Mechanical Orchard · 4 days ago

Staff Product Manager

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid, Senior Level, Lead/Staff

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Responsibilities

Owning and running the backlog of work for their teams

Providing clarity and focus on complex technical projects

Driving incremental progress in terms of learning, mitigated risk, and delivery of modernized applications to production

Creatively unblocking the project team from technical and organizational impediments

Understanding and balancing tradeoffs between customer needs, user needs, technical limitations, and security constraints while maintaining sustainable pace

Using lean principles to de-risk work

Driving decision making within the team and with internal and external stakeholders

Proactively communicating, internally and externally, with leadership and client stakeholders to ensure transparency and clarity in project progress, risk, and milestones

Maintaining tight feedback loops within the project team, with internal stakeholders, and with customer stakeholders

Maintaining focus and forward momentum for the project team

Establishing and maintaining excellent customer relationships, with alignment on priorities and progress

Contributing to the continuous improvement of our software delivery practice across the entire product lifecycle by applying and advocating for modern agile and product management practices

Creating and maintaining a vision, strategy, and roadmap for legacy software modernization projects

Facilitating decision-making meetings with cross-discipline teams and leaders at all organizational levels

Communicating with internal and external stakeholders about project progress, risk, and milestones

Maintaining a backlog of highly technical modernization work, including acceptance testing

Developing novel processes and tools for testing that modernized software is equivalent to its legacy counterpart and meets all performance requirements

Developing novel processes and tools for visualizing and communicating progress of legacy software modernization

Attending and facilitating agile team ceremonies such as daily standup, weekly planning, and weekly retrospectives

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Agile practicesProduct managementLean principlesBacklog managementRisk mitigationContinuous improvementTechnical project managementClient-facing communicationTeam facilitation