Job Location:
Tyson’s Virginia with frequent travel to the Caribbean
Responsibilities:
• Responsible for managing/integrating a remote software development team’s product lifecycle
• Develop products from opportunity identification to launching solutions and testing the product around desirability, feasibility, and viability
• Able to turn requirements written in English and articulate the requirements to Spanish
• Able to travel outside the USA to meet with the product team on a regular basis
• Partner with senior product managers to implement the customer-centric product vision and ensure consistent alignment between business priorities and development objectives
• Define and execute user research to deepen understanding of customers’ needs, motivations, and pain points
• Manage the development of a product by participating in user testing, and iterating/defining a product’s quarterly roadmap
• Partner with UX designers, data engineering, developers, and technology teams (internal and external) to define business requirements, technical capabilities, and customer experiences, and features in the product roadmap
• Prioritize development of features as they align against product strategy
• Define product usage metrics and work with development teams to monitor
• Identify issues, risks and dependencies that will keep the product development activities from delivering on time and/or with the desired requirements, and communicate to product leadership
• Own and manage product documentation that expands knowledge beyond product team
• Contribute to efforts to shape product management and foster an agile, user-focused, product-led culture
• Prioritize what we should build and when by collaborating with stakeholders on product vision and strategy
• Share ideas and receive feedback on new features through frequent presentations before a new release
• Define how those features will work and look through close collaboration with engineers in design sessions, mockups, UX review, and usability testing
• Manage the release and sprint backlog through planning, backlog grooming, and working with dev, UX and other partners
• Ensure successful build out of features through development, review, and testing
• Ensure user success by guiding features through documentation, prioritization of bugs and enhancements, and performing usage analysis
Preferred and Must Haves:
• Must be fluent in Spanish (able to write and read)
• B.S. in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent background
• 5-10 years managing software and product delivery
• Must be familiar with Agile software development and software lifecycle
• You are a curious person and an engineer at heart with an innate desire to make an impact
• You understand what a roadmap for an enterprise software product looks like and can work with a team to guide the delivery
• You are exceptionally imaginative, collaborative, and truly excited about building great product features and experiences
• You have an ability to empathize with both stakeholders and end users to make the right compromises that can deliver value
• You have sharp negotiation skills, impressive organization, and superb writing abilities (In English and Spanish)
• Most importantly, you are passionate about software!