Lead Product Manager - Atlanta, United States - WIVERSE

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    Lead Product Manager
    Location: Remote with travel to Draper, UT or Atlanta, GA
    Pay rate: W2 hourly
    Top 5 Must Haves:
    High technical skill level, experience with data mapping, experience in building APIs, any project management experience a plus. And experience with understanding and refining technical specifications.
    Strategy/Discovery:
    • Perform market assessments and create an in-depth understanding of user needs by persona to ensure appropriate direction of impacted products. Assess competitive landscape and determine the most efficient course of action to achieve goals.
    • Conduct problem discovery activities, both qualitative and quantitative, to understand user pain points and determine opportunities for new solutions.
    • Establish concise value statements, objectives, and key results for product initiatives that will guide the organization and delivery teams in measuring success.
    Planning:
    • Create and maintain product vision and roadmap, including development of go-to-market strategy and value-proposition messaging. Provide relevant, timely and easily consumable updates to all internal and external audiences.
    • Manage the full product lifecycle to ensure that the needs of internal and external customers are met.
    • Coordinate in-market tests, experiments, pilots, and product launches to support in-flight data initiatives.
    Development:
    • Build an effective partnership between Product & Engineering, collaborating with Product, User Experience, Engineering, and Architecture teams to execute work.
    • Serve as the "voice of the customer" to the team and delivery stream by representing and reinforcing the customer's perspective throughout product realization cycles.
    • Provide clear direction to delivery teams on defined product priorities and schedules, in collaboration with product leads and the release train cores
    • Ensure delivery of value-added functionality to users by partnering with Engineering to build solutions.
    Relationship Management & Client Engagement:
    • Partner with product managers, business stakeholders to understand needs, create alignment, and gain adoption of new functionality to solve their needs.
    • Lead change management and training endeavors necessary to launch and propagate use of a product to its customers.
    • Identify communication and relationship needs of stakeholder groups, translating engagement strategies into specific activities and deliverables.
    • Facilitate open communication and discussion between stakeholders, acting as a single point of contact. Conduct informed feedback loops to assess and promote understanding.
    • Negotiate solutions between parties effectively and for the best of Client; be autonomous and make decisions without oversight when appropriate
    Innovation & Evaluation
    • Assess product performance against KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and adjust to improve performance; create and deliver thoughtful information to influence key market constituents.
    • Manage innovative ideas and a pipeline to prototype on them. Encourage and facilitate communication and open flow of creative ideas between interested parties and the set-up of innovation efforts related to the product.
    Qualifications:

    Required Knowledge, Experience & Education:
    • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering, Communications, or related field; Masters degree preferred
    • 7+ years experience in product development; or equivalent combination of education and work-related experience.
    • Proficiency in Human Centered Design principles and Design Thinking techniques, including LUMA methods
    • Proficiency in Salesforce platform capabilities, including demonstrated experience with designing, implementing, and advocating for solutions utilizing the Salesforce platform
    • Requires and applies comprehensive knowledge of business, product maturity and performance, and industry principles, practices, and procedures.
    • Working knowledge for SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) Agile Methodology.
    • Actively seeks out new knowledge for own personal development and the mentoring or coaching of others.
    • Develops a wide breadth of knowledge across industry or business.
    • Applies knowledge to help to define the standards which others will apply.
    • Working experience in design, development, and implementation of product plans.
    • Working experience in full product lifecycle methodologies.
    • Working experience in creating, prioritizing, and recommending epics and features.
    • Working experience in in conducting competitive research and analysis.
    • Working experience in identifying KPI's and other analytics to measure product value.
    • Working experience with executive presentations.
    • Working experience in a collaborative, cross-functional, and complex team environment
    • Certifications are a plus: (Salesforce Certified Administrator; Certified Sales Cloud Consultant; Certified Platform App Builder).