Position: 2282 – IT Product Manager (ITS6)

Location: Hybrid - Rosemead, CA 91770

The IT Product Manager is accountable for the end-to-end product lifecycle management for their assigned product line. This individual will leverage their consultative skills to collaborate with OU leadership, understand business challenges, and recommend people / process / technology changes to solve issues. As technology needs are identified, this role will develop five-year roadmaps and partner with OU product owners on curating the product backlogs to aim at delivering maximum value. Additionally, this individual acts as a liaison between IT and other business units in the organization and conducts solution planning activities to develop business cases with quantitative business outcomes that will help IT/OU leadership make educated funding decisions based on the priority within the portfolio.

Responsibilities:

· This individual manages all stages of the system development life cycle, including analysis, estimation, design, evaluation, demonstration, construction, testing, implementation, and post-implementation support. This individual should be able to flex between waterfall, agile, and hybrid execution methods based on the needs of the initiative. This employee will manage vendor development teams, identify ART (Agile Release Train), Features, establish sprint goals, facilitate daily stand ups, lead project governance committee meetings, update statuses in the IT project management tool, and ensure adherence to client IT standards / processes. The IT Product Manager should constantly review project health, proactively identify risks, develop mitigation strategies, and escalate issues to leadership for awareness and assistance.

· This resource will focus on writing vendor statements of work with clear scope, responsibilities, expectations, and success measures. The IT Product Manager negotiates costs, evaluates the performance of contingent workers, partners with vendor account management to adjust resources, and escalates significant deficiencies to IT management and Supply Management leadership. Additionally, this individual provides guidance and coaching to the project team, onboards and offboards resources properly, and ensures all resources adhere to client policy and procedures.

· The IT Product Manager is accountable to developing the initial estimate during solution planning and refining the higher confidence estimate during solution analysis. During project execution, this individual manages cost plans, invoices, unit estimates, and work orders. This individual should be able to reconcile forecast with actuals while providing detailed variance explanations. For agile projects, this individual will evaluate the team’s velocity and burn rates to ensure client is receiving the appropriate level of value for the fixed monthly capacity cost.

· Focused on ensuring a successful delivery of target business outcomes. This requires the individual to collaborate with and build cross-functional product teams across IT Cybersecurity, IT Enterprise Architecture, IT Grid Services, IT PMO, IT SMOO, Information Governance, Supply Management, and Operational Finance. Additionally, the IT Product Management works with OU stakeholders throughout the lifecycle of each initiative to evaluate the business value realization compared with the initiate targeted outcomes that were defined prior to kickoff.

Responsibilities:

Required Skills/Attributes

· Master's Degree

· Experienced Product Management leader for enterprise software product portfolios with forward-thinking perspectives including multiple points of view and pursuing new, innovative ideas. Adept at partnering with cross-functional teams to help build effective end-to-end product processes. Established history of engaging at all levels of the process working with teams to address complex issues while having a focus on improving efficiency, enhancing supportability, and speeding up the resolution of product defects. Adept at navigating varying priorities and constituencies to support successful outcomes. Loves aligning business problems with customer needs to find simple and delightful solutions powered by technology.

· Product Strategy, Product Roadmapping, Project Management, Stakeholder Alignment, User Experience (UX) Design, Market Research, Competitive Analysis, Prioritization, User/Customer Interviews, A/B Testing, Executive Communication, Technical Communication, Agile Development, Testing & Prototyping, Content Strategy, Partnerships.

· Candidate must demonstrate strong financial acumen.

Desired Skills/Attributes

· Agile, Backlog Management, Scrum Leader. Focused on team development for quality outcomes. Experienced with Feature Development. Start up or Innovation Experience. Knowledge and experience with Microsoft Dynamics, and SAP

Job Type: Contract

Pay: From $101.45 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Rosemead, CA 91770: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Education:

• Master's (Preferred)

Experience:

• end-to-end product lifecycle management: 5 years (Required)
• develop roadmaps and partner with OU product owners: 5 years (Required)
• analysis, estimation, design, testing, implementation: 5 years (Required)
• negotiates costs, evaluates the performance of workers: 5 years (Required)
• Product Mgmt. leader - enterprise software product portfolio: 5 years (Required)
• build effective end-to-end product processes: 5 years (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Rosemead, CA 91770

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