Lead, Product Management

CDM Smith is seeking a Product Management Lead to join our Digital Engineering Solutions team. This role will help define the long-term digital product vision, value proposition, product strategy, and product roadmap. This position is for a person who has demonstrated excellence as a product manager or product owner and enjoys framing a problem, shaping & creating solutions, and helping to champion implementation of technology solutions. The ideal candidate will have a proven record in the field of product management, with a mindset of continuous learning and curiosity leading to tangible results.

Under the direction of the Senior Manager of Digital Enablement, the duties and responsibilities for this position include:

• Roadmap and vision: Leads and oversees highly complex and/or large commercial product roadmaps through collaboration with internal stakeholders and market strategy, sales and development teams. Prioritizes, refines, and manages the product roadmap for existing and proposed highly complex or large solutions within the market segment to meet key market and internal customer segment adoption milestones in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industries.
• Stakeholder engagement and requirements: Leads the process of engaging with internal customers and partners to gather requirements, prioritize needs, and understand business workflows. Conducts and guides more junior staff in conducting stakeholder feedback sessions, workshops and/or interviews. Translates feedback into user stories and use cases for implementation.
• Quality and testing: Performs acceptance testing for moderately to highly complex products. Documents findings and details to troubleshoot defects/bugs/errors. Works with the development team to replicate findings, perform root-cause analysis, and define a resolution.
• Team coordination and delivery: Responsible for maximizing the output of the development team. Participates in product development from conception to launch. Works day-to-day with development teams to oversee the flow of technical work, including participating in routine Agile meetings. Leads collaborations, facilitates sprint activities, and creates and communicates requirement artifacts that translate business needs into executable requirements.
• Risk Management: Communicates risks and partners with management to implement mitigation strategies. Contributes to the development of controls for an identified risk and obtains approval. Escalates risk events and/or gaps in a timely fashion through retrospectives and/or risk forum participation.
• Go-to-market, go-live and communications: Partners with marketing to help develop and maintain go-to-market plans and sales collateral for products of high complexity or large size. Leads product demonstrations, delivers presentations to customers and prospects, and creates supporting marketing collateral for both internal tool launches and client-facing digital solutions.
• People leadership: Leads, coaches, develops and trains assigned team members. Monitors staff workloads and provides team resources needed to ensure delivery of a high-quality outcome to complete their jobs. Provides ongoing feedback of performance to direct reports and may conduct performance reviews. Approves time sheets and ensures company policies are followed.
• Performs other duties as required.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree.
• 8 years of relevant experience.
• Equivalent additional directly related experience will be considered in lieu of a college degree.
• Domestic and/or international travel may be required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience as a product manager or product owner in an AEC, professional services, or B2B technology environment.
• Experience working on data, analytics, or AI-enabled products or internal tools.
• Formal training or certification in Product Management, Agile/Scrum, or Change Management.
• Experience with stakeholder management and communications.

EEO Statement:

CDM Smith is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, pregnancy related conditions, childbirth and related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression), national origin, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Skills and Abilities:

• Proficient in managing software products from inception to launch (preferably SaaS B2B software).
• Highly skilled at analyzing, thinking strategically, and providing creative solutions using technology.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and collaboration skills for working with team members, users, and external stakeholders.
• Good experience in design or engineering applications and technology for visualization, architecture, GIS, or analytics.
• Good knowledge of Agile software development practices and Product Management best practices.
• Ability to work with diverse internal and external stakeholders, at all levels of an organization, to extract informational needs and translate into detailed requirements/deliverables.
• Excellent interpersonal, presentation, and leadership skills to cultivate strategic relationships with colleagues, customers, and partners.
• Excellent self-motivation, creative skills, and team-oriented collaboration.
• Excellent ability to extract informational needs and translate into detailed requirements/deliverables.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional work across business units, IT, marketing/communications, legal, finance and other functions to deliver complex initiatives.
• Comfortable acting as a connector between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring alignment and clarity without being the sole owner of the product backlog.

Pay Range Minimum: $121,368

Pay Range Maximum: $212,368

Additional Compensation: All bonuses at CDM Smith are discretionary and may or may not apply to this position.

Work Location Options: Fully Remote or Hybrid Work Options may be considered for successful candidate.

Additional Pay Range Information: The pay range for this position is listed above. This pay range is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels for this position based on the geographic location assigned to the position. Please note that pay ranges vary based on geographic location. In addition to geographic location, the company considers several other factors when extending an offer including but not limited to the role, function and associated responsibilities, the candidate's work experience, education/training and key skills.

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