Product Manager - Hybrid Schedule Available

Mansfield Energy; Gainesville (GA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Mansfield Energy in Gainesville, GA is seeking a Product Manager to drive product development, oversee lifecycle, and align offerings with market and customer needs. You will work with engineering, marketing, and sales to grow product value and deliver winning solutions.

Responsibilities include backlog management, defining release plans, and translating business requirements into technical specifications. The role requires strong communication, leadership, and collaboration across teams in a

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science OR equivalent work experience required
• Two or more years project or product management experience and five or more years of experience in related stakeholder function
• Thorough understanding of agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures
• Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle
• In-depth knowledge of testing practices and techniques
• Understanding of organization’s development platform and languages
• Ability to understand technical issues

Responsibilities

• Liaison & Communication: Represent and engage business users, communicate project vision, and coordinate with stakeholders in releases and sprints.
• Development: Create, prioritize, and sequence the product backlog; write user stories and acceptance tests; participate in planning, stand-ups, reviews, and demos.
• Application Support: Review deliverables, maintain testing standards, provide progress reporting, assist with backlog maintenance and communication.
• Management: Plan and design product roadmap, deliver business value, track success metrics, ensure timely delivery within budget.
• Other Duties as Assigned: Adapt to changing scope and priorities as needed.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Product lifecycle management

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

The Product Manageris responsible foroverall business and product development activities.Responsibilities will include, but not be limited to, technical/commercial quoting, leading development, and improvement of new and existing products to fulfill organizational, market, and customer expectations to grow product value.The position may include interface with existing/prospective customers, internal customer service, engineering, marketing, operation groups, and Regional Sales Managers and/or Sales Agents.

Product Manager responsibilities also include managing the product throughout the Product Lifecycle, gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, and working closely with Application Engineers, Engineering, and Marketing to deliver winning products. The Product Manageris responsible fordefining the release process and coordinating the activities required to bring new products to life. The Product Manager also ensures that the product supports the company’s overall strategy and goals.

Responsibilities

Liaison & Communication

• Ablyrepresents, interface with and engage the business user.
• Acts as a fully integrated team member.
• Uses clear goals to communicate the project vision at the beginning of every release and sprint so that the team understands and is equipped to realize it.
• Makes business decisions and clearly communicates requirements through epics and stories so they are understood.
• Communicates status outside the team.
• Communicating effectively with all stakeholders

Development

• Creates,maintains, prioritizes, and sequences the product backlog based on business value or ROI.
• Creates user stories and acceptance tests from themes and features granular enough for a single sprint.
• Prioritizesuser stories by business value.
• Decides which user stories are scheduled into sprints.
• Provides rapid feedback.
• Participates in project planning, daily stand-up meetings (scrums), reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning,demosand other Scrum-related meetings.

Application Support

• Reviews deliverable and demonstrable code after every sprint and has the authority to accept or reject.
• Develops andmaintainsstandards for testing and progress visibility.
• Provides progress reporting.
• Assistsas needed with backlog maintenance.
• Assistswith internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Assistswith prioritization and resolution of defects / bugs.
• Translating business requirements into technical specifications and vice versa
• Allocating resources
• Running design sprints
• Prioritizing product features and communicating the reason behind this to the stakeholders

Management

• Is always accessible andparticipatesproactively and constantly inthe teamactivities.
• Steers the project to ensure delivery of business value.
• Planning and designing product roadmap
• Is visible, vocal, and objective.
• Provides encouragement, recognition, and support to the team.
• Terminates the sprint if a drastic change-in-direction isrequired.
• Changes the course of the project at the end of the sprint if necessary.
• Determinepricing and revenue modeling
• Defining and tracking success metrics
• Ensuringtimelycompletion of the product without cost overruns

Other Duties as Assigned

Position Requirements

Formal Education & Certification

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceOR equivalent work experiencerequired

Knowledge & Experience

• Two or moreyearsproject or product management experience and five or more years of experience in related stakeholder function.
• Thorough understanding of agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures.
• Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle.
• In-depth knowledge of testing practices and techniques.
• Understanding of organization’s development platform and languages.
• Ability to understand technical issues.

Personal Attributes

• Excellent, all-round communicator.
• Advanced negotiation skills.
• Proven leadership ability.
• Decisive.
• Self-motivated and capable of managing multiple priorities and tasks as delegated
• Team-player with the ability to work in a collaborative environment.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types.
• Ability to coach the team to reach their highest potential.
• Creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems.
• Collaborative in driving decisions.
• Ability to deal with multiple projects and deadlines.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a high attention to detail.

Work Environment

• Hybrid schedule available once training is completed (3 days in the office, 2 days remote)
• Sitting for extended periods of time
• Dexterity of hands and fingers tooperatea computer keyboard, mouse, and other computer components

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin,disabilityor veteran status.