Product Strategy & Ops Lead, Jira & AI Transformation

maxar; Westminster (CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Vantor is seeking a Product Strategy & Operations Manager to own Jira governance, operating model design, and cross-tool integration for product development tools and AI initiatives. You will partner with Product, Engineering, and IT to drive standardized workflows and trusted reporting.

The role focuses on improving data quality, delivery visibility, and executive-ready roadmaps while leading change management and exploring AI-enabled enhancements to planning and documentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a related field.
• Experience architecting Jira at enterprise scale, including workflows, hierarchies, permissions, automation, dashboards, roadmaps, and reporting.
• Experience designing operating models, governance practices, or standardized workflows for large organizations.
• Strong understanding of the Product Management and Engineering lifecycle, including intake, planning, prioritization, and execution tracking.

Responsibilities

• Assess current Jira usage, team practices, workflows, data structures, reporting needs, and pain points across Product and Engineering.
• Architect and administer Jira at enterprise scale, including workflows, issue hierarchies, permissions, automation, dashboards, roadmaps, and reporting.
• Define and implement a flexible future-state Jira operating model that accommodates different ways of working while establishing governance and data-quality standards.
• Design connected solutions across Jira, Asana, Confluence, Google Workspace, and other product development and collaboration tools.
• Build and maintain automations that reduce manual work, improve handoffs, increase data consistency, and support intake, planning, status reporting, dependency management, and executive reviews.
• Establish consistent structures and processes for initiatives, milestones, epics, backlogs, roadmaps, releases, dependencies, documentation, and portfolio reporting.
• Develop trusted reporting and dashboards that improve visibility into delivery health, risks, dependencies, decisions, milestones, and execution status.
• Lead change-management activities, including training users and leaders and driving adoption of the future-state Jira design.
• Identify and implement AI-enabled solutions that improve requirements development, documentation, analysis, reporting, planning, and decision-making.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Product Operations, Engineering Operations, IT, and other stakeholders to continuously improve the operating model.

Skills

Stakeholder collaboration

Process design

Change management

Data-driven decision making

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Jira

Asana

Confluence

Google Workspace

Job description

Vantor is seeking a Product Strategy & Operations Manager to own Jira governance, operating model design, and cross-tool integration for product development tools and AI initiatives. You will partner with Product, Engineering, and IT to drive standardized workflows and trusted reporting.

The role focuses on improving data quality, delivery visibility, and executive-ready roadmaps while leading change management and exploring AI-enabled enhancements to planning and documentation.