Senior Product Manager

Synergy Interactive; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 82,656 - 89,544; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic consulting firm is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead product strategy and mentor teams. The ideal candidate has 4-5 years of experience in product management, strong analytical skills, and adeptness with Agile methodologies. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams and guiding clients through best practices.

Qualifications

• 4-5 years of experience in strategy, user experience, or digital product roles.
• Proven experience of working with cross-functional teams.
• Experience managing agile teams.

Responsibilities

• Understand and analyze user needs.
• Lead workshops to identify scope and features.
• Define user stories and acceptance criteria.

Skills

Strong presentation and communication skills

Experience with Agile software development

Strong analytical skills

Ability to guide clients in re-imagining business processes

Desire to build great products and teach others

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

This range is provided by Synergy Interactive. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$60.00/hr - $65.00/hr

Searching for a Senior Product Manager that will help our clients develop and execute their product strategy. As part of your responsibilities, you will work closely with the other Product Owners, client leadership, and leadership team to create roadmaps, write user stories and lead your product teams. You will also be responsible for educating and guiding our clients on industry best practice.

Core Responsibilities

• Understand and analyze user needs
• Lead workshops and meetings to identify scope and features
• Understand business outcomes and evaluate feature value
• Discuss/negotiate feature prioritization with user and product owner
• Define user stories and acceptance criteria
• Work with other product owners, business users, engineers, and creative team members to ideate, build, test and launch new features
• Teach clients our approach
• Mentor a team of internal or client product managers

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
• Strong presentation and communication skills
• Experience with Agile software development and tools (JIRA, confluence, etc.)
• Experience managing agile teams
• Strong analytical skills
• Ability to quickly understand business, evaluate priorities and assess value for business functionality
• Ability to guide clients in re-imagining their business processes
• Proven experience of working with multi-disciplinary (product owners, business users, technology, creative, etc.) and cross-functional teams
• Proven experience in the practice of product management. You have shipped product and can prove it
• Desire to build great products and teach others to do the same
• Proven record in strategy, user experience or digital product roles 4-5 yrs

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in consumer goods or retail domain
• Business strategy experience, digital preferred

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Contract

Job function

Product Management and Strategy/Planning

Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting, Technology, Information and Internet, and Software Development