Associate Product Manager

Jobtailor; New Jersey; On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a versatile Business Analyst to support discovery, define problems, and organize requirements across Product Management and Delivery teams in New Jersey.

You will document intake materials, assist with stakeholder interviews, maintain backlog quality, and help translate business needs into actionable artifacts, supporting continuous improvement and cross‑functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years of experience in business analysis, product management, project coordination, process improvement, consulting, or technology-enabled transformation.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Experience with enterprise systems or workflow tools such as CRM, ERP, ServiceNow, Workday, Planview, WMS, or similar platforms.
• Exposure to business process mapping, SIPOC, value stream thinking, or operating model transformation.
• Experience preparing executive-ready materials, intake documentation, or product discovery artifacts.
• Foundational knowledge of data literacy, user research methods, and design thinking principles.
• Familiarity with AI concepts and how emerging technologies influence business transformation.
• Experience supporting or facilitating workshops, discovery sessions, or cross-functional working groups.
• Experience with Jira Product Discovery or similar product discovery and backlog management tools.
• Exposure to sales processes, marketing processes, or go-to-market workflows within enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Support the intake process by documenting business requests, clarifying initial needs, and organizing discovery materials.
• Assist Product Managers with stakeholder interviews, meeting notes, follow-ups, and synthesis of business pain points, outcomes, and scope boundaries.
• Help define and maintain business problem statements, desired outcomes, assumptions, dependencies, and open questions.
• Support demand package preparation to ensure Program Management, Architecture, Solution teams, and delivery partners receive clear and complete information.
• Maintain backlog and intake quality by ensuring requests are understandable, appropriately categorized, and ready for review.
• Coordinate with cross-functional stakeholders to collect inputs, validate documentation, and track follow-up items from discovery sessions.
• Support prioritization conversations by preparing data, summaries, and materials that clarify business value, urgency, risk, and readiness.
• Document success metrics, value hypotheses, and benefit tracking inputs under the guidance of Product Managers.
• Help identify issues, assumptions, and dependencies that may affect discovery readiness or handoff quality.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of templates, intake artifacts, and discovery processes within the Transformation Office.

Skills

Business analysis

Product management

Project coordination

Process improvement

Consulting

Technology-enabled transformation

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

CRM

ERP

ServiceNow

Workday

Planview

WMS

Job description

Responsibilities

• Support the intake process by documenting business requests, clarifying initial needs, and organizing discovery materials.
• Assist Product Managers with stakeholder interviews, meeting notes, follow‑ups, and synthesis of business pain points, outcomes, and scope boundaries.
• Help define and maintain business problem statements, desired outcomes, assumptions, dependencies, and open questions.
• Support demand package preparation to ensure Program Management, Architecture, Solution teams, and delivery partners receive clear and complete information.
• Maintain backlog and intake quality by ensuring requests are understandable, appropriately categorized, and ready for review.
• Coordinate with cross‑functional stakeholders to collect inputs, validate documentation, and track follow‑up items from discovery sessions.
• Support prioritization conversations by preparing data, summaries, and materials that clarify business value, urgency, risk, and readiness.
• Document success metrics, value hypotheses, and benefit tracking inputs under the guidance of Product Managers.
• Help identify issues, assumptions, and dependencies that may affect discovery readiness or handoff quality.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of templates, intake artifacts, and discovery processes within the Transformation Office.

Requirements

• 2–5 years of experience in business analysis, product management, project coordination, process improvement, consulting, or technology‑enabled transformation.
• Preferred Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Experience with enterprise systems or workflow tools such as CRM, ERP, ServiceNow, Workday, Planview, WMS, or similar platforms.
• Exposure to business process mapping, SIPOC, value stream thinking, or operating model transformation.
• Experience preparing executive‑ready materials, intake documentation, or product discovery artifacts.
• Foundational knowledge of data literacy, user research methods, and design thinking principles.
• Familiarity with AI concepts and how emerging technologies influence business transformation.
• Experience supporting or facilitating workshops, discovery sessions, or cross‑functional working groups.
• Experience with Jira Product Discovery or similar product discovery and backlog management tools.
• Exposure to sales processes, marketing processes, or go‑to‑market workflows within enterprise environments.

Hard Skills

• business analysis
• product management
• project coordination
• process improvement
• data literacy
• user research methods
• design thinking
• business process mapping
• SIPOC
• value stream thinking

Soft Skills

• stakeholder management
• communication
• organization
• collaboration
• facilitation
• documentation
• prioritization
• problem-solving
• continuous improvement
• synthesis