Product Manager

Product Manager

The Product Manager is responsible for managing research and development activities relating to the design and development of i3 Verticals software products and qualification or re-qualification of new and existing products.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities include :

• Gains a thorough understanding of customer needs and uses that knowledge to help deliver products that provide customers with an unparalleled experience.
• Understand customers' quality expectations, including issues they see in the current environment with respect to usability, reliability, security, and data integrity and define training and support requirements.
• Monitors research as well as the competitive landscape to recommend the best solutions and ensure that products remain or become best in class.
• Evaluates research and market analysis on industry innovations and technology platforms to recommend the best possible solution.
• Translates business goals and end user needs as defined by the product roadmap committee into product strategy.
• Identifies pros, cons, issues, obstacles, dependencies, and value associated with features and enhancements.
• Manage the product roadmap portfolio with a common approach.
• Identifies goals, metrics, and analytics to determine product value; continually making recommendations and refinements to the product backlog based on learnings.
• Partner with design and development teams to identify and create solutions and rank product features to meet intended customer outcomes within a specific product portfolio.
• Communicate product feature releases and backlog items with the relevant cross-functional groups at the appropriate times.
• Conduct end user research to help identify user stories and help determine Minimum Viable Product (MVP).
• Partners with Finance to understand financial needs and assists in the creation of business plans for new opportunities.
• Condenses complex technical concepts into non-technical language for stakeholders.
• Exhibit active listening, facilitate sessions, and clearly communicate at all levels (Executive Leadership Team, vertical leaders, etc.) and in all formats the product's long-term strategy which is used to prioritize short-term action.
• Champion the use of common source components versus building duplicate functionalities, reducing technical debt while driving new capabilities.

Minimum Qualifications (Education and Experience) include :

Not currently recruiting from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, Ohio, Rhode Island, Washington, or New York state.