Product Manager, Championships & Communications

Job Function

The NCAA is currently looking for a Product Manager who will drive the future of business and technology solutions for the 90+ NCAA Championships & the Public Relations area. This senior level role is responsible for driving the product vision, strategy and roadmap for these business areas within the NCAA.

Job Responsibilities

• Stakeholder Engagement
  • Integrate capability mapping analysis into project planning and strategic roadmap development through partner immersion techniques.
  • Collaborate across business functions to identify opportunities for synergy, advocate for shared responsibility, and guide organizational change.
  • Participate in monthly partner portfolio reviews with leadership to advance capability needs and prioritization.
  • Educate internal and external stakeholders, providing strategic insights about partner objectives, and articulating solutions, timelines, and constraints.
  • Surface, shape and profile opportunities with highest value to advance organizational goals.
• Business Architecture
  • Analyze data to recommend the best path for solving business problems that may include process improvement, systems enhancement, user training, and technology procurement.
  • Craft clear, concise, and compelling messaging to engage and educate partners on complex IT concepts in an easy-to-understand way, as well as understand the tools and channels to best deliver messaging.
  • Create technology business models illustrating how products, operations, and systems interoperate within the organization.
  • Coach business partners to articulate functional need through applied business architecture methodology to ensure results-oriented deliverables.
• Product Ownership
  • Ensure technical direction aligns with business goals and guides the product overall roadmap.
  • Facilitate business case development (what we want to do).
  • Drives the product vision to the Agile teams via the creation of Epic/Feature/User Story(s) based on the defined business case (to clarify what and why) with clear acceptance criteria.
  • Maintain the product backlog via grooming and prioritization exercises to relay voice of the partner.
  • Participate in Release Definition and planning of epic/feature/user story delivery.
  • Validate/approve the delivered Features/User Stories from the agile team upon completion and ensure they meet high-quality software standards.
  • Participate in monthly portfolio reviews.
  • Manage the Agile development team by leveraging leadership skills to guide and inspire the team but allow the team to determine how to deliver the solution.
  • Provide mentorship by utilizing technical expertise.
  • Encourage technical innovation to deliver on business needs and solutions.
  • Holds vendors providing outsourced Agile team resources accountable to adhere to defined standards and deliver upon defined SLA’s.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or combination of education and equivalent work experience
• 3-5 years of Business Analysis/Architecture or equivalent experience
• 3-5 years of IT Software Development and/or Delivery experience. 10+ years of experience highly preferred.
• Experience with UX/UI principles preferred
• Experience implementing large-scale, complex business and IT projects
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to drive innovative solutions
• Creative problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically
• Experience with Agile methodologies and tools (Scrum preferred)

Key Competencies

• Drives Vision and Purpose
• Effective Communication
• Stakeholder Focus
• Motivating Others
• Strategic Agility

Core Values

• Leadership
• Inclusion
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Accountability

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