Responsibilities and Contributions
Organizational and Leadership Role
- Guides the team, customer, and end users to build a product vision, roadmap, and strategy
- Aligns client stakeholders
- Translates roadmaps and visions into user stories and epics.
Functional Role
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- Develops, communicates, and executes long-term product vision and strategy
- Creates the product roadmap to help clients formulate, prioritize, and implement short and long-term planning
- Manages the discovery phase to ensure proper problem identification validation
- Effectively manages stakeholder communication and ensures stakeholder requirements, business needs, and user needs are aligned
- Serves as a consultant to client product owners on backlog prioritization, epic/feature/use case/user story creation, identifying user personas, and acceptance criteria.
- Partners with clients to develop and monitor strategies for user adoption, cost savings, and informing product decisions
- Creates value propositions and partners with stakeholders to establish Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
- Identifies and communicates risks, business opportunities, and dependencies to the client
- Builds and maintains strong working relationships with the client, team members, and partner organizations
- Coaches and serves as a subject matter expert for client product owners.
Essential Skills, Experience, or Competencies
Must-Have Skills
- Experience working with APIs and technology used as APIs are developed or previous professional experience as a DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Solutions Architect, Software Engineer, or product manager who has worked closely with DevOps Engineers.
- Experience with data management and data exchanges.
- Demonstrated experience as a product owner or product manager.
- Experience sharing knowledge across a multi-disciplinary team and working within agile methodologies.
- Experience supporting the delivery, ongoing success, and continuous improvement of digital products and/or platforms.
- Experience deeply understanding client/end user's needs and conveying those needs to the team(s).
- Experience translating requirements into epics and user stories to populate, manage, prioritize, and groom the product backlog.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable presenting to internal and external audiences.
- Extensive knowledge of product ownership roles and a solid understanding of ownership gaps.
- Ability to operate and manage work, strategically reason, build relationships, and influence others.
- Ability to successfully acquire Public Trust Clearance before start of position.
- Ability to successfully acquire CDC Clearance after beginning position.
Icing-on-the-Cake Skills
- Experience consulting in product management.
- Product management experience in local, state, or federal government contracting and/or consulting.
- Experience coaching and/or training internal and external audiences in product management best practices.
So, what’s next?
Over the years, we’ve honed our interview process to help ensure that every employee we hire is the right fit for us and that we’re the right fit for them. If we think you’re a good fit, we’ll get in touch and start scheduling your interviews! Depending on the role's/project's requirements, the interview process may include some differences. At the minimum
- Introductory Interview: This is where you and your recruiter will build rapport, explore your career and educational background, discuss salary expectations, role requirements, and set expectations for the interview process, specific to the position of interest.
- Technical Interview (Skills Fit): This is where we get into the nitty gritty of the project. During the Technical Interview, you’ll be interviewed by the technical team to dig more into your background and technical capabilities.
- Business Interview: At this point, you’ve made it to the final frontier! The Business Interview is when you’ll meet with Fearless leadership to dot the i’s, cross the t’s, and determine whether or not we’ll be moving forward with the hiring process.
