities, and services.

In addition to a deep understanding of the end-to-end customer experience, the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and manage cross-team dependencies and stakeholders is crucial for success.

Responsibilities:

• Partnering with Engineering and other Product leads to define product requirements and lead implementation and rollout.
• Remove roadblocks, and quickly respond to change/uncertainty through articulating options, implications, and outcomes that inform strategic decision making.
• Business Analysis activities including the creation and management of backlogs, epics, and user stories.
• Facilitating team planning and refinement.
• Create alignment across work tracks and product/engineering teams, with a shared product vision and roadmap.
• Ensure your products address both internal and external supportability requirements.

Requirements

Essential Qualifications, Skills, and Knowledge/Experience

• 3+ years of experience as a Business Analyst/Product Owner/Product Manager or a similar role.
• Demonstrated ability to understand and discuss technical concepts, manage tradeoffs, and evaluate opportunistic innovative ideas with technical and non-technical partners.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up hypotheses and recommendations.
• Proven success in Agile product management, development and product ownership competencies including experience with JIRA (or equivalent) systems for backlog management, project status and work tracking.
• Exceptional communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications, Skills, and Knowledge/Experience

• CSPO or equivalent product management qualifications.
• Experience with SQL.
• Experience in Micro Frontend and Shared Services deliverables.
• Experience in low-fidelity prototyping to aid early brainstorming with stakeholders.
• Demonstrable experience in leading complex digital products in a fast moving environment involving multiple stakeholder groups.
• Experience with managing a technical roadmap for service level deliverables.
• Understanding of the educational technology landscape including Knowledge of or experience with LMS systems such as Blackboard, Canvas, Desire to Learn, Moodle, Schoology, and others.

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