Technical Product Manager - Roadmap & Strategy

Required Skill Set :

Product manager, Agile development frameworks, Scrum Kanban, Data Science, BI tools, Tableau, Retail domain

Roles & Responsibilities :

- Understand the Product Roadmap and use knowledge of future features to improve current stories and tests.

- Assist in customer adoption through personal interaction and written documentation.

- Identify, escalate, and remove roadblocks, triage defects, and provide clarity from customers on issues

where appropriate.

- Work directly with customers and team members to capture details of Feature requirements, understand

use cases, collect samples, and find tests; apply knowledge of Product and business drivers to enhance work.

- Work with Team to translate any internal "Enablers" into value driven stories.

- Facilitate process mapping, feature mapping w/ Personas, gap analysis, data flow to help assess business implications of feature, tool, or platform.

- Act as the voice of the customer and Product management vision for the team.

- Own, maintain and prioritize the Product Roadmap - break Features into stories, ensure capacity for enablers and defects.

- Accountable for the readiness of the work, the acceptance of the work and that the work itself is delivered

within the guidelines and milestones of the Product Roadmap.

- Prioritize and make trade-offs based on understanding of strategies, budget, epics, enabler requirements, goals and the value features and stories bring to the business.

- Align with ART (Agile Release Train) on Agile team participation with release dates and content.

- Be engaged and responsive to the Agile team and help remove roadblocks and make decisions.

- Coordinate content dependencies with other Product teams, define acceptance criteria, and accept or reject work results per iteration.

- Ensure deliverables and milestones are clear - track their progress towards feature completion and adjust

the team backlog accordingly.

- Conducts analysis to determine how features are performing and how they can be improved.

Experience & Skills Fitment :

- Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, or another relevant business/technology field. Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology is preferred, but not a must.

- 8+ years of professional experience in IT or business domain, with hands on proficiency with Data and Analysis.

- Previous experience working as a Product manager, Product Owner, Product Analyst, Business Systems Analyst, or Business Analyst type role.

- 8+ years of additional relevant professional experience accepted in lieu of a degree.

- Understanding of Agile development frameworks, specifically Scrum and Kanban.

- 8 years of experience in delivering BI, Analytics and Data Science applications leveraging BIG DATA platform and tools.

- Strong understanding of customer needs, business process knowledge and business and technical strategy/vision.

- Strong understanding of Agile development frameworks and practices.

- Write and refine stories for clarity, business value, and acceptance criteria with guidance from Product Management.

- Demonstrated understanding of technology systems and the ability to quickly learn the technology

ecosystem.

- Strong working relationships with technical and creative colleagues.

- Strong communication, influencing, and facilitation skills.

- Strong technical acumen to understand technical system needs, architectural requirements and constraints.

- Ability to demonstrate and contribute to technical design decisions for the product and translate the value driven from the same.

- Ability to understand the technology roadmap and drive product solutions to align to the technology vision.

- Ability to coordinate and collaborate with Product teams, Product Managers, and other Agile team members.

- Proficient with Roadmap Aha, Jira and similar Agile tools.

- Proficient with Data Warehouse Tools (preferably Snowflake) and good understanding of Data transformation & processing technologies.