Technical Product Manager

Job Summary

We are looking for a remote Sr. Technical Product Manager with ESG experience for a 6+ month project for our client. Candidates must be able to support PST hours.

Qualifications

• ESG experience is required

• Knowledge of carbon calculators

• Understanding of Databricks

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a related field

• Demonstrated ability to use analytics and optimization tools to inform product planning and prioritization (5 years)

• Demonstrated ability to work with design and engineering to deliver customer facing features (5 years)

• Hands on experience in developing roadmaps, priorities, features, story outlines, writing user stories, refining product backlogs, and coordinating/prioritizing conflicting requirements in a fast-paced, changing environment with variety of stakeholders (5 years)

• Industry experience in a technology environment with a record of successfully delivering complex products (7+ years)

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years of industry experience in a technology environment with a record of successfully delivering complex products

• Experience with database management, enterprise supportability, data connectivity, dimensional data sets.

• Hands on experience in developing technical roadmaps, story outlines, writing user stories, refining product backlogs, and coordinating/prioritizing conflicting requirements in a fast-paced, changing environment

• Experience leading, strategizing, and understanding data integrations and the ability to build data sets to meet multiple use cases that are usable, understandable, and supportable.

• Ability to read and understand programming languages

• Strong verbal and written communications skills, ability to quickly master new systems and/or processes, capacity to stay organized while managing competing priorities

• Detail- and results-oriented, able to analyze data to justify product decisions and apply key learnings.

• Ability to thoroughly understand complex business and technical issues and influence decision making

• Ability to plan for and review technical programming specifications

• Ability to apply knowledge of multidisciplinary business principles and practices to achieve successful outcomes in cross-functional projects and activities

• Strong verbal and written communications skills

• Consistently uses communications skills to influence outcomes

• Ability to influence others without authority to get things done in a timely fashion

• Ability to balance multiple priorities and meet deadlines

• Strong knowledge of agile development practices, methodologies, and tools

• Experience with retail data more specifically and understanding in how a retail store, fast casual operates preferred

Responsibilities

• Manages product planning and development through day to day collaboration and decision making with a crossfunctional team including architects, developers, designers and business or subject matter representatives

• Translates customer experience into technical requirements and product solutions

• Drives technical solution for large features/technically complex features independently.

• Is technically adept on end-to-end system architecture

• Creates data flows and functional and technical specifications as needed

• Responsible for defining the acceptance criteria of a product feature

• Responsible for documentation of requirements, and acceptance criteria per process, provides guidance to others in working team

• Works with producers, engineering, and QA to align on feature sizing and delivery planning

• Ensures engineering team has needed information on endpoints, inputs and outputs

• Helps resolve technical blocking issues and coordinates solutions across multiple technical teams

• Performs validation of feature against customer and business goals and acceptance criteria

• Determines technical feasibility, dependencies, and constraints of features with support from neighboring technology teams as needed.

• Identifies technical tradeoffs, escalates risks, and manages mitigation in collaboration with neighbor ST teams

• Communicates effectively with technology and business teams independently

• Acts as a coach/mentor to team on various Technical Product Manager competencies

• Works with engineering to define technical solution for experiment definition

• Defines product performance and effectiveness metrics that measure and benchmark product success.

• Monitors feature performance to find opportunities to address continuous improvement.

• Drives optimization and process improvements between product, design, and development teams

• Stays abreast of new technology capabilities and leverages knowledge in contributing to product solutions.

• Recommends and plans innovative products and features.

• Works with Product Managers to scope and prioritize upcoming projects into the roadmap

• Manages a cross-team digital product roadmap

• Builds effective relationships with key internal engineering, product and design teams