Our eCommerce Client is seeking a Product Manager!
Location: Hybrid in San Jose, CA
Length: W2 Contract until EOY
Responsibilities:
Customer Focus: Listen to end-users and integrate their feedback into the product development process.
Continuous Improvement: Partner with design and research teams to gather insights and feedback throughout the product lifecycle.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with product, design, and engineering teams across the company to align plans and gain support from analytics, marketing, operations, sales, and strategy functions.
Data-Driven Decisions: Synthesize customer insights, quantitative and qualitative data, and business strategy into product concepts and requirements.
Competitive Analysis: Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of competitive offerings.
Agile Methodologies: Break down features into manageable tasks and create actionable epics, user stories, bugs, and technical specifications.
Technical Understanding: Develop a clear understanding of the technical architecture and design to identify dependencies and work with engineering partners to define scope and timelines.
Project Management: Collaborate with program managers and stakeholders to track progress, identify risks, and report status to leadership.
Engineering Collaboration: Convert customer problems into functional and technical requirements and architectural solutions. Lead technical scoping discussions and make trade-off decisions based on engineering effort and customer impact.
Quality Assurance: Work closely with engineers during software development, review test cases, and lead software testing sessions to ensure high-quality product releases that meet SLAs.
Release Coordination: Coordinate software releases, including release notes, training, and marketing, to maximize the impact of end-to-end product solutions.
Requirements:
Strong customer empathy and a passion for building great user experiences across web and mobile devices.
Solid technical background with experience managing software products using agile methodologies.
Customer/user focus with a "can do" attitude.
Ability to write clear, complete, and implementable user stories and specifications.
Excellent project management skills and the ability to coordinate and work on cross-group projects.
Innovative design and problem-solving skills.
Capability to work independently and drive projects with many moving parts.
At least 5 years of experience as a product manager working on consumer-facing products.
Experience with e-commerce is highly desired.
Contact: jwarchol@judge.com
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