Product Manager

Product Strategy & Roadmap

Define product outcomes and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), break down work into actionable steps to facilitate product discovery, design, development, and delivery.
Manage an end-to-end product lifecycle by implementing a Now, Next, and Later framework that captures a rolling 12-month product roadmap.
Stay abreast of industry trends, competitive landscape changes, recommend new technological trends, and innovative products/features to the teams.

Stakeholder Management & Collaboration

Partner with key stakeholders to identify and prioritize new features and enhancements and record them in Jira.
Influence product decisions by providing consultation and direction to stakeholders.
Manage a room with various stakeholders and drive ROI discussions to justify work.

Product Discovery & Customer Insights

Identify, analyze, and interpret new requests using various kinds of techniques to meet customer and internal stakeholder needs and requirements.
Talk to customers to understand pain points, new feature opportunities, showcase product capabilities, and go-to-market strategies.
Acts as the voice of the customer.

Design & Prototyping

Work with various partners to create screen prototypes/wireframes, gather feedback, and adjust to optimize performance.

Agile Delivery & Backlog Management

Work with the Agile Development Team and Scrum Master, lead backlog planning and grooming, and support Release planning.
Maintain the sprint backlog: refine, estimate, and prioritize work.
Collaborate with BSAs, developers, testers, and UX to clarify requirements.
Participate in daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
Use tools such as AHA, ProductBoard, or Jira Aligned to manage product backlog.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related disciplines.
  4+ years of experience as a product manager/owner.
  Experience in the financial services or banking industry is a plus.
  Experience with Agile and/or SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) in a product owner role.

Skills & Abilities

• Can do attitude!
  High energy, self-motivated, & strategic thinker
  Strong customer centricity to implement strategies and techniques used to ensure that customers and internal business partners have a positive experience with GreatAmerica products and services at every touch point.
  Ability to anticipate shifting market priorities, internal and external customer needs in a manner that consistently adds value.
  Ability to deep dive and lead complex product discovery, requirements gathering & design sessions.
  Ability to plan and sequence work that captures dependencies and synchronizes resources to achieve business results using key performance indicators.
  Strong presentation & communication skills (verbal and written).

Computer Skills

• Advanced knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite

Financial Benefits

• Competitive Compensation
• Monthly Bonuses for Eligible Employees
• 401(k) and Company Match
• Annual Profit Sharing
• Paid Time Off
• Health, Wellbeing, And Family Planning Benefits

Perks

• Paid Parking
• Hybrid work arrangements
• Business casual environment

Leadership Development Opportunities

• Leadership Development Opportunities