Role: Product Manager
Location: Onsite in Rockville, MD 2 days a week, Tuesday is the core day for the team.
Top Skills' Details
1). 4-5 years of experience in product management, project management, business analysis.
2). Experience with registration and licensing system and/or mortgage or insurance domains highly desired - CSMS, NMLS, CFPB, Insurance Licensing.
3). Experience writing user stories, requirements, and working with Data SQL .
Job Description
The Associate Product Manager Contractor assists with the process of defining product and product feature requirements and communicating those requirements to user experience and technology delivery teams. This includes leveraging user feedback, business strategy, data/analytics, and input from design and technology teams to develop features that result in seamless user experiences. While focused on execution, the individual role must understand the end-to-end vision for a product and the impact it has on individual features. With direction from more senior product management staff, this role owns the vision and success criteria for the specific feature(s) within their scope of responsibility.
Essential Job Functions:
Enable development team(s) and client business analyst(s) by understanding and communicating business needs (stated and unstated), leading the product requirements effort, understanding technical solutions, defining criteria for success, and performing other related product analyst activities as needed throughout the software development life cycle to meet specific business needs.
Understands the business and product areas within focus, as well as the relevant data that can be used to inform key decisions in the product areas supported
Provides recommendations and insight to support the process of defining the product and identifying gaps and user needs by creating vision, strategy, and requirements for a feature or set of features
Uses available data to identify user needs
Assists with experiments and participates in primary research to uncover additional user value and determine new features
Coordinates with others on dependencies that impact individual product features
Builds and leverages solid working relationships with business and product stakeholders, UI/UX, architecture, and technology teams to facilitate product and user success
Supports the planning process by developing requirements documents (user stories, acceptance criteria, use cases) for product features
Makes recommendations for the prioritization of the product backlog supported
Provides input into the design of the user experience
Facilitates the development process by reviewing demos with the technology team and validating acceptance criteria for product features
Tracks development work and identifies bugs at a feature level
Identifies issues and blockers that may delay the launch or impede the success of a feature and communicates any concerns to leadership
Assists in developing product documentation and training materials for users in support of product launches
Contributes to post-launch reviews and drives incorporation of feedback in future feature releases
Works with internal teams and users to identify, classify, and resolve feature-level user issues
Assists Product Managers in developing new metrics to measure feature and product success
Works with stakeholder teams to actively monitor metrics
Assists with tracking performance trends and gathering user feedback to determine feature-level gaps or development opportunities
Create and present information to internal stakeholders, the client, and end users across various levels in an effective manner.
Support production releases to ensure successful implementation (may require support outside of typical work hours).
Follow, understand, and apply relevant industry trends, research, and best practices in technology and product management.
Job Requirements:
Bachelor s Degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering, Communications, or related field (or equivalent work experience in a related field)
3 years of experience in product management, project management, business analysis, program management, product marketing, or related field
Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate at all levels of the organization
Demonstrated ability to quickly obtain necessary knowledge of product domain, users, and policies
Experience handling multiple assignments simultaneously with competing priorities
Strong problem solving and analytical skills
Ability to understand and communicate complex technical and business problems/processes
Experience using agile development practices to successfully deliver software preferred
Knowledge of SQL or similar hands-on data analytics platform preferred
Experience with registration and licensing system and/or mortgage or insurance domains highly desired
Working knowledge of Confluence (Wiki), JIRA, and MIRO preferred
Working Conditions:
Work is typically performed in a hybrid environment, with local candidate required to be onsite two days per week and the remaining days remote.
Candidates local to the Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia area are strongly preferred, but remote will be considered if bringing strong domain understanding.
Use of computer on a daily basis
Additional Skills & Qualifications
Experience with registration and licensing system and/or mortgage or insurance domains highly desired - CSMS, NMLS, CFPB, Insurance Licensing.
Employee Value Proposition (EVP)
Long term stable opportunity working on NMLS.
Role: Product Manager
Location: Onsite in Rockville, MD 2 days a week, Tuesday is the core day for the team.
Top Skills' Details
1). 4-5 years of experience in product management, project management, business analysis.
2). Experience with registration and licensing system and/or mortgage or insurance domains highly desired - CSMS, NMLS, CFPB, Insurance Licensing.
3). Experience writing user stories, requirements, and working with Data SQL .
Job Description
The Associate Product Manager Contractor assists with the process of defining product and product feature requirements and communicating those requirements to user experience and technology delivery teams. This includes leveraging user feedback, business strategy, data/analytics, and input from design and technology teams to develop features that result in seamless user experiences. While focused on execution, the individual role must understand the end-to-end vision for a product and the impact it has on individual features. With direction from more senior product management staff, this role owns the vision and success criteria for the specific feature(s) within their scope of responsibility.
Essential Job Functions:
Enable development team(s) and client business analyst(s) by understanding and communicating business needs (stated and unstated), leading the product requirements effort, understanding technical solutions, defining criteria for success, and performing other related product analyst activities as needed throughout the software development life cycle to meet specific business needs.
Understands the business and product areas within focus, as well as the relevant data that can be used to inform key decisions in the product areas supported
Provides recommendations and insight to support the process of defining the product and identifying gaps and user needs by creating vision, strategy, and requirements for a feature or set of features
Uses available data to identify user needs
Assists with experiments and participates in primary research to uncover additional user value and determine new features
Coordinates with others on dependencies that impact individual product features
Builds and leverages solid working relationships with business and product stakeholders, UI/UX, architecture, and technology teams to facilitate product and user success
Supports the planning process by developing requirements documents (user stories, acceptance criteria, use cases) for product features
Makes recommendations for the prioritization of the product backlog supported
Provides input into the design of the user experience
Facilitates the development process by reviewing demos with the technology team and validating acceptance criteria for product features
Tracks development work and identifies bugs at a feature level
Identifies issues and blockers that may delay the launch or impede the success of a feature and communicates any concerns to leadership
Assists in developing product documentation and training materials for users in support of product launches
Contributes to post-launch reviews and drives incorporation of feedback in future feature releases
Works with internal teams and users to identify, classify, and resolve feature-level user issues
Assists Product Managers in developing new metrics to measure feature and product success
Works with stakeholder teams to actively monitor metrics
Assists with tracking performance trends and gathering user feedback to determine feature-level gaps or development opportunities
Create and present information to internal stakeholders, the client, and end users across various levels in an effective manner.
Support production releases to ensure successful implementation (may require support outside of typical work hours).
Follow, understand, and apply relevant industry trends, research, and best practices in technology and product management.
Job Requirements:
Bachelor s Degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering, Communications, or related field (or equivalent work experience in a related field)
3 years of experience in product management, project management, business analysis, program management, product marketing, or related field
Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate at all levels of the organization
Demonstrated ability to quickly obtain necessary knowledge of product domain, users, and policies
Experience handling multiple assignments simultaneously with competing priorities
Strong problem solving and analytical skills
Ability to understand and communicate complex technical and business problems/processes
Experience using agile development practices to successfully deliver software preferred
Knowledge of SQL or similar hands-on data analytics platform preferred
Experience with registration and licensing system and/or mortgage or insurance domains highly desired
Working knowledge of Confluence (Wiki), JIRA, and MIRO preferred
Working Conditions:
Work is typically performed in a hybrid environment, with local candidate required to be onsite two days per week and the remaining days remote.
Candidates local to the Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia area are strongly preferred, but remote will be considered if bringing strong domain understanding.
Use of computer on a daily basis
Additional Skills & Qualifications
Experience with registration and licensing system and/or mortgage or insurance domains highly desired - CSMS, NMLS, CFPB, Insurance Licensing.
Employee Value Proposition (EVP)
Long term stable opportunity working on NMLS.