Product Manager

JPS Tech Solutions Pvt Ltd; Pennsylvania; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

JPS Tech Solutions Pvt Ltd seeks an experienced Product Manager to lead a large-scale application modernization initiative. You will define the product vision, strategy, and roadmap while coordinating design, development, testing, and implementation with stakeholders and vendors.

You will gather and prioritize user stories, translate business needs into backlog items, and drive Agile ceremonies to ensure timely delivery and alignment with security, accessibility, and compliance standards.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience as a Product Manager leading large-scale modernization efforts.
• Experience modernizing legacy applications or leading digital transformation initiatives.
• Strong experience gathering user stories and converting into actionable backlogs.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and modernization priorities.
• Gather, document, prioritize, and manage business and functional user stories.
• Translate business needs into clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and backlog items.
• Collaborate with architects, developers, UX/UI designers, and vendors to define solutions.
• Prioritize features based on business value, risk, dependencies, and objectives.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies and backlog refinement as needed.
• Serve as liaison between business stakeholders and delivery teams.
• Define product KPIs and track progress against goals.
• Support change management, user adoption, and implementation activities.
• Ensure solutions meet security, accessibility, data privacy, and compliance requirements.

Skills

Product management

Stakeholder management

Agile / Scrum

Requirements gathering

Communication skills

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business or CS

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jira

Scrum boards

Job description

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Product Manager to lead a large-scale application modernization initiative. The Product Manager will be responsible for defining product vision and strategy, managing the product roadmap and backlog, gathering and prioritizing user stories, and coordinating design, development, testing, and implementation activities.

The Product Manager will work closely with business stakeholders, technical teams, solution architects, UX/UI teams, and vendors to ensure the modernized solution meets current and future business needs while aligning with enterprise architecture, security, accessibility, and compliance standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and modernization priorities.
• Gather, document, prioritize, and manage business and functional user stories.
• Translate business needs into clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and actionable product backlog items.
• Collaborate with architects, developers, UX/UI designers, and vendors to define technical and functional solutions.
• Prioritize features and technical work based on business value, risk, dependencies, and strategic objectives.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives as needed.
• Serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams.
• Define product success metrics and KPIs and track progress against established goals.
• Support change management, user adoption, training, and implementation activities.
• Ensure solutions align with security, accessibility, data privacy, and compliance requirements.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and impediments and drive timely resolution.
• Provide regular project and product status updates to leadership and business sponsors.
• Oversee and support large-scale data conversion and validation activities.
• Support enterprise application modernization, process improvement, and business process reengineering initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience as a Product Manager leading $10M+ large-scale public-sector modernization efforts.
• Demonstrated experience modernizing legacy applications or leading digital transformation initiatives.
• Strong experience gathering user stories from diverse business stakeholders and converting them into actionable product backlogs.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar platforms.
• Experience overseeing and testing large-scale data conversions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills with the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Strong stakeholder management, leadership, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise application modernization, including legacy platform migration and modern architecture adoption.
• Familiarity with Microsoft technologies, Azure cloud platforms, or content management systems.
• Experience with process improvement and business process reengineering.
• Knowledge of WCAG 2.1 accessibility standards and public-sector compliance requirements.
• Experience working with Commonwealth or other public-sector organizations.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• YAFOS certification is Required