Product Manager

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Company: V2 Innovations

Location: Piscataway, NJ 08854

Description:

Development Responsibilities

Drive Product Development roadmap and priorities
Client focused development of product/business requirements to meet client needs
Plan, manage and support delivery phases leveraging Business/product and Technology stakeholders
Facilitate workshops and conduct knowledge sharing sessions as needed
Develop/drive product requirements and support tech development to delivery
Liaise with Technology teams to define estimates for proposed development work, and drive prioritization and delivery efforts
Active prioritization of defects to close product gaps
Inclination towards data-driven decision-making without being paralyzed by incomplete information

Stakeholder Management

Build effective relationships with key Product, Technology, Operations, Sales and functional leads; while being able to effectively challenge them to move projects forward where needed
Gather, analyze, and synthesize feedback
Able to build relationships with and influence colleagues and cross function players to meet deadlines
Ability to manage stakeholder expectations across multiple parallel work streams
Ability to work collaboratively with team members and stakeholders

Product Management

Clear communication and demos to clients on product functionality
Address any gap/issues as they arise to clients and stakeholders
Take ownership to drive forward to resolve for identified issues; both by maintaining a catalog of product gaps as well closing client escalated issues
Understand, improve, or redesign existing processes (where needed) to create efficiency towards a better client experience
Report new opportunities and changes with go-forward recommendations
Problem Solving & Analysis
Ability to break down analyses and issues into their individual components
Execute creative analyses and provide insight to identify issues and arrive at recommendations
Ability to quickly learn new concepts
Ability to keep sight of the overall context and remain centered on core product proposition
Keeps track of deliverables and proactively follow-ups and provides updates
Ensure appropriate approvals are in place with compliance and legal
Maintain Product catalog/documentation (yearly reviews)

Communication

Confident speaker with ability to provide clear and succinct verbal updates on their work to colleagues and senior executives
Actively contributes to team meetings with colleagues & with stakeholders from other functions
PowerPoint skills - able to structure senior management presentations following direction

Basic Qualifications:

Minimum of 10 years of product management experience; Preferred with knowledge of the Retirement Insurance Domain
Minimum 5 years' experience in Agile delivery methodology
Demonstrated total ownership behavior and attitude
Adapt to utilizing MS Project, Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, and business intelligence tools

Education:

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, business management, project management, or a related field.