Product Manager

Product Manager (New Product Development)This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Product Manager based in the United States.
This is a hands-on product leadership opportunity for an experienced professional passionate about building cloud-native software applications and delivering measurable user value. You will take ownership of a product backlog, working closely with engineers and designers to turn user needs and business goals into effective solutions. Combining product discovery, technical collaboration, and agile delivery, you will guide one dedicated team through the full product development lifecycle. You will use research, experimentation, and product analytics to make informed decisions and continuously improve releases. As a key client-facing partner, you will communicate progress, recommend priorities, and ensure stakeholders remain confident in the product direction. The role offers a dynamic, project-based consulting environment with a strong emphasis on accountability and delivery.
AccountabilitiesYou will own the day-to-day product direction and delivery, ensuring that the team consistently builds the right solutions and achieves agreed user and business outcomes. Your responsibilities will include:Backlog ownership: Manage the product backlog end to end, personally writing user stories and acceptance criteria, breaking work into manageable increments, and maintaining at least two sprints of refined, ready-to-build work.
Product discovery: Partner with UX and engineering teams to conduct user interviews, usability tests, prototyping, and lightweight experiments, ensuring product decisions are grounded in user research and evidence.
Daily team collaboration: Work closely with engineers and designers, participate in daily stand-ups, resolve questions promptly, review work in progress, and accept or reject completed stories against defined acceptance criteria.
Prioritization and decision-making: Rank initiatives according to user value and business impact, make timely scope and sequencing decisions, explain trade-offs, and adapt priorities as new evidence emerges.
Outcome measurement: Establish success metrics with client sponsors, track indicators such as adoption, task completion, conversion, and user satisfaction, and use release performance to inform future backlog decisions.
Technical collaboration: Develop a strong understanding of product architecture and engage in discussions about APIs, data models, and integrations. Independently retrieve and analyze product data to support decisions.
Release management: Coordinate frequent releases with engineering teams through CI/CD processes, prepare release notes, and manage rollout communications with client stakeholders.
Product vision and roadmap: Translate client objectives into a clear product vision and actionable near-term roadmap that guides team execution.
Agile delivery: Participate actively in Sprint Planning, Reviews, Retrospectives, and scaled Agile activities such as PI Planning. Maintain a refined, sized, and dependency-mapped backlog while collaborating with the Scrum Master to improve delivery flow and predictability.
Client engagement: Act as the primary product representative to client sponsors, leading demonstrations, regular check-ins, discovery workshops, and stakeholder discussions with clear, evidence-based recommendations.
Delivery performance: Track engagement-specific success measures, including outcomes delivered, backlog quality, release frequency, and client satisfaction.
Initial delivery milestones: Establish a product baseline within the first 30 days, covering users, objectives, current metrics, and backlog health, and deliver an agreed roadmap with measurable outcome targets within 90 days.
Risk and stakeholder management: Anticipate upcoming decisions and delivery risks, escalate issues early with recommended solutions, and keep clients and teammates informed.
Consulting delivery: Balance client outcomes with project schedules, utilization targets, and the expectations of a billable, project-based environment.
RequirementsThe ideal candidate is a decisive, technically fluent product professional who combines strong discovery and delivery skills with client-facing experience. The required qualifications include:Bachelor's degree in a relevant field; an advanced degree is considered an advantage.
At least five years of hands-on Product Manager or Product Owner experience within software or application development teams.
Demonstrated ownership of product backlogs, including personally writing user stories and acceptance criteria.
Current or recent experience, ideally within the past five years, at a product-led technology company or in the digital or product practice of a leading consulting firm.
Proven experience conducting product discovery with UX and design teams, including user interviews, usability testing, and prototyping.
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