Product Manager (New Product Development)

Jobgether; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work across the United States

Cloud-native on Google Cloud Platform

Structured onboarding and ongoing dev.

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a decisive, technically fluent product professional in the United States to lead discovery and delivery. You will own backlog and roadmap, partner with UX and engineering, and engage closely with client sponsors to drive measurable outcomes.

The role emphasizes product discovery, cross-functional collaboration, and delivering value through CI/CD releases. A strong background in SaaS, APIs, and analytics is preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field; advanced degree is a plus.
• 5+ years hands-on Product Manager or Product Owner experience within software teams.
• Ownership of product backlogs, including writing user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Recent experience at a product-led tech company or consulting firm in digital/product practice.
• Proven product discovery experience with UX and design teams (interviews, usability testing, prototyping).
• Experience releasing frequently via CI/CD and measuring outcomes rather than velocity.
• Strong technical understanding to discuss APIs, data models, and software architecture.
• Ability to independently analyze product data using SQL and analytics tools.
• Proficient with Jira and Confluence; experience with Figma or similar tools.
• Experience with Scrum and SAFe or scaled Agile; PI Planning involvement.
• At least three years of client-facing experience in consulting or with business stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills with executive-ready recommendations.
• Proactive ownership mindset, good judgment, curiosity, and ability to solve ambiguous problems.
• Must be located in and authorized to work in the United States for the duration of engagement.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day product direction and delivery, ensuring teams build the right solutions.
• Personally write user stories and acceptance criteria; maintain refined backlog for sprints.
• Partner with UX and engineering for user interviews, usability tests, prototyping, experiments.
• Collaborate with engineers and designers in daily stand-ups; review and accept stories.
• Rank initiatives by user value and business impact; explain trade-offs and priorities.
• Define success metrics with sponsors; track adoption, completion, conversion, satisfaction.
• Discuss APIs, data models, and integrations; analyze product data to support decisions.
• Coordinate frequent releases through CI/CD; prepare release notes and communications.
• Translate client objectives into a clear product vision and near-term roadmap.
• Participate in Sprint Planning, Reviews, Retrospectives, and PI Planning; manage backlog dependencies.
• Engage with client sponsors and stakeholders through demonstrations and workshops.
• Track engagement metrics, backlog quality, and release frequency to inform decisions.
• Establish initial delivery milestones within 30 days and a measurable roadmap within 90 days.
• Identify risks and elevate issues early with recommended solutions.

Skills

Backlog ownership/write user stories

User interviews

Agile / Scrum

Product discovery with UX

SQL analytics

Jira / Confluence

APIs & data models

Client-facing communications

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Figma

Job description

Accountabilities

You will own the day-to-day product direction and delivery, ensuring that the team consistently builds the right solutions and achieves agreed user and business outcomes.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Backlog ownership: Manage the product backlog end to end, personally writing user stories and acceptance criteria, breaking work into manageable increments, and maintaining at least two sprints of refined, ready-to-build work.
• Product discovery: Partner with UX and engineering teams to conduct user interviews, usability tests, prototyping, and lightweight experiments, ensuring product decisions are grounded in user research and evidence.
• Daily team collaboration: Work closely with engineers and designers, participate in daily stand-ups, resolve questions promptly, review work in progress, and accept or reject completed stories against defined acceptance criteria.
• Prioritization and decision-making: Rank initiatives according to user value and business impact, make timely scope and sequencing decisions, explain trade-offs, and adapt priorities as new evidence emerges.
• Outcome measurement: Establish success metrics with client sponsors, track indicators such as adoption, task completion, conversion, and user satisfaction, and use release performance to inform future backlog decisions.
• Technical collaboration: Develop a strong understanding of product architecture and engage in discussions about APIs, data models, and integrations. Independently retrieve and analyze product data to support decisions.
• Release management: Coordinate frequent releases with engineering teams through CI/CD processes, prepare release notes, and manage rollout communications with client stakeholders.
• Product vision and roadmap: Translate client objectives into a clear product vision and actionable near‑term roadmap that guides team execution.
• Agile delivery: Participate actively in Sprint Planning, Reviews, Retrospectives, and scaled Agile activities such as PI Planning. Maintain a refined, sized, and dependency‑mapped backlog while collaborating with the Scrum Master to improve delivery flow and predictability.
• Client engagement: Act as the primary product representative to client sponsors, leading demonstrations, regular check‑ins, discovery workshops, and stakeholder discussions with clear, evidence‑based recommendations.
• Delivery performance: Track engagement‑specific success measures, including outcomes delivered, backlog quality, release frequency, and client satisfaction.
• Initial delivery milestones: Establish a product baseline within the first 30 days, covering users, objectives, current metrics, and backlog health, and deliver an agreed roadmap with measurable outcome targets within 90 days.
• Risk and stakeholder management: Anticipate upcoming decisions and delivery risks, elevate issues early with recommended solutions, and keep clients and teammates informed.
• Consulting delivery: Balance client outcomes with project schedules, utilization targets, and the expectations of a billable, project‑based environment.

Requirements

The ideal candidate is a decisive, technically fluent product professional who combines strong discovery and delivery skills with client‑facing experience. The required qualifications include:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field; an advanced degree is considered an advantage.
• At least five years of hands‑on Product Manager or Product Owner experience within software or application development teams.
• Demonstrated ownership of product backlogs, including personally writing user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Current or recent experience, ideally within the past five years, at a product‑led technology company or in the digital or product practice of a leading consulting firm.
• Proven experience conducting product discovery with UX and design teams, including user interviews, usability testing, and prototyping.
• Experience working with teams that release frequently through CI/CD and measure product outcomes and delivery flow rather than relying solely on velocity.
• Strong technical understanding, including the ability to discuss APIs, data models, and software architecture with engineers.
• Ability to independently analyze product data using SQL, analytics platforms, or comparable tools.
• Strong working knowledge of Jira and Confluence, along with experience using Figma or similar design tools.
• Experience working within Scrum and SAFe or another scaled Agile framework, including participation in PI Planning.
• At least three years of client‑facing experience in consulting, professional services, or direct collaboration with business stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present concise, polished, executive‑ready recommendations and lead with the key message.
• A proactive ownership mindset, strong judgment, curiosity, and the ability to structure ambiguous problems and make decisions independently.
• Must be located in and legally authorized to work in the United States for the entire duration of the engagement.

Additional qualifications considered an advantage:

• CSPO, SAFe POPM, or another relevant product management certification.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or other public cloud application development environments.
• Hands‑on experience with prototyping, product analytics, or experimentation tools, including A/B testing.
• Previous professional experience in engineering, design, or data before transitioning into product management.
• Experience working with government or public sector clients.
• Experience collaborating with geographically distributed teams.

Benefits

• Full‑time engagement with remote work options across the United States, including Chicago, Illinois.
• Opportunity to work on modern, cloud‑native applications built on Google Cloud Platform.
• Hands‑on ownership of product direction, backlog management, discovery, and delivery.
• Close collaboration with dedicated engineering and design teams.
• Direct engagement with client sponsors and business stakeholders.
• Opportunity to influence measurable product and business outcomes.
• Exposure to agile delivery practices, frequent releases, and modern product development tools.
• Structured onboarding during the first several weeks, including training materials, compliance requirements, and introductions to key collaborators.
• Expected start date: As soon as possible.

How Jobgether works

We use an AI‑powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top‑fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.

We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!

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