Junior Product Manager
Location: Irving Texas
Schedule: 40 hours, Fully Onsite
Length: 6 month contract
Pay: $43-48/hr DOE
Junior Product Manager Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree
- Knowledge of digital/agile product management
- Willingness to learn how to translate customer needs into product features and user interface design, tools such as JIRA, Confluence, wireframing and analytics software
Junior Product Manager Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree in Product Management, Computer Science or Engineering
- Experience in retail or e-commerce platforms
Junior Product Manager Responsibilities:25% Strategy & Planning:
- Seeks to empathize with and understand the end user deeply and use that knowledge to determine the fastest path to deliver value
- Translates business goals and end user needs into product strategy; communicates direction and product priorities to the development team, other matrixed teams, and third-party partners
- Identifies goals, metrics and analytics to determine product value; continually makes recommendations and refinements to the product backlog based on learnings
- Manages and grooms the product backlog; makes future decisions based on the value that will be delivered
- Monitors research as well as the competitive landscape to recommend the best solutions and ensure that products remain or become best in class
- Ensures that product directions balance both the user needs and business goals of driving sales, improving efficiency and enhancing customer satisfaction
50% Delivery & Execution:
- Works with user research and testing team to formulate, test and refine assumptions and hypotheses through user research and testing
- Creates, prioritizes and accepts user stories; incorporates them into release planning
- Makes product decisions that drive value on a daily basis
- Identifies and considers pros, cons, issues, obstacles, dependencies and value associated with features and enhancements
- Condenses complex technical concepts into non-technical language for stakeholders
25% Team & Stakeholder:
- Act as a bridge between product teams and other departments (engineering, UX, marketing, etc.)
- Ensure the team communicates effectively and delivers on commitments.
- Acts as a proponent of modern agile development practices
- Advocates for the end user and stakeholder by becoming associated with the product, empathizing with and understanding user needs
- Manages cross functional team and stakeholder expectations to execute on product strategy and provides education to requestors to determine prioritization based on tangible benefits and/or user experience
- Responsible for talent acquisition, development and retention activities
