Product Manager IV

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a global technology leader that is transforming the way people shop, consume content, and interact with digital services. With a strong presence across e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence, the company is known for its customer-centric approach, innovation-driven culture, and large-scale global impact. It continues to invest in building products and services that improve everyday life while supporting businesses, communities, and economies worldwide.

Position : Product Manager IV

Location: Austin, TX, 78703

Duration: 6 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Description Summary:

• Client is actively seeking a seasoned and innovative Principal Product Manager to lead our Accounts Payable, Suppliers domains and join Fin Tech product management team based in Austin.
• In this role, you will be instrumental in driving the development of deliver a roadmap for financial systems convergence and app rationalization, solutions that support our stores, optimize operational processes, and elevate the overall customer experience.
• This Team Member will design, develop, and manage activities for a specific product or group of products from product definition and planning through production, release and end of life.
• Also serve as the central resource with design, process, manufacturing, test, quality, and marketing as the product(s) move to production and distribution.
• Involvement lasts throughout all stages of a product's lifecycle including modification, upgrades, and maintenance of the product or product line.

Responsibilities:

• Owns the translation of business intent, customer needs, and/or technical direction into clear, concise, well-documented business requirements or product backlog for one or more complex applications (or a product family) spanning one or more technical domains.
• Bridges conversations between business users and development teams using knowledge of complex business processes and technical integration spanning one or more business domains.
• Develops longer-term (12 months or more) product roadmap, ensuring product development plans align with and support stakeholder business and application objectives.
• Contributes and actively participates in Product Increment Planning sessions.
• Authors BRDs (business requirements docs) and champions higher documentation standards.
• Identifies, describes, and continually evaluates end user personas, target users and/or user journeys and aligns solution delivery to their business and quality needs.
• Partners with business to develop business case for new or existing solutions with supporting documentation, gain stakeholder support and approval, and acquire necessary resources.
• Partners with business and tech stakeholders to map business processes to the Systems features supporting Accounts Payable domain.
• Monitors industry trends, stakeholder satisfaction, usage trends, and related metrics to identify product / process improvement opportunities.
• Influences strategic thinking across the organization, ensuring cross-functional and cross-product collaboration and integration.
• Designs, segments, and recruits for user testing, A/B testing, E2E testing, interviews, and user surveys and synthesizes outputs to create actionable insights and drive product improvements.
• Shared understanding of the impacts within systems and business processes cross functional workstreams

What makes this role interesting:

• You will be instrumental in driving the development of deliver a roadmap for financial systems convergence and app rationalization, solutions that support our stores, optimize operational processes, and elevate the overall customer experience.

Experienced Skills:

• Advanced knowledge in Workday Financial and Accounting modules, Accounts Payable, Suppliers, PeopleSoft.
• Advanced knowledge of and experience with custom and packaged/SaaS software design tools and development methodologies and ability to mentor junior team members.
• Working knowledge of complex technical and integration architecture patterns and effectively present technical information and tell impactful user stories.
• Advanced knowledge of application deployment, software testing and support processes and tools.
• Advanced knowledge of requirements or backlog management software.
• Experience developing product road maps and using product analytics tools, tagging approaches, and accurately interpreting metrics.
• Knowledge of designing, segmenting, and recruiting for user testing, A/B testing, interviews, and user surveys and supporting tools and create actionable insights.
• Able to play a key and influential role working with others, in groups, in cross-functional settings and with diverse stakeholders internally and externally.
• Able to integrate customer, partner and technical /utilization feedback and performance metrics into product design, development, and application.
• Advanced knowledge of software engineering practices, developing products and technologies.

Education & Experience:

• BA/BS degree and 6-8 years' relevant experience OR equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Workday Fin/Accounting, Accounts Payable & Suppliers experience, PeopleSoft, Coupa, Concur, Vertex, Tango, Procore, Reconnet, Kainos, Jira, Confluence, Smartsheets, Lucid Charts

Top 3 Must Have Hard Skills:

• Workday experience
• PeopleSoft experience
• Accounting experience

Nice to haves:

• Masters
• Experience at Amazon
• Experience building out systems without bias

Leadership Principles:

• Dive deep
• Ownership

Years of Experience:

• 5-7+ years of experience

Disqualifies :

• No qualifying experience

Performance Indicators:

• Quality of work, feedback, meeting deadlines

Degree/ Certification Requirements:

• Bachelors degree

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity