Job Title: Sr. Product Manager
Work Authorization: USC, GC only || Experience: 8+ Years
Duration: 12+ Months
Job Description:
here are the main 3-5 responsibilities of this resource?
1. Partner with stakeholders and SMEs to identify ways of improving member experiences that generate businesalue
2. Elicit and identify requirements
3. Develop and maintain product road maps and user story backlogs
4. Work with engineering to deliver features and capabilities on time
What are the MUST HAVE technologies or skills for this position?
1. Understanding of the end-to-end product development life cycle including working with agile methodologies
2. Ability to influence across multiple stakeholder groups
3. Strong organizational and communication skills
4. Analytical skills – Data and process
5. User experience mindset
What technologies or skills are NOT REQUIRED but would be NICE TO HAVEon their resume?
1. SQL / python
2. JIRA and other Atlassian tools
Job Summary:
DentaQuest/SL Dental is a leading provider of dental health insurance administration for government and commercial employers. Over the past several years we have grown significantly and millions of members and hundreds of thousands of dentists as part of our community. This is where we need you. With the rapid growth we have seen, we are in search of exceptional product managers to drive the vision and direction for our member focused products. This is your opportunity to define what products and features we should build to deliver high customer engagement and satisfaction and deliver outsized business and Client outcomes and objectives. You will lead cross functional teams of UX designers, engineers, researchers, marketers, and other operators to bring your vision to life. We desire a candidate with leading understanding of core product or service management concepts such as: strategic thinking, delivery, user science & empathy, A/B testing, usability, agile planning, design thinking, and focused on learning more about these domains and continuously honing their craft. Ability to focus on task at hand while also thinking strategically, follow-through on prescribed plan with ability to be flexible and think under pressure while influencing others across U.S. IT. Highly motivated team player with a strong desire to learn, grow, and continuously improve.
High Level Job Responsibilities:
• Deliver business and Client outcomes and objectives in your domain through creating outstanding digital experiences
• Works with and influences business leaders to prioritize the overall portfolio and manage the portfolio development process from idea creation to validation and implementation
• May be acting product or service owner for a team as defined in scaled agile framework
• Drive the development of products, platforms, or services to achieve desired business outcomes
• Work cross functionally with business or IT leaders to understand business objectives and key measures aligned with product/platform/service development
• Define the product/platform/service roadmap and vision in terms of features and capabilities
• Author and refine feature briefs, lean business cases, and epic value statements as appropriate for the product/platform/service
• Drive the stakeholder process to ensure consistent understanding of features/capabilities, prioritization, trade-offs, etc.
• Work collaboratively with user experience, product marketing, business/IT partners and others to ensure successful release and adoption of features/capabilities
• Perform required activities (documentation, training, presentations, wikis, knowledgebases, etc.) to ensure successful launch, marketing, and adoption of features/capabilities
• Balances scope, complexity, risk, and costs
• Responsible for defining initial scope or minimal viable product (MVP) for area of responsibility
• May also be a more specialized member of the team focusing explicitly on product marketing, business process change, digital product marketing and/or management of services
• Leads/conduct brainstorming sessions (design thinking/etc.)
• Capable of challenging business needs and to drive the right outcomes and priorities for the organization
• Structure and perform appropriate market research directly or working with partners. For example, industry research, user interviews, surveys, data analysis, SWOT analysis, competitor analysis, etc.
• Prioritize features/capabilities and work cross functionally with product/service managers to ensure appropriate prioritization and development
• Define success metrics and how to measure them to ensure desired outcomes
Key Skills:
• Domain expertise in the product/platform/service or ability to rapidly learn the domain expertise
• Ability to lead cross functionally by promoting vision and purpose. Ability to get cross functional teams aligned around a cause
• Solid persuasion and negotiation skills. Ability to align people around a common purpose and goal
• Advanced communication skills, ability to produce material that is complete, concise, and easy to understand
• Advanced problem solving and systems thinking skills, ability to break medium-to-high complexity problems into logic parts
• Ability to manage through unknowns and deal with high levels of ambiguity
• Advanced data analytics and data-based decision-making skills
• Research / market / competitive analysis skills. Ability to evaluate options and identify trends
Ability to conduct user interviews, create interview scripts, and consolidate findings
Regards,
Anshika Shukla
IT Recruiter
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