Product Manager

Job title: Product Manager

Long Term Contract

Location: Reston, VA

Must have experiences

• 7+ years' experience developing product features from ideation through launch.
• 7 + years' experience creating and writing effective Agile user stories, creative briefs, formal business requirement documents.
• Business-owner / entrepreneurial mindset
• Experience Proven ability to make smart feature vs. time-to-market trade-offs
  
  

Good to have experiences

Any experience with E-commerce customer journey and writing business cases/ OKR's would be great plus.

Customer-facing product (Y/N): Y

Technical (Y/N): Y

Personality

Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical teams.

Role & Responsibilities

The Product Manager will own the strategy, roadmap and execution of app and web experiences for customers

Focus relentlessly on the mobile customer experience for existing & new customers. Develop vision for the ideal customer experience and initiate projects to realize this vision.

Own a KPI across digital platforms. Grow this KPI throughout product and non-product initiatives that cut across various departments (technology, marketing, operations).

Execute flawlessly on major product launches through a deep understanding of the product vision, desired customer experience and attention to details throughout the development process.

Establish and maintain development priorities across the organization and work with key partners by ensuring understanding of the product vision and its importance, and developing reciprocal win-win relationships.

Develop business requirements for roadmap items and ensure they get translated correctly into product requirements and user stories.

Continually develop and test ideas through usability tests, consumer panels, user research, A/B tests, and other research methodologies.

Conducts competitive and industry best-practice analysis, monitors web/app industry trends, and makes recommendations that impact overall company strategy/roadmap

Gain and maintain executive approval for new projects by developing effective business cases and persuasive arguments to support new ideas.

Develop and manage KPIs and prioritize work in order to achieve results.

Skills

7+ years' experience developing product features from ideation through launch.

7 + years' experience creating and writing effective Agile user stories, creative briefs, formal business requirement documents

Business-owner / entrepreneurial mindset

Experience Proven ability to make smart feature vs. time-to-market trade-offs

Experience using data and metrics to back up assumptions and assertions of business value

Strong bias for action; ability to juggle multiple priorities and create a sense of urgency in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

Solid knowledge of A/B testing concepts and execution on digital properties

Prior Consulting Experienced Highly Preferred

Any experience with E-commerce customer journey and writing business cases/ OKR's would be great plus.

Bachelor's Degree, MBA preferred