
Associate Product Manager
PrePass
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Phoenix • Arizona • United States
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About the role
- **Essential Responsibilities**
- ** Product Ownership & Delivery**
- - Own and drive the product backlog, ensuring alignment with product strategy, business objectives, and customer needs.
- - Make informed prioritization decisions within and across sprints to maximize customer and business value.
- - Ensure backlog items are clearly articulated, well-refined, and appropriately estimated to support predictable delivery.
- - Lead sprint planning, backlog refinement, and discovery sessions, translating complex requirements into clear, actionable user stories.
- - Partner with Product Management to support roadmap execution and incremental delivery of strategic initiatives.
- **Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement**
- - Collaborate closely with engineering, design, QA, and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality features on time.
- - Act as a trusted subject matter expert for the web platform, serving as a key point of contact for internal teams.
- - Proactively communicate priorities, trade-offs, risks, and progress to stakeholders across the organization.
- - Support alignment across teams by balancing technical constraints, user experience, and business priorities.
- **Innovation & Continuous Improvement**
- - Stay current on industry trends, web and API technologies, and Agile best practices to inform product decisions.
- - Identify opportunities to improve development processes, product scalability, and customer experience.
- - Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement through data-informed decision-making and iterative learning**.**
Requirements
- **Qualifications**
- - Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- - 5+ years of experience as a Product Owner, Associate Product Manager, or in a similar product-focused role.
- - Strong experience in business process analysis and translating requirements into technical solutions.
- - Solid understanding of web application and API-based systems.
- - Proficiency with Agile/Scrum methodologies and backlog management tools (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps).
- - Excellent decision-making, communication, and organizational skills.
- - Familiarity with user-centered design principles and modern web usability standards.
- - Ability to influence cross-functional teams and drive outcomes without direct authority.
- - Some travel may be required.
- **Desired Characteristics**
- - Strategic, outcome-oriented thinker with a proactive problem-solving mindset.
- - Comfortable operating in ambiguity while maintaining clarity and forward momentum.
- - Strong collaborator with the ability to influence across technical and non-technical teams.
- - High level of ownership, accountability, and follow-through.
- - Passion for continuous improvement and delivering meaningful customer value.
Benefits
- **How We Will Take Care of You**
- - Robust benefit package that includes medical, dental, and vision that start on date of hire.
- - Paid Time Off, to include vacation, sick, holidays, and floating holidays.
- - Paid parental leave.
- - 401(k) plan with employer match.
- - Company-funded “lifestyle account” upon date of hire for you to apply toward your physical and mental well-being (i.e., ski passes, retreats, gym memberships).
- - Tuition Reimbursement Program.
- - Voluntary benefits, to include, but not limited to Legal and Pet Discounts.
- - Employee Assistance Program (available at no cost to you).
- - Company-sponsored and funded “Culture Team” that focuses on the Physical, Mental, and Professional well-being of employees.
- - Community Give-Back initiatives.
- - Culture that focuses on employee development initiatives.
- - Company-wide bonus and commission plans.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
product ownershipbacklog managementbusiness process analysisweb application systemsAPI-based systemsAgile methodologiesScrum methodologiesuser-centered design principlestechnical solutionsdata-informed decision-making
Soft Skills
decision-makingcommunicationorganizational skillsproblem-solving mindsetcollaborationinfluenceownershipaccountabilityproactiveadaptability
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree