Product Manager, Complex Systems & Discovery

ASMARK INSTITUTE, INC.; Owensboro (KY); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Monthly wellness stipend

Annual company-wide trip

Anniversary bonuses

Job summary

ASMARK INSTITUTE, INC. seeks a Product Manager who is a systems thinker and collaborative. You enjoy talking with users, asking thoughtful questions, and turning discovery into clear directions that improve how people work.

You will model workflows, map business rules, and partner with UI/UX and engineering to translate insight into software at scale. You will own initiatives from discovery through delivery and validation, guide prioritization, manage scope and dependencies, and build strong

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of product management or closely related software roles.
• Strong product management fundamentals across discovery, definition, prioritization, delivery, and validation.
• Demonstrated ability to independently analyze and map business processes and model complex concepts, workflows, relationships, and business rules.
• Experience working directly with users and subject matter experts and translating ambiguous business problems into clear product direction.
• Strong facilitation, listening, written communication, and verbal communication skills.
• Strong project management skills, including scope, sequencing, dependencies, risks, and stakeholder management.
• Experience working closely with software Engineering teams and confidence learning unfamiliar, complex business domains.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery conversations and workshops with users and subject matter experts to understand their work, needs, challenges, and business context.
• Independently map current and future processes and model business concepts, relationships, and rules, including decisions, exceptions, dependencies, and system interactions.
• Identify the underlying problem and distinguish between issues caused by software, processes, policies, or ways of working.
• Translate discovery into clear product opportunities, workflows, requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Partner with UI/UX and engineering to explore solutions and break complex work into deliverable increments, ensuring the team understands what it is building and why.
• Prioritize based on customer and business value, risk, effort, dependencies, and strategic alignment, and explain the reasoning behind decisions and trade-offs.
• Own initiatives from discovery through delivery and validation, managing scope, sequencing, dependencies, risks, decisions, and blockers.
• Stay closely involved with engineering throughout development, bring clarity to ambiguous work, and maintain useful process maps, models, requirements, and decision records.
• Validate delivered functionality with users against the original problem and intended outcome.
• Build trusted relationships with users, stakeholders, designers, and engineers, and communicate complex ideas clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Listen carefully, explore different perspectives, and facilitate productive discussions when people disagree.

Skills

Product management

Discovery

Delivery

Stakeholder mgmt

Facilitation

Communication

Project management

Requirements gathering

Tools

Miro

Jira

Confluence

Job description

ASMARK INSTITUTE, INC. seeks a Product Manager who is a systems thinker and collaborative. You enjoy talking with users, asking thoughtful questions, and turning discovery into clear directions that improve how people work.

You will model workflows, map business rules, and partner with UI/UX and engineering to translate insight into software at scale. You will own initiatives from discovery through delivery and validation, guide prioritization, manage scope and dependencies, and build strong