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McGraw Hill · 2 days ago
Sr Associate, Technical Product Manager
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid Level
$85K/yr - $100K/yr
1+ years exp
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Responsibilities
Draft project charters, requirements, agile epics, and stories; maintain backlog with high-quality stories, acceptance criteria, and current priority.
Partner with leadership group (LG) to deliver roadmap commitments on-time, on-scope, on-quality.
Work with Technical Product Managers (TPMs) to ensure cross-team dependencies are identified, understood by all affected teams, and then properly managed. Support the TPMs in cross-team collaboration and coordination that result in a successful end-to-end user experience.
Participate in scrum ceremonies to ensure that there is an understanding of the user stories, enabling sizing and task breakdown to occur, and maximizing team productivity.
Communicate with technical teams and business stakeholders, including managing expectations, scope, and prioritization of work.
Partner with engineering, product owners, user experience, project management, and QA to investigate, document, and maintain business and technical processes.
Document competitive landscape, release notes, workflows, processes, case studies, training materials, and technical alternatives for specific epics or feature sets.
Work with Product Owners to align your product vision and strategy to company objectives.
Get your hands dirty - doing any job on the team necessary to build and ship a successful product.
Qualification
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Required
Bachelor’s Degree with 1-2 years of experience in agile software product development, particularly in platform and applications development and/or website design and development.
Experience with user story writing, use case diagram development, wireframe and design analysis, business/ecommerce/SaaS application analysis, and backlog management.
Ability to understand and transform technical concepts into non-technical terms that are understandable by business and customer stakeholders and teams.
Demonstrated leadership potential to effectively work across multiple teams, business units, and stakeholders.
Deadline‐conscious, results‐driven, and high‐performing in a high‐intensity environment
Acute attention to detail, the ability to analyze complex systems, and the ability to manage multiple projects concurrently.
Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal and organizational communication skills; must be able to communicate with technical teams and business stakeholders, as well as clearly document software for these audiences.
Demonstrated people skills; must be able to collaborate effectively with diverse personalities and skill sets, remote teams in various time zones, and enjoy constructive conflict.
Jira and Confluence experience
Technical prowess - you don’t need to code, but you shouldn’t be afraid of diving into technical issues.
An appreciation and passion for well-designed solutions
Self-motivation and a strong desire to make an impact at McGraw-Hill.
Critical feedback skills (giving/receiving) that help level up solutions.
Preferred
Experience with EdTech and/or LMS (Canvas, Schoology, Blackboard, Google Classroom) and IMS standards experience (LTI) is highly preferred.
Previous experience in software engineering, product design, software support
Experience working in an agile and/or lean development environment.
LMS (Canvas, Schoology, Blackboard, Google Classroom) and IMS standards experience (LTI)
Educational industry experience: EdTech, Instructor, Administrator
Benefits
Medical benefits
Other benefits
Company
McGraw Hill
We are a leading global education company that partners with millions of educators, learners and professionals around the world.
1,001-5,000 employees
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2022 (37)
2021 (26)
2020 (33)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2021-09-30Private Equity· Undisclosed
2021-06-15Acquired· by Platinum Equity ($4.5B)
2012-03-13Private Equity· Undisclosed
Leadership Team
Lloyd G. Waterhouse
CEO & President
Simon Allen
CEO
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