Staff Software Product Manager - Communications Engineering
About The Position
Join WGU at a transformational moment as we build a new communications engineering capability that will redefine how students engage with the university. In this high-impact role, you will lead product strategy for communication orchestration across multiple channels, bringing clarity, governance, and innovation to a fragmented ecosystem. You will operate at the intersection of product, architecture, and engineering to shape scalable, user-centered solutions that directly improve the student experience. This is a greenfield opportunity with enterprise-wide visibility. You will partner across teams to unify communication platforms, reduce noise, and introduce thoughtful, data-driven engagement powered by modern architecture and conversational AI.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree
- 8 years of experience as a Software Product Manager or Product Owner in highly technical environments
- Minimum 3 years of experience in communications engineering and/or omnichannel communication platforms
- Strong experience building or managing omnichannel communication solutions across channels such as SMS, email, push, or voice
- Demonstrated experience with conversational AI, including building or owning chatbot or AI-driven messaging products
- Deep understanding of software architecture principles including service-oriented architecture and cloud-based systems
- Proven ability to define success metrics, execute against them, and adjust based on data-driven insights
Nice To Haves
- Experience working in SaaS companies that build communication platforms for enterprise customers such as Braze, Airship, Salesforce, or Oracle
- Familiarity with customer identity, consent management, and multi-system data orchestration
- Experience with platforms like NICE Systems or similar conversational AI leaders
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the product vision and roadmap for communication orchestration across channels including SMS, email, push notifications, portal experiences, and voice
- Partner with engineering, architecture, and business stakeholders to design scalable, secure, and reliable communication platforms
- Lead the strategy and evolution of conversational AI capabilities, including chatbot experiences and AI-driven engagement solutions
- Build business cases, define success metrics, and measure the impact of product initiatives to continuously improve outcomes
- Balance competing priorities and make high-stakes trade-offs to align customer needs with business objectives
- Serve as a cross-functional leader who influences without authority and aligns stakeholders across complex systems and dependencies
- Mentor other product managers and contribute to strengthening product practices across the organization
Benefits
- bonuses
- medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare
- health savings account and flexible spending account
- basic and voluntary life insurance
- disability coverage
- accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages
- legal and identity theft coverage
- retirement savings plan
- wellbeing program
- discounted WGU tuition
- flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual
- flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual
- 11 paid holidays
- other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
