Product Manager - TX or PA

About the role

Our Product team leads the direction, coordination, output, quality, and enhancements to PowerSchool’s product portfolio. This dynamic, multi-functional team ensures the effective rollout of new products across the platform, packages and positions products to appeal to consumers, and helps set the future direction and pace of innovation in our organization.

Responsibilities

• Manage the cross-functional development scope with Product Managers, Product Owners and Scrum teams.
• Support the product manager in the development of product vision, goals, themes and features.
• Translate product directives into backlog items, effectively representing customer needs.
• Work closely with Development on implementation issues.
• Review QA test plans to align with acceptance criteria.
• Communicate the product vision to the technical teams as well as to other teams within the company.
• Ensure the correct features are being developed, considering the value being delivered against the cost of delivery.
• Provide weekly reports on project status to Senior Management.
• Monitor and identify impediments to release objectives and suggest corrective actions as necessary.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years of relevant and related work experience.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, or equivalent years of relevant work experience.
• Excellent understanding of Agile Values and Scrum Methodology.
• Excellent ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Excellent ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including upper management, clients, and other departments.
• Excellent ability to handle a heavy workload with multiple projects and frequent interruptions.
• Excellent ability to work in a changing, dynamic environment.
• Strong attention to accuracy and detail, while still results oriented.
• Strong knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodology practices.
• Strong problem solving, conflict resolution, interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Experience with business analysis, documenting use cases or requirements gathering.