Mid-Level Product Manager

Associate Staffing LLC; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Associate Staffing LLC is seeking a Product Manager to partner with leadership, translate business goals into product strategy, and drive discovery and delivery across multiple initiatives. You will collaborate with design, engineering, and business partners to define requirements, validate hypotheses, and ensure timely delivery of valuable product enhancements.

Ideal candidates have 4+ years in product management or related fields, strong stakeholder management, and a track record of using data

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in business, technology, product management, or related field.
• Experience in a product-focused environment with product management principles.
• Strong strategic thinking and decision-making abilities.
• Experience leading multiple initiatives with competing priorities.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Proven ability to influence and align diverse teams and stakeholders.
• Experience using data and insights to inform decisions and priority actions.
• Experience working in fast-paced, highly collaborative environments with technical teams.
• Ability to quickly adapt across products and priorities and drive progress with limited ramp-up time.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product leadership to understand and support product strategy and ensure alignment with business goals.
• Define how product objectives support organizational goals and execute strategic priorities.
• Understand customer needs and requirements; identify opportunities and hypotheses with cross-functional teams.
• Collaborate with design, engineering, and business to explore solutions and run discovery experiments.
• Plan, execute, and evaluate experiments; analyze results to identify insights and priorities.
• Balance discovery and delivery to maintain momentum and deliver value.

Skills

Product management

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Data-driven decision making

Adaptability

Agile product discovery

Job description

Who we are:

Our client is a financial services corporation offering a various suite of products.

Qualifications

• 4-6+ years of experience in business, technology, product management, or a related field; or an equivalent combination of work experience, training, military service, or education.
• Experience working within a product-focused environment and familiarity with product management principles and practices.
• Demonstrated strategic thinking and sound decision-making skills in a professional setting.
• Experience managing multiple initiatives, priorities, and deadlines simultaneously.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, relationship management, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Proven ability to lead, influence, and drive alignment among diverse teams and stakeholders.
• Experience leveraging data, insights, and diverse perspectives to inform decision-making and prioritize actions.
• 4+ years of experience working in highly collaborative, fast-paced environments alongside technical teams and business partners.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt quickly across different products, initiatives, and business priorities. Capable of stepping into unfamiliar or complex work, rapidly establishing context, identifying key stakeholders, dependencies, risks, and objectives, and effectively driving progress with minimal ramp-up time.
• Ability to operate in compliance with applicable company policies, standards, and professional conduct requirements.

Responsibilities

Product Strategy

• Partner with product leadership to understand and support product strategy for assigned products or initiatives.
• Develop an understanding of how product objectives align with broader business and organizational goals.
• Execute strategic priorities as a member of one or more product teams.

Product Discovery

• Understand and help define key business outcomes, customer needs, and product requirements.
• Identify opportunities, challenges, and hypotheses in partnership with product and cross-functional teams.
• Facilitate collaboration across design, engineering, and business functions to explore solutions and conduct experiments.
• Support the planning, execution, and evaluation of experiments and discovery activities.
• Analyze results, identify insights, and recommend priorities based on findings.
• Contribute to maintaining an effective balance between product discovery and delivery activities.

Product Delivery

• Support successful delivery of product outcomes in collaboration with technical and business partners.
• Help identify and remove obstacles while managing dependencies that impact delivery.
• Ensure teams have the customer, business, and stakeholder context needed to make effective decisions.
• Collaborate with team members to define, refine, prioritize, and validate work items.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver valuable, high-quality product enhancements.
• Communicate product updates, releases, and progress to relevant stakeholders.

Product Assessment

• Help establish measurable outcomes and success metrics aligned with product goals.
• Monitor product performance, delivery effectiveness, and progress toward desired outcomes.
• Contribute to ongoing assessment and continuous improvement of product processes and practices.
• Recommend enhancements to product strategy, capabilities, or go-to-market approaches based on performance data and feedback.

Stakeholder Management & Communication

• Communicate priorities, progress, outcomes, and key learnings to stakeholders and partners.
• Collaborate effectively within broader product organizations, portfolios, or business areas.
• Identify opportunities to improve product management practices and contribute to continuous improvement efforts across teams.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Associate Staffing is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected status under applicable law. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply for open positions with our company.