Description:

Responsibilities: Responsible for the product planning and execution throughout the product lifecycle, including: Gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements Defining the product vision Ensuring that the product supports the comSkillsExperience and Skill Set Requirements

Project Manager / Leader (Product Manager) - Senior, Evaluation Criteria Breakdown

Relationship Management - 35%

· Demonstrated experience in communication and mediation skills with business teams and core team members to ensure Client products are progressing according to schedule or product road map

· Demonstrated experience in team building, consensus building and relationship management skills

· Experience with strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of products Discovery, Alpha, Beta, Live or similar delivery methodologies

Product Management Knowledge, Risks, Issues, Scheduling & Reporting - 35%

· Experience with identification to risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.

· Ability to articulate and prioritize issues and risks at program management and senior executive level and recommend mitigation strategies for decision makers

· Ability to create and maintain a product road map which describes how your product is likely to evolve over time.

· Ability to delivery on a product with a balanced team (product owner, user experience designers, developers) utilizing Agile (SCRUM) delivery methodologies. Scrum master experience is preferred.

· Experience gathering and developing requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed product schedule and/or integrated plan

· Experience with product program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels;

· Experience with participating in steering committee and stakeholder forums.

Technical Skills - 10%

· Basic Knowledge in Microsoft Azure cloud platform

· Knowledge of online collaboration tools such as MIRO, Atlassian Confluence and Trello, Microsoft Office 365, Google Drive, Zoom, Slack and Microsoft Teams

· Knowledge of Backlog Management tools such as JIRA, Azure DevOps, Pivotal Tracker

Soft skills - 20%

· Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills

· Strong presentation, verbal and written communication skills

· Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills

· A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines and delivering high profile, high risk, complex initiatives

Must haves: Demonstrated experience in communication and mediation skills with business teams and core team members to ensure Client products are progressing according to schedule or product road map