Jenzabar
Our higher education SIS, ERP, cloud, and analytics solutions drive digital transformation and enable student success.
Product Manager IV
Location
United States
Posted
47 days ago
Salary
$70K - $84K / year
Bachelor Degree6 yrs expEnglishSQL
Job Description
• Define and clearly communicate vision, strategy, and roadmap for the product.
• Evangelize to both internal and external constituents ensuring a strong connection to the product.
• Balance module priorities with overall PD Team and Corporate goals.
• Provide leadership to project development team consisting of UX, QA, Dev, Doc, DB throughout the development process.
• Accountable for the creation and integrity of the product backlog.
• Leads grooming of the product backlog.
• Gather market requirements and product feedback from both internal and external Stakeholders including cultivating and developing a Product Advisory Group comprised of key client constituents.
• Develop product area Epic, Feature and User Stories that operationalize product vision.
• Work closely with User Experience to ensure that final product designs clearly execute the vision.
• Coordinate the development of personas with UX Designer to ensure that Stakeholders clearly understand the users & user stories.
• Show proficient communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written.
• Write and maintain functional requirement documents, detailing descriptions of user needs and necessary acceptance criteria to ensure efficient & precise development.
• Work closely with Technical Documentation team to develop reference guides & online help.
• Triage incoming outreach from internal/external constituents and process to correct resource as needed.
• Complete Hotfix testing as warranted.
• Attend company events, often providing “educational sessions” to staff and clients.
• Share product vision, User Stories and RFP Support for Sales/Solutions Experts/Marketing.
• Maintains Professional and Functional knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks and participating in professional societies.
• Attend tradeshows/conferences representing corporate and product goals.
• Support Developers responding to critical issues brought forward by Services and Support Analyst who need more technical support.
• Maintain transparency regarding roadmap Epics/Features and confidently explain “why” to various stakeholders and constituents.
• Skillful use of developed software functionality.
• Coordinate with Stakeholders to develop a roll-out process that includes Support, Services, Sales/Account Managers, etc.
• Coordinates with PD Management to support product direction.
• Must be comfortable working autonomously without support at any time throughout a project.
• Facilitate “Gemba Walks” to learn directly from the source, the user stories and usability of the software.
• Demonstrate leadership across Product Development teams.
• Provides leadership for other PM team members.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Education, Higher Education Administration, Computer Science or related field.
- 6+ years’ experience working at an Accredited College/University.
- 6+ years’ experience in a Product Manager role in a related field.
- Demonstrate excellent organizational skills, including the ability to work effectively and independently in an atmosphere of multiple projects, across multiple products.
- Must have excellent team building and problem-solving skills with comfortability working in a deadline driven environment.
- Ability to be innovative, creative, strategic, analytical, and think outside the box when problem-solving.
- Familiarity with Relational Database schema & Basic SQL queries are helpful.
Benefits
- Medical Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- PTO
- Paid Parental Leave
- Paid Holidays
- Short Term Disability
- Long Term Disability
- 401K
- Educational Assistance