Product Manager
Sinclair Inc. · Hunt Valley, MD · Today
Marketing$110k–$127k/yrFull-time
Key Responsibilities
- Define and maintain product vision, roadmaps, and outcome-based priorities for assigned applications.
- Balance new capabilities, technical debt, operational stability, compliance, and user experience.
- Engage business users and leaders to understand workflows, pain points, opportunities, and success measures.
- Translate insights into clear, actionable requirements and product decisions.
- Own and prioritize the product backlog using business value, risk, effort, dependencies, and strategic alignment.
- Ensure planned work is sufficiently refined for delivery teams and stakeholders have transparent visibility into priorities.
- Work closely with internal development, QA, architecture, and delivery teams throughout discovery, design, development, testing, release, and adoption.
- Provide timely decisions and clarifications during Agile ceremonies.
- Lead the business and product relationship for third-party applications, including vendor coordination, release-impact assessment, roadmap alignment, support escalation, and evaluation of configuration or enhancement opportunities.
- Create and maintain product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, user experience mock-ups, release communications, and other artifacts needed to align delivery and business teams.
- Partner with production support and vendors to monitor service health, triage issues, communicate business impact, and prioritize corrective work.
- Help ensure a disciplined transition from delivery to sustainable support.
- Plan and coordinate user acceptance testing, gather feedback, validate outcomes, and support rollout readiness, training, and adoption activities.
- Define and use product, operational, and adoption metrics to assess performance, identify trends, and drive continuous improvement.
Required Experience And Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, business, computer science, or a related field; equivalent experience will be considered.
- Five or more years of product management, product ownership, business analysis, or comparable experience supporting enterprise applications.
- Experience managing a mix of custom-developed applications, integrations and third-party SaaS or packaged software.
- Strong ability to turn business needs into well-structured requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and product documentation.
- Demonstrated ability to prioritize competing demands using data, business value, risk, and operational impact.
- Working knowledge of Agile delivery practices, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
- Comfort working with software vendors on product roadmaps, support escalations, releases, and enhancement requests.
- Strong analytical, communication, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills; able to lead through influence rather than formal authority.
- Able to understand and troubleshoot complex software workflows and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- A customer-focused, curious, adaptable approach and commitment to continuous learning and improvement.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting enterprise business systems in a complex, multi-stakeholder organization.
- Experience with product analytics, service management, or application lifecycle management tools (Azure DevOps experience preferred).
- Experience coordinating Tier 2 support activities and working across internal delivery teams and external vendors.