Description
About the role
As a Software Product Manager, you will be an active contributor in the software development team, collaborating with business stakeholders, development team members, and end-users to deliver successful software products. You will play a critical role in leading the implementation of software solutions that meet our clients’ needs and support our business goals.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Strategic Collaboration: Work closely with stakeholders to understand the business needs, goals, and requirements for software solutions.
- Product Strategy: Define product strategies and roadmaps to best serve the needs of our customers, our software users, Winona IT’s business, and our development team.
- Evidence-Based Decision Making: Make decisions based on evidence, drawing on user research, usage and performance data, market research and analysis, and technology trends.
- User Advocacy: Champion the needs of our software users throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with designers, business analysts, developers, QA and project managers and other roles as applicable, fostering clear communication and alignment on development goals.
- Software Projects:
- Communicate with customers and manage expectations throughout projects.
- Define scopes of work aligned with business goals, user needs and technical feasibility.
- Conduct user research and gather functional and non-functional requirements.
- Define design requirements, validating designs, and building stakeholder buy-in.
- Document business requirements in detailed user stories, use cases and technical specifications.
- Create and maintain roadmaps and project timelines.
- Prioritize development work.
- Collaborate with developers to ensure on time delivery.
- Conduct internal and user-acceptance testing to ensure quality.
- Provide product status updates and release communication.
- Ensure post implementation support, including release notes, training, and support materials are available to users.
- Identify areas for improving the product through customer feedback, usability testing, analytics, and research.
- Stay informed of relevant industry trends and competitive landscape.
- Innovation and Learning: Promote a culture of innovation and learning within the team, encouraging the exploration of new ideas and technologies.
- Domain Expertise: Demonstrate deep understanding of the product’s business domain and users.
- Process Improvements: Identify best practices in software product management and help define and implement process improvements.
Expected Qualifications
- Experience: 1 – 2 years of software Product Management experience, working with Agile teams to build web and/or mobile applications.
- Communication: Strong verbal, written communication, and presentation skills.
- Collaboration: Ability to work effectively with diverse teams.
- Critical Thinking: Demonstrates exceptional critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Attention to Detail: Exhibits a meticulous attention to detail.
- Empathy: Demonstrates empathy for others, especially customers and software users, ensuring their needs and perspectives inform decision-making.
- Decisiveness: Ability to work through ambiguity and make good decisions, articulating clear rationale and building alignment.
- Time Management: Ability to prioritize and management multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
- Growth Mindset: Consistently seeks opportunities for improvement and innovation.
- Software Experience: MS Office, MS Teams, and Azure Devops (or similar software project management tool such as Jira), with a working knowledge of enterprise-level applications.
Nice to Have
- Product Management experience in enterprise SaaS.
- Experience with databases (SQL) and APIs.
- Experience with MS Dynamics.
- Experience in the Insurance, Finance, or E-commerce industries.
Benefits
Winona IT has a comprehensive benefits program that includes:
- Health
- Vision
- Dental insurance
- Life insurance
- 401(k) match
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage
- Generous vacation
- Flexible schedules
- Remote work
- Company paid holidays
- Training and development opportunities
Diverse Perspectives
We know that innovation thrives on product teams where diverse points of view come together to solve hard problems in ways that are just now possible. As such, we explicitly seek people that bring diverse life experiences, diverse educational backgrounds, diverse cultures, and diverse work experiences. Please be prepared to share with us how your perspective will bring something unique and valuable to our product teams
