Senior Product Manager
6 months, potential to extend
3 days onsite in Seattle, WA - required
Must have a PMP, master data management, and experience with integrations/data platforms.
Daily Responsibilities:
- Responsibilities and essential job functions include but are not limited to the following:
- Oversees tactical planning and day-to-day management of one or more programs in the IT portfolio.
- Collaborates with IT and business leadership on strategic planning for the program.
- In partnership with the program portfolio manager, engages stakeholders on project ideation and assists in the creation of business cases and return on investment assessments.
- Develops a deep understanding of projects within the program and the broader IT portfolio; manages assigned projects with a clear understanding of business and IT context, and develops supporting artifacts such as forecast, project plan, etc.
- Ensures alignment of proposed projects with the program roadmap and its goals and manages project planning and execution accordingly.
- Drives complex, cross-functional enterprise projects, leading multiple efforts within a specific program simultaneously, with complexity as a limiting factor.
- Leads high performing, cross-functional, often globally distributed teams.
- Works independently, without the need for day-to-day guidance.
- Provides active project management and ownership for initiatives within the program.
- Performs core project management duties, including guiding the project through formal approval and funding gates; developing a project plan that includes a detailed budget, project timeline, detailed task-driven schedule, project RACI and resource plan, and communication plan; and managing project execution from analysis/design, develop, test & deployment.
- When leading an Agile project, partners closely with the scrum master and product owner on all activities.
- Ensures that program and project status reports and quarterly updates are relevant, transparent, and add value.
- Partners with relevant IT and business hiring managers to ensure that the project has the skillsets and the resources required for delivery.
Technology requirements?:
- Scrum
- Experienced in master data management and the ingestion/syndication / focus on data integration to enterprise systems
Years experience?:
- Experienced as a senior project manager in technology or in a software development setting (5+ years)
- Experienced working in technology or in a software development setting (5+ years)
- Experienced with data optimization and enabling data focused enterprise solutions (5+ years)
Required background? Skills?:
- Proactive, detailed driver, comfortable with navigating ambiguity
- Active ownership & accountability of project financials – budget ownership
- Experienced using Agile methods and working on complex, integrated platforms within a matrixed environment required.
Degree or certifications required?: PMP - program & project management
