Senior Product Manager
ICON · Austin, TX · 1 mo ago
On-siteMarketingFull-time
Responsibilities
- Sprint and Release Execution: Plan sprints, track progress, and coordinate releases with the engineering team.
- Plans and Reporting: Keep Jira plans, capacity, epic status, and risk logs current. Send weekly updates that give leadership a clear picture without follow-up questions.
- Cross-Team Dependencies: Spot blockers early and help resolve them. Coordinate work across software, robotics, field operations, and business development.
- Field Requests: Help the team respond to requests from active construction projects without losing focus on planned work. Sort what is urgent, what can wait, and who needs to weigh in.
- Roadmap Partnership: Work with the Director of Digital Product Experience to shape the roadmap and make tradeoffs. Bring real delivery data into planning conversations.
- Help break large goals into sprint-ready work with engineering leads.
- Risk and Decisions: Track what is slipping, what is blocked, and what needs a decision. Share options clearly so leaders can move quickly.
- Capacity and Quarterly Planning: Model capacity, sequence work, and check timelines during quarterly planning. Watch for workload that may lead to burnout and raise it early.
- Process and Team Health: Improve practices that slow the team down. Onboard new team members into how the team plans and ships.
- Mentorship and Cross-Functional Leadership: Coach other program managers and partners on planning practices that work. Advise cross-functional partners on delivery and prioritization questions.
- Strategic Alignment: Connect team work to company-wide Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) so the day-to-day moves bigger goals forward.
Qualifications
- 8+ years in product management, technical program management, or a hybrid role, with at least 2 years in a senior or lead role.
- Track record running delivery for a software product with multiple teams or modules.
- Strong fluency with Jira or similar tools. You have managed backlogs, sprint plans, and roadmaps at scale.
- Experience coordinating work between software and hardware, operations, or field teams.
- Clear communication across audiences. You can share a short update with a VP and dig into scope with an engineer in the same hour.
- A history of protecting team capacity while keeping partner trust.
- Comfort with shifting priorities. Construction work does not wait for a sprint to end.
- Working knowledge of agile practices.
- Strong written and verbal communication.
- Ability to explain delivery status and tradeoffs to non-technical audiences and senior leaders.
- Curiosity and a steady appetite to learn.