Product Manager (Short Hills)

The Product Manager will serve as a product champion and pivotal leader, driving the delivery of strategic imperatives in a SAFe environment. This role involves collaborating with stakeholders, defining product strategy, and ensuring alignment between business goals and program development plans. The ideal candidate will have a strong product mindset, leadership skills, and the ability to foster innovation and accountability.

• Interprets and synthesizes product strategy into a clear, inspirational, and actionable vision providing a foundation for development and delivery across an agile program. Translates vision and development plans to a value-based, iterative roadmap communicating business and customer outcomes on a relevant timeline.
• Owns end to end value delivery and outcomes at the program level, collaborating with product leaders, IT leaders, business leaders, stakeholders, and teams to ensure alignment between strategic goals and program development plans.
• Acts as chief customer advocate and proxy, leading engagement with internal and external customers to understand needs, construct and optimize feedback mechanisms, and incorporate outcomes in product and program vision.
• Conducts and participates in market and competitive research efforts, introducing applicable findings in development of product initiatives.
• Identifies and directs collection of relevant data, guiding and performing refinement and analysis for informed decision making. Employs an economic view, assessing cost, benefit, and business value in determination of product and program priorities.
• Leads development and enrichment of a product mindset, ensuring understanding and alignment with product strategy across an agile program and the organization. Promotes innovation and guides navigation of ambiguity and embracing change. Leads a team of Product Owners within an agile program by providing clear direction, fostering collaboration, empowering decision-making, and removing obstacles to ensure success.
• Owns, manages, and regularly prioritizes the program level / feature backlog. Directs refinement of features in collaboration with Product Owners, IT leads, end users, customers, stakeholders, and partners.
• Aligns and directs demonstration of business value for product leadership, business partners, stakeholders, end users, and customers; guides the program in agile ceremonies, program planning, assignment of business value, defect prioritization, and continuous improvement activities.
• Proactively manages inter- and intra-program dependencies, collaborating with program leaders, aligning prioritization, and communicating impacts as appropriate.
• Measures, tracks, and communicates outcomes and provides status reporting at the program level.