Agile Product /Project Manager

Olberding Brand Family•Chicago, IL

About The Position

Olberding Brand Family is seeking an Agile Product / Project Manager to lead the planning, delivery, and adoption of enterprise applications, integrations, and digital workflow improvements. This hands-on role combines product management, project delivery, and business process analysis. The manager will work with business stakeholders, technical teams, and external partners to identify needs, establish priorities, translate requirements into actionable backlogs, and deliver measurable business outcomes. Success requires facilitating meaningful participation and decisions, bringing structure to ambiguity, and balancing long-term product direction with practical management of scope, schedules, dependencies, and risk. The role initially is an hourly contractor position, with the intent to transition to a full-time regular employee after 3–6 months. The salary range for the role as a regular employee is $110,000–$130,000.

Requirements

Five or more years of relevant experience in product management, project management, product ownership, or Agile delivery.
Demonstrated experience delivering enterprise applications, SaaS platforms, digital products, or business process improvements.
Experience managing work from discovery and requirements through delivery, adoption, and ongoing improvement.
Strong facilitation skills, including leading workshops, engaging stakeholders with different levels of technical knowledge, and driving clear decisions.
Practical knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, and the software development lifecycle, with judgment to adapt delivery methods to the work.
Experience creating product roadmaps, managing backlogs, and writing user stories with testable acceptance criteria.
Ability to manage schedules, scope, dependencies, risks, and competing priorities across multiple teams.
Experience using Jira, Azure DevOps, or comparable work management tools, along with collaborative documentation platforms.
Sufficient technical understanding to work effectively with engineers on APIs, integrations, data flows, and application dependencies.
Strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills, including the ability to explain tradeoffs and escalate concerns constructively.
Demonstrated ownership, follow-through, and ability to influence outcomes without direct reporting authority.
Relevant education, professional training, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting ERP, CRM, workflow management, or other commercial enterprise platform implementations.
Experience coordinating third-party software vendors, consultants, and implementation partners.
Background in business process analysis, user research, user experience, or digital adoption.
Experience defining success measures and using dashboards, user feedback, and operational data to evaluate results.
Experience helping organizations establish product ownership and ongoing improvement practices.
Certified ScrumMaster, Certified Scrum Product Owner, PMP, PMI-ACP, or a comparable credential.
Familiarity with creative services, graphics, packaging, prepress, or production operations.

Responsibilities

Partner with business and technology leaders to define business problems, desired outcomes, product direction, and delivery priorities.
Lead discovery sessions, stakeholder interviews, and process workshops to understand current workflows and identify opportunities for improvement.
Facilitate discussions among business users, subject-matter experts, technical teams, and external providers to elicit requirements and resolve competing priorities.
Develop and maintain product roadmaps, prioritized backlogs, release plans, and project schedules tied to business objectives.
Translate business needs into requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and process documentation.
Lead appropriate Agile ceremonies, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily coordination, reviews, and retrospectives.
Manage scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, and issues across concurrent initiatives using Agile, traditional, or hybrid delivery approaches as appropriate.
Coordinate delivery across application configuration, software development, integrations, testing, and deployment.
Hold internal teams and implementation partners accountable for commitments, deliverable quality, and timely issue resolution.
Challenge unnecessary customization and scope expansion, helping stakeholders evaluate standard platform capabilities and business value.
Coordinate user acceptance testing, business readiness, training, and release communications to support adoption.
Gather user feedback and analyze adoption, workflow performance, and business results to guide ongoing improvements.
Report on progress, delivery forecasts, risks, and decisions requiring leadership attention.
Coach teams and stakeholders in practical Agile methods, shared ownership, and continual improvement.