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ID #20059247
State Illinois
City Chicago
Job type Contract
Salary USD Depends on Experience Depends on Experience
Source SPECTRAFORCE TECHNOLOGIES Inc.
Showed 2021-09-22
Date 2021-09-14
Deadline 2021-11-12
Category Marketing/advertising/PR
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Jr. Product Owner

Illinois, Chicago, 60290 Chicago USA

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Title: Jr. Product Owner

Location: Chicago, IL (Initially Remote)

Duration: 06 Months

Description: The client is looking for a Junior Product Manager with 1-3 years of experience in Marketing and/or Communications to help inform and guide the product strategy of several technology solutions for airport operations. This Junior Product Manager will own strategic analysis for the products by identifying and quantifying opportunities to improve products and help define key requirements. Additionally, the Junior PM will help design and develop product release materials, communications and “pitch decks” for stakeholders and users to help further drive the success of the product. As an agile product manager, you will be a close partner with engineering and act as the voice of the customer and the business for engineering. You will have insight into all phases of the product development cycle

Roles:
  • You approach problems with a blend of analytics, user empathy, and intuition
  • You have an aptitude for learning and communicating technical concepts
  • You’re a problem solver that can anticipate and resolve potential issues before they impact the team
  • Great at building relationships and maintaining diplomacy in times of stress
  • Thrives on the idea of identifying new and creative ways to drive innovation
  • An excellent communicator who understands marketing and storytelling Organized, driven, and a self-starter
  • You are able to identify root causes of problems and solve them quickly in collaboration with other team members or on your own
  • You thrive in fast-paced environment with changing priorities and bring and approach challenges with an agile mindset
  • You are not afraid to share your point of view and are open to feedback
  • Great with interpersonal, communication, and listening skills – you respectfully challenge, provide fresh insight, and help encourage your colleagues to challenge in return to get the best result
  • Comfortable in facilitating discussions around product capabilities and market relevance with cross-functional teams, end-users, partners, engineers, and analysts
  • Dedicated to using logic and data to construct problem statement including problem description and improvement measures while incorporating metrics to show success and support your decisions and recommendations in creating a viable product roadmaps

Responsibilities:
  • Provide product demos and presentations to clients
  • Monitor and proactively communicate product health through metrics
  • Help pitch new opportunities with persuasive problem-driven product messaging and positioning
  • Build compelling content, messaging and enablement assets that help our audience understand and adopt product functionality
  • Handle the distribution and centralization of assets used to educate and evangelize our products’ functionalities across core-partners and users
  • Support new efforts and promote mutually successful user engagements and expansion of product capabilities
  • Participate in requirements gathering workshops with business partners and product
  • Work with team members to define potential solutions
  • cross-functionally with project management, business analysts, design, user experience and delivery
  • Work closely with internal partners (Operations, R&D, Customer Service Innovation) to align business targets and drive key results
  • Ability to manage product vision, personas (user roles, needs, wants and goals), user story mapping, backlog, value proposition/lean canvas, roadmap, iterative releases, product acceptance criteria, and ensuring associated business benefit value
  • Be the day-to-day representative of the business and product management to engineering and development teams within a Scrum framework - managing the detailed planning and delivery of features matched to market & customer requirements
  • Assist in creating a product roadmap that includes milestones and prioritized deliverables which includes planning for compliance with standard, remediation of technical debt, and to expose opportunities for application rationalization
  • Employ a data-driven approach to contribute and prioritize market data, customer insights and actionable research to improve designs, prioritize features, and guide the roadmap to discover areas for product improvements to fuel user growth
  • A bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, or Business with a technical background
  • 2+ years’ experience in a Product Owner, Product Manager or a similar technology or marketing role
  • 2+ years’ experience working with enterprise cloud services or software

Note: This is not necessarily an all-inclusive list of job-related responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements, or working conditions. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, SPECTRAFORCE and the assigned client reserve the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed as assigned.

Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, and hospital indemnity insurances. Additional benefits SPECTRAFORCE offers to the eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE offers unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.

Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at NAhr@spectraforce.com if you require a reasonable accommodation.For the full list of our open positions, please check www.spectraforce.com

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