Senior Product Manager (contract / contract-to-hire)

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Requirements:

• 3–5 years of experience managing delivery activities for custom enterprise software products in an Agile environment.
• Proven accountability for an enterprise software product vertical, including vision, strategy, roadmap, and performance metrics.
• Experience leading enterprise software development teams and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Demonstrated success shipping consumer-facing features or products to market.
• Strong expertise in software delivery methods, including Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid frameworks.
• Skilled in facilitating design workshops, stakeholder management, and building consensus in complex or ambiguous situations.
• Excellent leadership, communication, organizational, and presentation skills.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and a track record of aligning stakeholder expectations.
• Knowledge of heavily regulated and compliance-driven industries (e.g., government, transportation, energy, healthcare) is required.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work/training experience; multiple years of relevant experience and a high school diploma may substitute.

Responsibilities:

• Represent the voice of the customer, advocating for user needs within the product delivery team.
• Develop and present product strategies and ideas to stakeholders.
• Lead delivery teams, facilitating ceremonies, writing and refining user stories, and coordinating activities.
• Conduct workshops to define problems, generate hypotheses, promote ideation, and manage tradeoffs.
• Collaborate with external stakeholders to gather and fulfill business requirements and user needs.
• Serve as the primary point of contact between the delivery team and external stakeholders.
• Maintain a prioritized product backlog, defining user stories, acceptance criteria, and 'done' criteria.
• Manage the product roadmap, aligning value milestones with the development team and stakeholders.
• Set delivery goals and oversee requirements clarification, planning, and production releases.
• Collaborate closely with the client’s internal project manager to build trust and ensure alignment.
• Partner with a Mindgrub Business Analyst to support this role's responsibilities.
• Work alongside a Mindgrub Account Manager and a Mindgrub Project Manager.