Job Description :
Responsibilities:
Leads product definition and prioritization by working with business stakeholders, developers, and internal/external customers
Responsible for developing, defining and owning the product vision and strategy with knowledge of B2B EDI.
Identify and propose enhancements to improve the manual process .
Effectively collaborate and communicate product roadmap, project status, sprint reviews, and issues to accounting operations, executive management, and other stakeholders as necessary.
Participates/facilitates agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Demonstrations and Retrospectives
Engages the development teams on agile values, principles and practices
Maintains feature backlog and life cycle of features from inception to completion
Assists with risk, change and dependency management
Delivers business requirements via artifacts such as epics, features, stories, acceptance criteria, wireframe diagrams, interaction diagrams, mockups/demos, etc
Assist with developing/clarifying the business case and prioritization of features and enhancements
Manages User Requirements sets
Authors User level requirements
Prioritize Requirements
Build upon requirements models
Grooms and prioritizes User Story backlog
Understanding of roles and responsibilities in the agile software development environments
Understanding of web application and web service product architectures and basic features
Qualifications:
Facilitation skills: Ability to facilitate meetings and requirements definition and be a liaison between internal/external customers, developers and stakeholders
Analytical skills: Detail oriented with ability to critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a more general understanding, distinguish presented user requests from the underlying true needs, and distinguish solution ideas from requirements.
Organizational skills: Ability to work with the vast array of information gathered during requirements analysis and to exercise flexibility with changing business priorities
Interpersonal skills: Ability to help negotiate priorities and to resolve conflicts among representatives from various business and development teams
Team skills: Works well with others; delivers positive energy to their team
Time Management skills: Ability to work in a fast paced team environment and consistently meet deadlines and work independently with minimal supervision
Modeling skills: Ability to represent requirements in graphical forms that clarify and augment written requirements
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree or related experience preferred
At least five years of Product Manager experience
Knowledge that’s a Plus:
Experience working with globally distributed scrum teams
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and/or other Agile/Scrum certifications
Requires general business skills, industry knowledge on distribution, logistics, and planning skills, long-term vision, and executive presence
Experienced in Agile tools like TFS or Jira