product manager

job summary: Enterprise Healthcare client has an immediate opening for a highly motivated Agile Product Management Advisor to join their dynamic and growing team. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply! Leverages knowledge of the product's value stream and system interactions to identify when new features or product changes are needed to achieve business value.   location: Bloomfield, Connecticut job type: Contract salary: $45.14 - 55.14 per hour work hours: 8am to 5pm education: Bachelors   responsibilities: Focused on continuous learning, adopting probe and learn approach for self-learningLeverages knowledge of the product's value stream and system interactions to identify when new features or product changes are needed to achieve business value. Has a sound understanding of breaking down a problem/ ask to requirements. Understands the aspects of well-rounded requirements (functional/ non-functional)Communicates stakeholder goals and expected outcomes to the engineering/ Solution Architect/ Principal engineering team and writes definition-of-ready user stories, incorporating architectural changes recommended by engineering. Facilitates product backlog grooming sessions, ensuring the highest impact work is delivered soonest. Responsible for maintaining product technical roadmap and advocating prioritization at the right time for non-functional work.Adept at building relationship with business, technology partners to establish a circle of trust with stakeholders. Has overall ownership of a defined capability or technical product area, including product value, cost of ownership, health and non-functional requirements (reliability, scalability, usability, security, performance, etc.). Cultivates trusted relationships with Business/BAT and Technology partners to foster teamwork and a shared understanding of the product vision, goals and priorities. Leads sprint planning , story refinement , feature elaboration sessions with business and technology stakeholders. Actively participates in planning sessions that form cohesive, iterative plans and ensure the team's work creates the iterative value (e.g. supports the completion of MVPs/Epics in concert with other teams). Proactively resolve upstream dependencies and resolve conflict effectively across teams.Participates in team standups, and retrospectives, facilitates dialog with stakeholders during sprint reviews/product demos. Identifies, monitors and communicates technical product health metrics and KPIs and advocates for product improvements with Business/Technology partners. Manages allocation of team capacity to ensure appropriate levels are utilized for product health improvements and reduction of technical debt (e.g. integration and deployment of tooling, test automation, etc.)Leverages agility tools (e.g., Jira) and implements strategies to optimize team performance and achieve overall department objectives (e.g., manage story aging, manage WIP, epic size/throughput, etc.)   qualifications: Experience level: ManagerMinimum 5 years of experienceEducation: Bachelors (required)  skills: Product ManagementJIRA Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact HRsupport@randstadusa.com. Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health, an incentive and recognition program, and 401K contribution (all benefits are based on eligibility). This posting is open for thirty (30) days.

job summary: Hybrid Flex hours The Product Manager is accountable for the ongoing planning, development, implementation of various product initiatives and enhancements across multiple business units of the bank. The Product Manager utilizes their deep understanding of the product to collaborate with our strategic business partners, develop an understanding of customer needs, identify ideal partner experiences, and incorporate feedback from technical or engineering teams and the vendor to offer innovative solutions that are valuable to our partners. This requires a both a product roadmap and focused product backlog that is aligned and prioritized with the Simmons Bank competencies, goals, and initiatives. The Product Manager must navigate the interrelationship between these areas and be decisive in their prioritization to ensure the product team is always focused on delivering high value to the organization. The Product Manager advances maturity of the people, processes, and technology for their product by working closely with internal and external stakeholders, vendors, consultants, and team members. Some after hours and weekend work required. Responsibilities Product Management: Maintains product roadmap and product backlog across different business units and concurrent tracks inputs from business partners through demand management channel and by pro-actively finding opportunities for business enhancements and