Technical Product manager
Posted 2 weeks ago by 1752743289
Negotiable
Outside
Remote
USA
Summary: The Technical Product Manager role is a long-term contract position focused on driving product vision and strategy within the automotive or eCommerce sectors. The candidate must possess technical expertise in Product Information Management (PIM) and Informatica MDM, with a strong emphasis on collaboration and user-centered design. Responsibilities include leading ideation workshops, developing product roadmaps, and ensuring alignment with customer needs and market trends. The position requires a proven track record in agile methodologies and the ability to influence cross-functional teams effectively.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop product vision, strategy, and conduct market/user research with a customer-centric approach.
- Collaborate with cross-functional leaders to drive ideation workshops and identify customer needs and solutions.
- Establish customer journey mapping and validate findings through user testing.
- Translate product vision into a prioritized roadmap with well-defined features.
- Present business cases to C-level executives and lead business reviews.
- Serve as the voice of the customer and align with cross-functional teams.
- Set objective goals for the product using meaningful metrics and KPIs.
- Apply Lean Agile practices to enhance business value delivery.
- Collaborate with product owners and system architects to prioritize objectives.
- Maintain competitive advantage by staying updated on market trends.
- Build trusting relationships with clients, teams, and vendors.
- Inspire and mentor high-performing teams of Product Analysts.
Key Skills:
- 7+ years of professional experience in product management.
- Expertise in PIM systems and Informatica MDM.
- Mastery of Lean Agile methodologies and continuous delivery principles.
- Proven success in creating digital product vision and strategy.
- Ability to collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams.
- Experience leading Program Increment (PI) cycles.
- Strong prioritization and stakeholder management skills.
- Proficiency in defining financials, ROI, and KPIs.
- Strong influencing skills and ability to lead change.
- Certified SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager and Agile Product Manager designations are a plus.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Role: Technical Product Manager Location: Remote
Job Type : Contract - W2 oNLY Duration: Long Term Contract
Job Description:-
Project/Industry Experience:
Automotive experience or general eCommerce experience preferred
- The product manager has to be technical, having PIM experience along with SAPC based experience.
- General PIM expertise + Hybris: The person should have sufficient experience in PIM systems and Hybris experience. The objective here is that with extensive PIM+hybris experience, the person can pick up P360/informatica MDM requirements below.
- Informatica MDM/P360: The P360 is Informatica s PIM solution. If they have expertise in the specific tool, we will take this experience over any other experience. If the person has in-depth Informatica MDM experience, that will work too.
Develop product vision, strategy, market /user research by keeping customer at the center of everything we do while using design thinking tools.
Collaborate/represent client in driving ideation workshops with cross-functional leaders where you identify new idea s, customer needs, pain paints and solution options
Develop solution hypotheses iteratively, based on user research, industry and market trend analysis.
Establish customer journey mapping to guide product development; then validate that learning with user testing
Translate product vision into a roadmap containing well-defined, prioritized features that will realize the product vision and value.
Validate and present the business case to the C level executives and leads business reviews to ensure the team prioritizes the right features
Serve as a voice of the customer, understanding the customer needs and aligns with the cross functional team
Establish objective goals for the product with success and acceptance criteria using meaningful metrics, KPIs and quantifiable business outcomes.
Masterfully apply Lean Agile practices and frameworks to design and enable solutions or digital transformation initiatives that enhance business value delivery and responsiveness for our clients
Collaborate with product owners, solution managers and cross functional product managers to ensure all product teams are marching towards the same program increment (PI) objectives
Collaborate with system architects to envision and prioritize system enablers
Keeps pace with the market trends and represent client on maintain competitive advantage by continuously learning about the changes in clients business.
Build and maintain a trusting relationship with the client, teams and vendors in a way that earns the respect of team members across their diverse backgrounds: strategy, experience, engineering, and analytics. Develop influence without authority.
Inspire, lead and mentor a high-performing teams for Product Analysts to continually drive improvements in developing and enhancing best-in-class digital products and services.
Background:
7+ years of professional experience
Mastery in techniques and lean agile methodologies that maximize flow of value and are deeply rooted in Agile, Lean and continuous delivery principles, with an ability to extend that understanding throughout the organization.
Proven success creating digital products vision, strategy, experience and enterprise solutions and services from ideation to launch, including engineering and operational quality.
Expertise in working with a multi-disciplinary team on customer-focused products and services to design and build solutions that deliver valuable outcomes.
Proven ability in collaborating and leading Program Increment (PI) cycles.
Significant industry knowledge and expertise within aligned or targeted industry is essential.
Proven ability to prioritize competing demands and obtain buy-in from stakeholders.
Practices lean agile and design thinking principles, led/facilitated workshops to cultivate the ideation.
Ability to define financials, ROI, KPIs, and forecasts with success leveraging data to make decisions about product feature increments
Proven track record of working with senior client stakeholder and diverse teams as a servant leader and steward of economic and customer value.
Mastery in leading change and inspire others to change behaviors
Strong influencer in continuous learning and innovation culture.
Set Yourself Apart With:
Certified SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager designation
Certified Agile Product Manager designation