Associate Product Manager

About the role

The Associate Product Manager supports the Transformation Office product management function by assisting with intake, discovery, documentation, and demand package quality across business and IT transformation initiatives. This role helps translate early business needs into clear problem statements, stakeholder inputs, success measures, and execution-ready materials for review and handoff.

Responsibilities

• Support the intake process by documenting business requests, clarifying initial needs, and organizing discovery materials.
• Aid Product Managers with stakeholder interviews, meeting notes, follow-ups, and synthesis of business pain points, outcomes, and scope boundaries.
• Help define and maintain business problem statements, desired outcomes, assumptions, dependencies, and open questions.
• Support demand package preparation to ensure Program Management, Architecture, Solution teams, and delivery partners receive clear and complete information.
• Maintain backlog and intake quality by ensuring requests are understandable, appropriately categorized, and ready for review.
• Cook up coordination with cross-functional stakeholders to collect inputs, validate documentation, and track follow-up items from discovery sessions.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of templates, intake artifacts, and discovery processes within the Transformation Office.

Requirements

• Strong ability to organize complex information into clear, business-friendly materials.
• Demonstrated analytical, communication, and follow-through skills.
• Ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams across business and IT environments.
• Foundational understanding of Agile, Waterfall, product, project, or transformation delivery concepts.
• Capability to support stakeholder discussions, requirements gathering, documentation, and process analysis.

Other Requirements

• 2–5 years of experience in business analysis, product management, project coordination, process improvement, consulting, or technology-enabled transformation.
• Preferred Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Experience with enterprise systems or workflow tools such as CRM, ERP, ServiceNow, Workday, Planview, WMS, or similar platforms.
• Exposure to business process mapping, SIPOC, value stream thinking, or operating model transformation.
• Experience preparing executive-ready materials, intake documentation, or product discovery artifacts.
• Foundation knowledge of data literacy, user research methods, and design thinking principles.
• Familiarity with AI concepts and how emerging technologies influence business transformation.
• Experience supporting or facilitating workshops, discovery sessions, or cross-functional working groups.
• Experience with Jira Product Discovery or similar product discovery and backlog management tools.
• Exposure to sales processes, marketing processes, or go-to-market workflows within enterprise environments.

Pay and Benefits

The estimated annual pay range for this position is $110,000 - $140,000 which includes a base salary. The compensation for this position is dependent on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location and, therefore, will vary from individual to individual. Benefits may include, but are not limited to, medical, vision, dental, 401K, and flexible spending.