Program Product Manager
Agile Six
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $168,768 per year
Job Level
SeniorLead
About the role
- Foster a shared sense of purpose across product teams on the program. Define, communicate, and iteratively refine a clear vision that is compelling to users, stakeholders, and the team
- Establish clarity around the “why,” creating a shared sense of purpose at the sprint level so the teams can self-organize around solving problems
- Develop an expert understanding of the products, domains, users, and business
- Perform continuous product discovery leveraging UX research and design capabilities on the teams to identify and prioritize what needs the teams will meet in order to maximize value and outcome delivery
- Convey high level intent in a way that fosters creative, cross-functional problem solving, and that supports team self-organization and team member self-management (i.e. user stories, story maps, etc.)
- Communicate product strategy, roadmaps, and progress to stakeholders to empower informed decision-making
- Drive product development using agile delivery best practices. Work with the team Product Managers to manage the product roadmap and backlog and prioritize problems to be solved.
- Break down problems to be solved in ways that value can be delivered iteratively and incrementally. Lead the team to early validation of risky assumptions, and early and continuous delivery of value
- Collaborate with Program-level leads and team Product Managers in establishing standard best practices across all teams on the program.
- Balance strategic and tactical Product Management responsibilities based on the needs of the teams, stakeholders, and users
- Establish a healthy, trust-based rapport with teammates and stakeholders
- Collaboratively identify and work to understand stakeholder constraints. Develop solutions that address diverse and sometimes conflicting stakeholder needs.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience leveraging product discovery techniques that inform product vision, strategy, features, user stories, prioritization, and roadmapping
- With a relevant Bachelor’s degree, this requires 6+ years of Product Ownership/Management experience
- Effective communicator, leader, and motivator
- In-depth knowledge and application of Agile principles and practices
- Expertise in writing user stories and acceptance criteria that convey the what and why, leaving room for the team to creatively problem solve to determine the how
- Proven track record of launching products from conception to production, and managing clients and key stakeholders
- High level cross-disciplinary understanding of the software development process, including research, design, development, testing, and deployment
- Ability to effectively leverage one or more AI-powered prototyping tools and/or IDEs, including such tools as Vercel V0, Loveable, Replit, Copilot and Cursor, retaining oversight over all work produced by these tools.
- Experience utilizing AI tools and services and other enabling technologies such as MCP servers to understand problem domains, quickly prototype and vet solutions, and support software delivery on a cross-functional team
- Eagerness to grow one's AI skills and leverage AI where appropriate to improve outcomes
- Has lived and worked in the United States for 3 of the last 5 years
- Some of our clients may request or require travel from time to time. If this is a concern for you, we encourage you to apply and discuss it with us at your initial interview
Benefits
- Self-managed work/life balance and flexibility
- Competitive and equitable salary (equal pay for equal work)
- Employee Stock Ownership (ESOP) for all employees!
- 401K matching
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Employer paid short and long term disability insurance
- Employer paid life insurance
- Self-managed and generous paid time off
- Paid federal holidays and two floating holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Self-managed professional development spending
- Self-managed wellness days
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
product discovery techniquesproduct visionproduct strategyuser storiesacceptance criteriaAgile principlessoftware development processAI-powered prototyping toolsprototypingproblem domain analysis
Soft skills
effective communicatorleadermotivatorcollaborative problem solvingtrust-based rapportstakeholder managementstrategic thinkingtactical decision-makingteam self-organizationcreative problem solving