Senior Product Manager

We are actively looking for a dynamic Senior Product Manager to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for delivering and sustaining digital experiences for the organization. This includes launching new features, driving optimization projects, and handling long-term product sustainment to keep systems healthy and stable.

Responsibilities:

• The Product Manager will work closely with the end users, application team, and key stakeholders to enhance the tool and evolve our product offering. He or she will oversee the product line's life cycle and anticipate problems.
• Responsibilities include collection of business and systems requirements from internal and external customers, writing specifications/ user stories, driving project schedules from design to release, and managing the production launch.
• You will lead and coordinate design/implementation efforts between internal teams and outside vendors to develop optimal solutions.
• You will be expected to make appropriate tradeoffs to optimize time-to-market, clearly communicate goals, roles, responsibilities, and desired outcomes to internal cross-functional and remote project teams.
• Partners with senior product leadership to refresh the product strategy on a regular basis or as required to support changes to product strategy.
• The Product Manager will be responsible for translating that strategy into epics, including user stories, mind maps, and product specifications.
• Maintains strategic partnerships throughout the organization and acts as a key product advisor for the PPM Tool.
• Ability to start with the end user and work backwards to define the product vision based on customer needs.
• Manages the feature development and defect backlog on a daily basis to ensure that priorities adhere to the strategic direction.
• Attends daily scrums with development studios to help drive priority decisions and remove roadblocks.
• Supports cross-functional teams to ensure a solid understanding of the defined scope. Communicates changes in strategic direction or priority shifts to cross-functional teams.
• Collaborates with various groups (process, Agile coaching, organizational change management, portfolio management, finance, etc.) to build and manage scope expectations.
• Translates the tool/business strategy into clearly prioritized epics and user stories. Ensures appropriate delivery of those epics/user stories across the development lifecycle.
• Assists the leadership team in translating product vision into presentations that will be shared with executive audiences and partners across the organization,
• Effectively uses presentation tools to continuously share the product vision with delivery partners.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Product Sustainment & Continuous Improvement
  • Translate Strategy: Turn the digital strategy into clearly prioritized user stories and business requirements.
  • Requirements: Define clear and detailed product specifications, user stories, business rules, and acceptance criteria.
  • Use Modern Tools: Apply familiarity with AI tools to craft initial Business Requirements, User Stories, and Acceptance Criteria.
  • Guide Lifecycle: Ensure appropriate delivery of Product requirements across the development lifecycle.
  • Support Studios: Support multiple cross-functional teams and development studios to ensure a solid understanding of the defined scope.
  • Drive Enhancements: Lead continuous improvement projects to upgrade existing digital features based on changing business needs.
  • Launch Readiness: Coordinate with operations, marketing, and training teams to ensure a smooth transition from product testing to live launch.
  • Optimize Experiences: Analyze Guest feedback, app reviews, and operational data to find and fix pain points in existing digital experiences.
  • Build Partnerships: Foster strong relationships with stakeholders across the company, including marketing, operations, design, engineering, and other product teams.
• Organization & Multitasking Skills
  • Task Prioritization: Proven ability to balance multiple competing projects, bug fixes, and long-term strategic enhancements.
  • Time Management: Highly organized with a track record of meeting strict deadlines while managing day-to-day operational issues.
  • Context Switching: Comfortable switching gears smoothly between high-level strategic planning and detailed technical troubleshooting.
  • Overall product strategy and roadmap definition for our project and portfolio management tool.

Benefits:

• 401(k).
• Dental Insurance.
• Health insurance.
• Vision insurance.
• We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity, equality, inclusion, and respect for people.
• The salary will be determined based on several factors, including, but not limited to, location, relevant education, qualifications, experience, technical skills, and business needs.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Participate in OP monthly team meetings and participate in team-building efforts.
• Contribute to OP technical discussions, peer reviews, etc.
• Contribute content and collaborate via the OP-Wiki/Knowledge Base.
• Provide status reports to OP Account Management as requested.

About us:
At OP, we help you harness the power of technology for maximum impact. A technology consulting and solutions company, we offer advisory and managed services, innovative platforms, and staffing solutions across a wide range of fields including AI, cyber security, enterprise architecture, and beyond. For nearly two decades, we've been challenging the status quo of the consulting industry, serving up fresh, ingenious thinking through a radically lean structure. Together, this strategy delivers unprecedented performance at an unparalleled pace for faster results that propel your business forward.