strategyLeads, plans, coordinates, and executes the application program and associated projects with a clear focus on communication, risk, schedule and budget management in a dynamic environment.Define a vision and strategy for the product, in support of Simmons Bank organizational competencies, goals, and initiatives.Provide operational leadership and understanding of the development path for the product.Ensure the product roadmap and product backlog are visible, clearly ordered, and actively maintained to ensure work is focused on achieving the established product vision and strategy.Perform continual assessment of available technologies and software to facilitate continuous improvements to meet operational goals.Monitor satisfaction with their product, identify opportunities, and implement changes to drive solution delivery.Ensure the product is well maintained, minimizing technical debt, to enable long-term stability of its services.Ensure product bac.klogs, user stories, implementation plans are documented and maintained as per agile principles Cross Functional Team Leadership Lead cross-functional teams among stakeholders and ensure these cross functional teams support the goals for deriving value from the product.Works closely with business leads, subject matter experts, and other data products end user to understand opportunities.Works closely with cross functional business and internal IT team to maximize the value of the product requirements and working to remove conflicts between dependencies.Serve as the leader of the product team, providing direction and accountability for advancing the value of the product.Works with a right balance of technical project management skills to manage data product development lifecycle and ensuring process, governance aligns with agile principles or business agreed execution methodology. Organizational Change Management & Communication Leads or ensures appropriate change management efforts while adapting to the needs of the business, and project(s) by engaging with appropriate teams on proper approach, style, usage of tools, and standards.Owns standards for the release cycle updates for the product.Develops and maintains overall strategy for timeline, planning, testing, dependencies, considerations, and communication plan across operational teams for each update cycle.Utilizes understanding of change management processes, principles, and methodologies. Execution & Optimization Engages with product teams, business stakeholders, and vendors to align best practices within individual business needs.Maintains updated optimization plan across the application to achieve maximum value from the product.Utilizes existing governance channels and processes to inform and escalate key issues within overall sustainment and optimization decisions across teams and systems. Your expertise in one or more of the following areas is highly valued: Experience and in depth understanding of waterfall and agile delivery models.Experience of project management involving transformation or cloud migration scope.In depth understanding of development lifecycle and Operations handover.Experience with a testing framework.Experience with Business Intelligence tools like PowerBI, Cognos or Looker and Understanding of Datawarehouse fundamentals. What Sets You Apart Experience in complex migrations from legacy data warehousing solutions or on-prem datalakes to GCP.Any management certification - PMP, CSM etc.Any cloud certification for understanding of Cloud Fundamentals (Fundamental knowledge) Education BS/BA degree in IT or any other stream.6-8 years relevant experience in managing product planning and deliveryAny certification or additional course on production management delivery or strategy   location: Dallas, Texas job type: Permanent salary: $140,000 - 160,000 per year work hours: 8am to 4pm education: Bachelors   responsibilities: Experience and in depth understanding of waterfall and agile delivery models.Experience of project management involving transformation or cloud migration scope.In depth understanding of development lifecycle and Operations handover.Experience with a testing framework.Experience with Business Intelligence tools like PowerBI, Cognos or Looker and Understanding of Datawarehouse fundamentals.   qualifications: Experience level: ExperiencedMinimum 5 years of experienceEducation: Bachelors  skills: Google Cloud Platform (GCP) (4 years of experience is required)Data AnalysisBigQuerySQLPythonSSISScrum MasterProject ManagementProduct OwnerBankingProduct ManagementSQL Server Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact HRsupport@randstadusa.com. Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health, an incentive and recognition program, and 401K contribution (all benefits are based on eligibility). This posting is open for thirty (30) days.

