Product manager - Minneapolis, United States - Strayer University

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Strategic Education Inc. (SEI) seeks a dynamic leader to envision digital solutions and turn them into reality. The ideal candidate will collaborate with stakeholders to define a roadmap the supports the underlying technologies of the business.

This role is pivotal in creating, maintaining, and scaling a platform that supports educational opportunities for prospective students, then lead development teams to bring these ideas to life.

They will conduct ongoing research, understand the competitive environment, develop roadmaps, and partner with Agile teams to deliver innovative digital solutions.

Core responsibilities include:

Alerts, Logging, Reporting, Platform Tech Debt, Data Integrity, Web Forms, Lead Management, Platform Maintenance and Scalability, and Data Integrity.

We are seeking a candidate who is open to a hybrid work schedule, ideally based in Minneapolis.

Flexibility is key in our work environment, and our hybrid staff members typically spend two days a week in the office.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
Hire, onboard, develop, coach, and manage performance of a high performing team
Serve as technical IT marketing technology platform lead and product expert, overseeing the work of internal team for day-to-day project management and product development
Manage a growing technical team to ensure development of new products to drive revenue
Optimize current digital products and make recommendations for changes to products to maximize revenue, site traffic growth and user engagement

Responsibilities include the oversight of tech debt backlog that supports our Adobe Experience Manager platform, AEM cloud, AEM forms, alerts, logging, and enterprise platform maintenance and scalability.

Identify new opportunities from industry trends/challenges and perform market/competitive analysis to inform product decisions and roadmap.
Present ideas for new products and features prioritizing needs based on company objectives as well as data and analytics.
Manage and explore partnership opportunities with relevant industry players/third party vendors to improve business driven product KPIs.
Create and manage yearly budgets
Serve as escalation point for conflict with implementation.
Collaborate and communicate effectively with department heads (Engineering , Analytics, Operations, Customer Experience, etc...) to ensure all teams are aligned on organization's priorities and strategy


Technical Experience:
Enterprise content management systems (AEM preferred)
Enterprise customer relationship management
Data integrity and integrations
Content delivery network
Lead flow management systems


Job Skills:
Strong team and project management skills
Proven ability to manage multiple priorities
Skillful at working across a matrixed organization
Great communication, people and interpersonal skills
Has the ability to make decisions that not everyone agrees with.
Clear understanding of programming and design principles
Ability to identify requirement specifications implied by business needs, desires, and strategies
Creative thinker
Takes on new challenges with enthusiasm
Must be able to coach and lead a team and its members effectively
Must be able to think strategically and translate strategy into tactical operations

Work Experience:
At least 7 years of consumer product management experience
At least 5 years of experience managing people
At least 3 years of Agile Product Management experience
At least 3 years of experience leading cross-functional product teams

Education:

4 year Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Computer Science, or other related field

Certificates, licenses and registrations:
N/A

Other:
Must be able to travel 15% of time.
Must be able to lift 15 lbs.
Typical office setting.
Mobility within the office including movement from floor to floor.
Travel via plane, car, and metro may be required to perform this job.
Must be able to work more than 40 hours per week when business needs warrant
Access information using a computer.
Effectively communicate, both up and down the management chain.
Effectively cope with stressful situations
Strong mental acuity
Regular, dependable attendance and punctuality are essential functions of this job.
Other essential functions and marginal job functions are subject to modification.
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