Job responsibilities
- Partners with the Product Manager to identify new product opportunities that reflect the needs of our customers and the market through user research and discovery
- Considers and plans for upstream and downstream implications of new product features on the overall product experience
- Supports the collection of user research, journey mapping, and market analysis to inform the strategic product roadmap and provide insight on potential product features that provide value to customers
- Analyzes, tracks, and evaluates product metrics including work to time, cost, and quality targets across the product development life cycle
- Writes the requirements, epics, and user stories to support product development
- Engage team members to ensure timelines and requirements to drive conversations and deliverables that impact the Area Product
- Define and present strategy for features, write epics, user stories, testing conditions/ scripts, validation criteria and acceptance criteria.
- Participate in all agile events of the product group as a team member; generate pertinent process maps/flows; and conduct lessons learned as necessary
- Complete all deliverables according to aligned sprints and/or schedules. Communicate and escalate risks, blockers, and impacts that could delay initiatives
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- 3+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in product management or a relevant domain area
- Proficient knowledge of the product development life cycle
- Experience in product life cycle activities including discovery and requirements definition
- Developing knowledge of data analytics and data literacy
- Proven communication skills with responsibility for Client, Technical, and Operational partners
- Logical thinking and applied skills with problem solving and user research
- Proficient in Microsoft Suites and like tools
- Analytical skills applied during requirements gathering and development
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Working knowledge of writing epics and user stories with documented acceptance criteria
- Knowledge with Jira and Jira align
Must be able to adhere to a hybrid work schedule with 3 days in office and 2 days work from home in Columbus, OH. Potentialafter hours and weekend assignment to connect with other colleagues and resources in support of implementations, production events, or validation post production.