Technical Product Manager

Job Title : Technical Product Manager

Job Location : OPEN TO DIGITAL HUBS IN ATL OR MNPLS ONLY (Hybrid || Days Onsite and Days Remote)

Contract Duration : + Months Contract ||  OPEN TO FTE CONVERSION || OPEN TO ASSIGNMENT EXTENSION

Job Description :

• Work with product, design, and operations teams to deliver innovative ways to serve our learners.
• Supports what products to make, ensuring those products get made and reporting back on how users respond to products.
• Works with partners like engineering and design teams to strategically plan products and their development
• Works with external third parties to assess partnerships and licensing opportunities runs beta and pilot programs with early-stage products and samples and becomes an expert with respect to the competition.
• Demonstrated ability as a technical product manager, product owner, or solutions architect.
• Proven experience as a software engineer, data engineer or SDET.
• Technical fluency - Ability to understand, discuss, and challenge architectural concepts, trade offs, and new opportunities with technical team members. Understand technical issues well enough to make the right decisions about prioritizing not only new product features but also reducing technical debt or improving resiliency.
• Excellent written and verbal communication of ideas, narratives and complex technical information to a broad audience including, but not limited to : executives, stakeholders and engineers.

Responsibilities :

SKILLS REQUIRED : Good program management skill, technical understanding, research / analysis, and power point ability. Solid product management skills, a technology background would be very beneficial, good power point skills, good communication skills. Ability to perform research and analysis – interview stakeholders, collect and gather data that can be analyzed and put into power points. Assist in program management efforts on specific initiatives. Experienced in a highly matrixed org a plus. MUST HAVE : Experience in MS Office, power point especially Jira.

RED FLAGS FOR CANDIDATES : People without solid digital experience. They need to have a good understanding of digital. Generic product management skillset won’t cut it. They also need to be very familiar with program and project management.

WHO THIS PERSON WILL INTERACT WITH : Hiring Manager (will report directly to, Sr. VP of Digital Servicing and Maintenance Org), their peers, and the offshore product team. Also people in the business lines. Team consists of other product managers ( in ATL).

INTERVIEW PROCESS EXPECATIONS : No walk-through or demo. Just Q&A. Interviews will be with HM and one of his direct reports. Will be remote interview. Camera on and required.