As a Senior Product Associate in Rewards product team, you will be responsible for making our rewards products better, smarter and more personalized by leveraging a deep understanding of customer needs, data intelligence, and how to create excellence at scale while maximizing business value. You will drive the planning, sequencing and implementation of these initiatives to drive end-state transformation based on value, impact and time to market. You will also manage a cross-functional team of stakeholders to develop an implementation plan, analyze potential risks/benefits, work with your business partners to determine the best solutions, and drive your project through completion. If you enjoy creative problem solving, are highly analytical and curious about how things work, and are skilled at building momentum and structure around meaningful work, this is the role for you.
Job Responsibilities:
- Partner with our tech teams within their sprint cycles to be sure all epics and stories are clearly defined with specific acceptance criteria and delivered on time. Help drive the completion of business epics and the removal of blockers
- Be responsible for end-to-end project delivery following the Project Life Cycle. Responsible for development of project plans, metrics, risk/issues, decision logs, and other project artifacts. Provide support on weekly reporting and program update efforts across a variety of forums
- Partner with key business and technology partners to analyze business/operational processes, identify business and operational requirements, oversee technology build, manage user testing, and coordinate solution implementation. You will be managing one or more fast-paced, complex, cross-functional projects that have significant impact on the business with C-level visibility.
- Lead your stakeholders and cross functional teams to achieve the best business value possible. Use collaboration storytelling to communicate and drive cross-functional alignment for your work
- Develop and manage integrated plans, working effectively at all levels and providing progress communications to stakeholders on a regular basis
- Communicate with executive level leadership product needs, progress and business challenges.
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills:
- 3+ years of product, program management or relevant experience as well as record of individual technical achievement. Proven track record of delivery in fast paced environments.
- Ability to make recommendations and progress in the face of ambiguous and at times overlapping priorities, and clearly communicate those ideas to all levels within the organization. Ability to communicate openly, be transparent, be open and receptive to diverse ideas from different stakeholders, with the ability to influence and motivate.
- Flexibility to influence and partner across a large, highly matrixed organization and drive change through promoting a culture of collaboration across organizational boundaries
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills: able to present facts, thoughts and ideas in a clear, concise and convincing manner to cross-functional partners up and down the chain.
- Commitment and self-motivation suitable to a start-up team
- Experience with Microsoft suite (PowerPoint, Excel, SharePoint) JIRA, Confluence Tools.
- Bachelor’s degree required
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills:
- Experience with agile product development techniques and continuous integration philosophies and practices for speed to market is a plus