Senior Software Product Manager

Simpson Strong-Tie•Pleasanton, CA

1d•$93,400 - $126,100•Remote

About The Position

The Senior Software Product Manager fills the product owner role in an Agile product development environment and will gather feature requests, schedule releases and coordinate sprints. To be successful in this role, the Senior Software Product Manager will be a product expert and need to be able to identify user needs and work with cross-functional teams while crafting the product vision.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in a related field, preferably in business, IT, computer science, project management or another technology-focused field.
5+ years of experience delivering software products in Agile (Scrum/Kanban) or similar product development environments, including AI-enabled solutions.
Action Oriented: Ability to willingly take practical action to deal with a problem or situation in a timely manner.
Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
Continuous Learning: Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning opportunities.
Customer Focus: Ability to cultivate relationships that secure commitment and trust with external and internal customer needs.
Decision Quality: Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
Drives Results: Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
Ensures Accountability: Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
Instills Trust: Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
Influences: Using compelling arguments to gain the support and commitment of others.
Situational Adaptability: Adapting approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations.

Responsibilities

Partner with key stakeholders and business leaders to understand their business strategy, gather detailed product requirements, and develop meaningful value-add product enhancements (stories) to drive the business forward.
Plan and prioritize the product backlog on a regular basis to ensure work focuses on items with maximum value, ensuring there are always an adequate number of stories in the product backlog that meet the definition of Ready prior to planning meetings with development teams.
Hold regular meetings including but not limited to the following. Product Backlog Refinement meetings with the development team prior to sprint planning to improve clarity of requirements of user stories. Sprint Planning meetings with the development team to plan sprint workload, including the collaboration of development tasks and tests. Sprint Review meetings to share sprint goals and review completed work with product stakeholders.
Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of release and sprint goals.
Work with development team and technical writing team to write and manage release notes of completed features.
Coach and mentor junior employees to provide best in class solutions for the product being created to best align their contribution towards the products impact on the overall organizational success by using effective leadership techniques, including establishing expectations and goals, providing recognition and feedback, and addressing performance problems.
Empower employees to take responsibility for their career and performance.
Delegate responsibility and expect accountability and regular feedback.
Foster a spirit of teamwork and unity among department members and the organization.
Work closely with Product Management to understand product strategy and vision enabling you to provide the agile development team with clear vision, direction and understanding of the product backlog.