Product Manager | Onsite - Delaware

Photon•Wilmington, DE

6d•$60,000 - $210,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Product Manager will be responsible for developing and maintaining technical capability roadmaps, partnering with architects and engineering leaders, and owning and prioritizing the program/ART backlog to maximize business value. This role serves as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, technology teams, Product Owners, architects, risk partners, and leadership. The Product Manager will define feature scope, business outcomes, benefit hypotheses, success measures, and acceptance criteria, ensuring features are well-defined and understood before delivery. They will facilitate feature refinement, drive feature readiness by identifying and addressing requirements, dependencies, impacts, assumptions, and risks, and manage the feature lifecycle from intake to closure. The role involves coordinating delivery across multiple product teams, platforms, vendors, and technology organizations, driving resolution of cross-team dependencies and impediments, and collaborating with Product Owners and engineering teams during backlog decomposition and implementation. Additionally, the Product Manager will ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, technical strategy, and design decisions, facilitate prioritization, and make tradeoff decisions balancing customer value, risk, cost, capacity, and strategic objectives. They will ensure technical solutions meet enterprise architecture standards, security requirements, resiliency expectations, and operational support models, proactively identify and mitigate technical risks, and monitor delivery progress. The role also includes ensuring all necessary reviews, approvals, testing, training, and production readiness activities are completed, and that technical capabilities are operationally ready and compliant before release. Driving release readiness, coordinating approvals for production deployment, and participating in feature demonstrations and validation are key. The Product Manager will define and track success metrics, adoption measures, and value realization outcomes, analyze post-release results to inform future investments, and establish transparent communication with stakeholders and leadership. Influencing stakeholders, facilitating decision-making, and building alignment are crucial. Finally, the role drives continuous improvement through lessons learned and process enhancements.

Requirements

Technical capability roadmaps
Enterprise technology strategy
Business objectives
Technical approaches
Scalability considerations
Integration requirements
Implementation tradeoffs
Program/ART backlog (features)
Business value
Strategic outcomes
Business stakeholders
Technology teams
Product Owners
Architects
Risk partners
Leadership
Feature scope
Business outcomes
Benefit hypotheses
Success measures
Acceptance criteria
Feature refinement activities
Stakeholder feedback
Technical feedback
Architectural feedback
Operational feedback
Requirements
Dependencies
Impacts
Assumptions
Risks
Feature lifecycle management
Feature status
Governance within ADO
Product teams
Platforms
Vendors
Technology organizations
Cross-team dependencies
Sequencing concerns
Resource constraints
Backlog decomposition
Feature implementation
Enterprise architecture
Technical strategy
Design decisions
Effort scoring
Feature ranking
Prioritization decisions
Customer value
Risk
Cost
Capacity
Strategic objectives
Enterprise architecture standards
Security requirements
Resiliency expectations
Operational support models
Technical risks
Mitigation strategies
Scope
Timeline
Quality
Outcomes
Delivery progress
Feature health
Escalated issues
Impediments
Value delivery
Risk reviews
Approvals
Testing
Education
Training
Production readiness activities
Operationally ready
Supportable
Compliant
Production release
Release readiness
Production deployment
Feature demonstrations
Validation activities
Business intent
Success metrics
Adoption measures
Value realization outcomes
Post-release results
Customer feedback
Future investment
Roadmap
Prioritization decisions
Transparent communication
Status
Risks
Dependencies
Scope decisions
Outcomes
Stakeholders
Decision-making
Alignment
Competing priorities
Continuous improvement
Lessons learned
Process enhancements
Product delivery practices

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain technical capability roadmaps aligned to enterprise technology strategy and business objectives.
Partner with architects and engineering leaders to evaluate technical approaches, scalability considerations, integration requirements, and implementation tradeoffs.
Own and prioritize the program/ART backlog (features) to maximize business value and strategic outcomes.
Serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, technology teams, Product Owners, architects, risk partners, and leadership.
Define feature scope, business outcomes, benefit hypotheses, success measures, and acceptance criteria.
Ensure features are sufficiently defined, understood, and documented before entering delivery.
Facilitate feature refinement activities and incorporate stakeholder, technical, architectural, and operational feedback.
Drive feature readiness by ensuring requirements, dependencies, impacts, assumptions, and risks are identified and addressed.
Own feature lifecycle management from intake through closure, maintaining accurate feature status and governance within ADO.
Coordinate delivery across multiple product teams, platforms, vendors, and technology organizations.
Drive resolution of cross-team dependencies, sequencing concerns, and resource constraints impacting delivery.
Partner with Product Owners and engineering teams during backlog decomposition and feature implementation.
Collaborate with architects and technical leaders to ensure alignment to enterprise architecture, technical strategy, and design decisions.
Facilitate effort scoring, feature ranking, and prioritization decisions across competing demand.
Make prioritization and tradeoff decisions balancing customer value, risk, cost, capacity, and strategic objectives.
Ensure technical solutions align with enterprise architecture standards, security requirements, resiliency expectations, and operational support models.
Proactively identify technical risks and develop mitigation strategies to minimize impacts to scope, timeline, quality, and outcomes.
Monitor delivery progress and feature health, resolving escalated issues and removing impediments impacting value delivery.
Ensure required risk reviews, approvals, testing, education, training, and production readiness activities are completed.
Ensure technical capabilities are operationally ready, supportable, and compliant before production release.
Drive release readiness and coordinate approvals necessary for production deployment.
Participate in feature demonstrations and validation activities to ensure delivered solutions meet business intent and acceptance criteria.
Define and track success metrics, adoption measures, and value realization outcomes.
Analyze post-release results and customer feedback to inform future investment, roadmap, and prioritization decisions.
Establish transparent communication with stakeholders and leadership regarding status, risks, dependencies, scope decisions, and outcomes.
Influence stakeholders, facilitate decision-making, and build alignment across competing priorities.
Drive continuous improvement through lessons learned, process enhancements, and optimization of product delivery practices.