job summary: The role of the Product Owner is a pivotal one that is expected to be aware of industry trends, clients' needs (including internal clients), and the fundamentals of software solutions. In addition, you are expected to have a good grasp of business operations and processes that impact your product.As a Product Owner, you will convert your understanding of the marketplace, client needs, and operations into product requirements (user stories) for the Scrum team(s) in support of meeting business objectives.You will champion your product(s) and lead cross-functional initiatives within a matrixed organization.This role will have a robust focus on the back-end automation of existing business processes, but there may be a front-end element as well depending on business priorities and specific initiatives. - Detailed understanding and knowledge of the retirement industry. Ability to utilize that knowledge to inform product roadmaps and write user stories that capture edge-cases and scenarios. - Detailed understanding and knowledge of business operations, processes, and procedures. Ability to utilize that knowledge to inform trade-off decisions, identify edge-cases and scenarios that need to be defined for the scrum team, inform troubleshooting and help identify business workarounds when needed. - Ability to gather information from multiple sources (internal and through primary and secondary research) and synthesize them to uncover trends that draw out relevant and actionable conclusions. - Be able to conceptualize solutions that leverage current technologies through the understanding of industry trends, internal business drivers and client needs. - Translate needs and business imperatives from product vision and roadmaps for use in setting priorities and guiding the work of the Scrum team(s). - Ability to think and act creatively by stepping outside standard convention to identify potential "out of the box" solutions. - Apply management and collaboration skills to orchestrate and maximize the work and deliverables of cross-organization and cross-functional teams assigned to product initiatives. - Possess the ability to maintain focus and drive results in all business cycles and environments. - Demonstrate adaptability when projects need to deviate from original plans or shift direction based on changing needs and priorities. - Be a great listener - Understand the value of listening to client needs and understand the deeper underlying problem that needs to be addressed. - Servant Leadership - Able to garner respect from your Scrum team(s), lead and demonstrate value-add principles, and willing and able to get your hands dirty to get the job done . - Attitude of transparency - Desire and ability to bring disclosure and transparency to the Scrum team and grow trust between the business and development. - Conflict resolution - Able to facilitate discussion of issues, different approaches, alternatives, and effectively resolve them promptly. - Fully educated and conversant on the Scrum process according to the Scrum Guide and can apply their understanding in practical terms. - A thorough understanding and appreciation for Agile values and principles. - Thorough understanding of and proven ability to: o Write user stories and acceptance criteria o Split large stories into smaller stories o Groom the backlog o Conduct Release planning o Conduct Sprint planning o Navigate the Sprint review activities - Possess a robust grasp of software development and technology. Desired - Prior retirement business and operational experience - Scrum Product Owner certification - Experience in a Scaled Agile framework - Prior experience using Jira and Rally   location: Richfield, Ohio job type: Contract salary: $48.12 - 53.12 per hour work hours: 8am to 5pm education: Bachelors   responsibilities: - Detailed understanding and knowledge of the retirement industry. Ability to utilize that knowledge to inform product roadmaps and write user stories that capture edge-cases and scenarios. - Detailed understanding and knowledge of business operations, processes, and procedures. Ability to utilize that knowledge to inform trade-off decisions, identify edge-cases and scenarios that need to be defined for the scrum team, inform troubleshooting and help identify business workarounds when needed. - Ability to gather information from multiple sources (internal and through primary and secondary research) and synthesize them to uncover trends that draw out relevant and actionable conclusions. - Be able to conceptualize solutions that leverage current technologies through the understanding of industry trends, internal business drivers and client needs. - Translate needs and business imperatives from product vision and roadmaps for use in setting priorities and guiding the work of the Scrum team(s). - Ability to think and act creatively by stepping outside standard convention to identify potential "out of the box" solutions. - Apply management and collaboration skills to orchestrate and maximize the work and deliverables of cross-organization and cross-functional teams assigned to product initiatives. - Possess the ability to maintain focus and drive results in all business cycles and environments. - Demonstrate adaptability when projects need to deviate from original plans or shift direction based on changing needs and priorities. - Be a great listener - Understand the value of listening to client needs and understand the deeper underlying problem that needs to be addressed. - Servant Leadership - Able to garner respect from your Scrum team(s), lead and demonstrate value-add principles, and willing and able to get your hands dirty to get the job done . - Attitude of transparency - Desire and ability to bring disclosure and transparency to the Scrum team and grow trust between the business and development. - Conflict resolution - Able to facilitate discussion of issues, different approaches, alternatives, and effectively resolve them promptly. - Fully educated and conversant on the Scrum process according to the Scrum Guide and can apply their understanding in practical terms. - A thorough understanding and appreciation for Agile values and principles. - Thorough understanding of and proven ability to: o Write user stories and acceptance criteria o Split large stories into smaller stories o Groom the backlog o Conduct Release planning o Conduct Sprint planning o Navigate the Sprint review activities - Possess a robust grasp of software development and technology. Desired - Prior retirement business and operational experience - Scrum Product Owner certification - Experience in a Scaled Agile framework - Prior experience using Jira and Rally   qualifications: Experience level: ExperiencedMinimum 5 years of experienceEducation: Bachelors  skills: Product Management (3 years of experience is required)JIRA (3 years of experience is required)Scrum Master (3 years of experience is required) Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact HRsupport@randstadusa.com. Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health, an incentive and recognition program, and 401K contribution (all benefits are based on eligibility). This posting is open for thirty (30) days.