Senior Staff Technical Product Manager

Job Description Summary

Responsible for operating in lock-step with product management teams to create a clear strategic direction for development needs and conveys that vision to the build and/or operations team. You will direct the team with a clear and descriptive set of requirements and partner with the team to determine what can be delivered through balancing the need for new features, defects, and technical debt. Your priority is seamless integration and alignment of perspectives from a broad set of stakeholders: Product Managers, Technical Anchors, Product Owners and Developers.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Lead the functional and technical implementation of customer projects on Digital Experience Platforms in the Adobe Experience Manager technology stac

• ​Capture business requirements and design functional specifications, project release plans/roadmaps, and providing comprehensive consulting on technical implementation options.

• Transform complex roadmaps into milestones and prioritize epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.

• Take responsibility for successful collaboration between marketing teams, development teams, and other internal stakeholders, thereby enhancing the efficiency of our cross-disciplinary teams.

• Advise on technical implementation options in close collaboration with the development teams.

• Lead the preparation and facilitation of project meetings for both marketing, and internal projects.

• Manage stakeholder communication as well as project schedules, budgets, and implementation plans and ensure high-quality project delivery on time and on budget

• Experience in successfully executing technical projects from concept to implementation.

• Excellent communication and problem solving skills and the ability to understand, prioritize, analyze, and communicate business problems to developers.

• Excellent skills in team coordination, leadership, and project management.

• Proactively identify potential project risks and develop strategies to minimize them.

• Effectively manage vendor partners, the contractor team and maintains communications with them

• Demonstrate superior product and industry knowledge and helps organization to gain the competitive edge.

• Interacts with customers/stakeholders in VOC requirements-gathering, fine tuning, and obtaining product feedback.

• Possesses a deep understanding of the technology stack and impact on final product.

• Routinely collaborates with UX, Architecture and engineering teams on multiple issues and decisions.

• Demonstrates expert persuasion and influencing skills that ensure alignment between customer, product manager and engineering teams.

• Owns the release and sprint backlogs short-term roadmap for MVPs and quarterly releases.

• Owns and manages the backlog; continuously orders and prioritizes to ensure that 1-2 sprints/iterations of backlog are always ready.

• Translates unstructured or ambiguous work requests into actionable user stories and work units.

• Partners with Development Leadership to ensure healthy development process.

• Mentors junior team members

• Provide technical leadership to TPMs across organization. Expert in Agile Methodology: Coaches others.

Education Qualification

• Bachelor's Degree in with 10+ years of experience.

Desired Characteristics/Technical Expertise:

• Strong knowledge of software design and coding principles

• Experience working in an Agile environment

• Familiarity with versatile implementation options

• Demonstrates knowledge on technical topics, such as caching, APIs, data transfer, scalability, and security

Business Acumen:

• Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems

• Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts

• Has the ability to analyze impact of technology choices

• Skilled in negotiation to align stakeholders and communicate a single synthesized perspective to the scrum team. Balances value propositions for competing stakeholders.

• Demonstrates knowledge of the competitive environment

• Demonstrates knowledge of technologies in the market to help make buy vs build recommendations, scope MVPs, and to drive market timing decisions

Leadership:

• Influences through others; builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas. Pre-emptively sees downstream consequences and effectively tailors influencing strategy to support a positive outcome.

• Able to verbalize what is behind decisions and downstream implications. Continuously reflecting on success and failures to improve performance and decision-making.

• Understands when change is needed. Participates in technical strategy planning.

Personal Attributes:

• Able to effectively direct and mentor others in critical thinking skills. Proactively engages with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking and analysis skills and best practices. Finds important patterns in seemingly unrelated information.

• Influences and energizes other toward the common vision and goal. Maintains excitement for a process and drives to new directions of meeting the goal even when odds and setbacks render one path impassable.

• Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to significantly add value to GE. Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly. Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address seemingly unanswerable problems.

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