Product Manager

Jobtailor; Massachusetts; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor seeks a senior product leader to own the vision and lifecycle of a diverse product portfolio. You will partner with senior stakeholders to shape strategy, build business cases, and align cross-functional teams to deliver on time and within budget.

You will drive lifecycle decisions, define KPIs, manage portfolio data for reporting, and support adoption through change management. Strong Agile/Scrum and financial planning experience are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field; advanced degree preferred.
• 6+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Supply chain or software development leadership experience.
• Demonstrated Agile/Scrum experience and execution.
• Ability to distill complex business use cases into elegant solutions.

Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders to define vision and strategy for product portfolio.
• Develop business cases and financial plans for accountable portfolios.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver on time and within cost.
• Drive lifecycle decisions balancing customer value, cost, and timelines.
• Execute lifecycle plans with standard methods and change management.
• Establish KPIs across platforms and measure value capture.
• Maintain portfolio data accuracy for monthly/quarterly reporting.
• Communicate timelines and performance to stakeholders.
• Support customers with change management and adoption.
• Assist in recruiting, training, and backlog/user story management.
• Support Scrum Master in risk/issue management to ensure on-time delivery.

Skills

Product strategy

Stakeholder management

Agile/Scrum

Financial planning

Cross-functional leadership

Change management

Decision making

Influence without authority

Communication

Analytics

UX/UI collaboration

AI concepts

Vendor management

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative field

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Figma

Adobe XD

Job description

• Partner with senior stakeholders to create the vision and articulate the short and long-term product strategy and life cycle plan for your product portfolio- ensuring alignment and managing interdependencies with a broader digital applications strategic roadmap.
• Develop business cases and financial plans for portfolios for which you are accountable.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to develop and execute solutions that meet the defined scope on time and at cost, ensuring projects meet business and quality standards.
• Drive life cycle decisions by evaluating trade-offs that balance customer experience, strategic value, cost, and timelines.
• Execute life cycle plans following established standards and supporting change management with key business partners.
• Establish key performance metrics across all platforms and collaborate with cross-functional partners to define and measure value capture.
• Accountability for maintaining the integrity of the product portfolio database/tool, ensuring all project information (status, financials, resourcing) is current and accurate for monthly and quarterly reporting.
• Effectively manage communication of product execution timelines and performance with customer and other key stakeholders.
• Partner with customers to develop and support execution for change management plans, ensuring successful product adoption.
• Support recruiting, development, and training for the product team - including support for writing effective user stores, managing the product backlog and making trade-off decisions.
• Support the Scrum Master in proactively identifying and helping to resolve project issues, manage risks to project delivery, and ensure projects are completed on time and within budget.

Requirements

• Minimum Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent University degree required; focused degree in Math, Economics, Bioinformatics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science, or other quantitative fields preferred. Advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum six (6) years of relevant professional work experience
• Work experience in supply chain or software development, with significant leadership experience delivering successful and innovative digital and/or software products
• Demonstrable experience working in Agile environments and applying Scrum principles to deliver successful outcomes.
• Extensive experience in setting and delivering a strategy with full accountability for execution outcomes.
• Customer Obsession and strong facilitation skills, with a passion for distilling complex business use cases into elegant solutions that delight users
• A bias towards action with strong decision-making capabilities
• Proven ability to influence without direct authority and communicate clearly across functions - including proficiency in identifying and resolving conflicts constructively
• Ability to build out financial plans and formal business cases.
• Strong financial acumen with direct experience managing budgets, timelines, and resources
• Ability to thrive in an ambiguous environment with changing priorities.
• Familiarity with E2E supply chain domains such as Planning , Manufacturing, Procurement, and Distribution within a MedTech or similar industry
• Familiarity with tools like Jira and Confluence
• Experience with systems thinking, analytics and experiment design and a solid understanding of software development processes and concepts.
• UX/UI design experience or familiarity partnering with UX/UI designers
• Familiarity with design tools such as Figma and Adobe XD
• Experience managing technology vendors
• Previous software development experience
• Familiarity with AI concepts
• Agile/Agile Scrum professional certifications