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CDM Smith · 1 day ago

Lead, Product Management

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$121K/yr - $212K/yr

8+ years exp

CDM Smith is a company dedicated to creating an exceptional employee experience and fostering innovation in the AEC industry. They are looking for a Product Management Lead to drive the digital transformation by defining product vision, strategy, and managing the product lifecycle while engaging with stakeholders across various disciplines.

Civil EngineeringConstructionEnergyTransportationWater

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Hiring Manager

Liz Plumley

Responsibilities

Leads and oversees highly complex and/or large commercial product roadmaps through collaboration with internal stakeholders and market strategy, sales and development teams

Prioritizes, refines, and manages the product roadmap for existing and proposed highly complex or large solutions within the market segment to meet key market and internal customer segment adoption milestones in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industries

Conducts foundational user research to gather and prioritize client needs and product requirements

Leads the process of engaging with internal customers and partners to gather requirements, prioritize needs, and understand business workflows

Conducts and guides more junior staff in conducting stakeholder feedback sessions, workshops and/or interviews

Translates feedback into user stories and use cases for implementation

Shares and communicates information about products to customers and users through blogs, white papers and presentations

Ensures that stakeholder input is organized, documented, and communicated in a way that can be clearly understood and acted on by Product Owners and development teams

Performs acceptance testing for moderately to highly complex products

Documents findings and details to troubleshoot defects/bugs/errors

Works with the development team to replicate findings, perform root-cause analysis, and define a resolution

Responsible for maximizing the output of the development team

Participates in product development from conception to launch

Works day-to-day with development teams to oversee the flow of technical work, including participating in routine Agile meetings

Leads collaborations, facilitates sprint activities, and creates and communicates requirement artifacts that translate business needs into executable requirements

Provides oversight and guidance to more junior product management and/or quality/test staff during product development, with a strong emphasis on coordination, clarity, and removing cross-functional blockers rather than owning detailed technical design

Communicates risks and partners with management to implement mitigation strategies

Contributes to the development of controls for an identified risk and obtains approval

Escalates risk events and/or gaps in a timely fashion through retrospectives and/or risk forum participation

Partners with marketing to help develop and maintain go-to-market plans and sales collateral for products of high complexity or large size

Leads product demonstrations, delivers presentations to customers and prospects, and creates supporting marketing collateral for both internal tool launches and client-facing digital solutions

Leads, coaches, develops and trains assigned team members

Monitors staff workloads and provides team resources needed to ensure delivery of a high-quality outcome to complete their jobs

Provides ongoing feedback of performance to direct reports and may conduct performance reviews

Approves time sheets and ensures company policies are followed

Performs other duties as required

Qualification

Product ManagementStakeholder EngagementAgile/ScrumData AnalyticsSaaS B2B SoftwareUser ResearchRisk ManagementCommunication SkillsLeadership SkillsCross-functional Coordination

Required

Bachelor's Degree

8 years of relevant experience

Equivalent additional directly related experience will be considered in lieu of a college degree

Proficient in managing software products from inception to launch (preferably SaaS B2B software)

Highly skilled at analyzing, thinking strategically, and providing creative solutions using technology

Excellent verbal and written communication and collaboration skills for working with team members, users, and external stakeholders

Good experience in design or engineering applications and technology for visualization, architecture, GIS, or analytics

Good knowledge of Agile software development practices and Product Management best practices

Ability to work with diverse internal and external stakeholders, at all levels of an organization, to extract informational needs and translate into detailed requirements/deliverables

Excellent interpersonal, presentation, and leadership skills to cultivate strategic relationships with colleagues, customers, and partners

Excellent self-motivation, creative skills, and team-oriented collaboration

Excellent ability to extract informational needs and translate into detailed requirements/deliverables

Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional work across business units, IT, marketing/communications, legal, finance and other functions to deliver complex initiatives

Comfortable acting as a connector between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring alignment and clarity without being the sole owner of the product backlog