Product Manager – L4
Gugu Robotics
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Lead requirements gathering sessions with client stakeholders to understand business goals, operational workflows, and product needs.
- Facilitate prioritization and tradeoff decisions across usability, feasibility, and business value, helping stakeholders with competing interests reach alignment.
- Translate requirements into product roadmaps, feature documentation, and product requirements documents (PRDs).
- Define functional requirements, acceptance criteria, and success metrics for product features.
- Break down product initiatives into Epics, Features, and User Stories suitable for agile development teams.
- Ensure requirements are clear, actionable, and aligned with the overall product vision and delivery goals.
- Own and manage the product backlog, ensuring work is clearly defined, prioritized, and aligned with business objectives.
- Maintain backlog health through continuous refinement and prioritization.
- Work with engineering and design teams to ensure stories are well-defined, technically feasible, and ready for development.
- Maintain visibility into scope, dependencies, delivery risks, and trade-offs.
- Balance near-term sprint delivery with long-term product scalability and maintainability.
- Facilitate core agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily standups, backlog grooming sessions, sprint reviews and demos, and retrospectives.
- Ensure teams maintain clear sprint goals and consistent delivery cadence.
- Monitor delivery progress and adjust priorities as needed to meet business and client objectives.
- Serve as a primary product contact for both client stakeholders and internal teams.
- Proactively manage expectations, surface risks and tradeoff implications early, before they become delivery problems.
- Communicate priorities, delivery progress, and product decisions clearly and proactively.
- Translate technical concepts into business language and business requirements into actionable development work.
- Work closely with engineers, designers, architects, and project managers to align on product priorities and delivery timelines.
- Support roadmap planning, release coordination, and expectation management.
- Validate delivered features against acceptance criteria and intended business outcomes.
- Ensure delivered functionality meets quality, usability, and product expectations.
- Identify risks, dependencies, and ambiguities early, driving timely resolution.
- Continuously improve product documentation, backlog management practices, and team collaboration workflows.
Requirements
- 7–10 years of experience in a Product Owner, Product Manager, or similar product delivery role within a software development environment.
- Demonstrated track record leading complex product delivery through the full agile lifecycle.
- Strong experience running product discovery, facilitating stakeholder workshops and requirements gathering sessions.
- Strong product ownership experience: backlog management, feature prioritization, story writing, sprint ceremonies, and requirement documentation.
- Proven experience delivering end-to-end web applications, comfortable enough with backend services and REST APIs to participate in architecture discussions and write meaningful stories.
- Proficiency with AI productivity tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot) for research, writing, information synthesis, and workflow automation.
- Experience supporting complex digital product delivery involving cross-functional engineering teams.
- Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum delivery practices and product ownership responsibilities.
- Proven experience translating business requirements into structured product documentation and user stories.
- Experience facilitating stakeholder workshops and requirements gathering sessions.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Professional development opportunities
- Flexible work arrangements
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
product ownershipbacklog managementfeature prioritizationstory writingsprint ceremoniesrequirement documentationagile lifecycleweb applicationsREST APIsproduct documentation
Soft Skills
stakeholder managementcommunicationfacilitationalignmentexpectation managementrisk managementcollaborationproblem-solvingprioritizationcontinuous improvement