As a Senior Product Associate in the Global Employee Help Product team, you will leverage your expertise in product development and optimization to make a significant impact. You will be supported by user research and customer feedback to fuel the creation of innovative products and continuously improve existing offerings. Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and play a crucial role in shaping the future of our products and ongoing success.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partner with the Product Manager to identify new product opportunities that reflect the needs of our customers and the market through user research and discovery.
- Consider and plan for upstream and downstream implications of new product features on the overall product experience.
- Support 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.
- Analyze, track, and evaluate product metrics including work to time, cost, and quality targets across the product development life cycle.
- Write the requirements, epics, and user stories to support product development.
- Serve as a single point of ownership for an experience or workflow, leading the product development lifecycle from discovery and design through implementation – coordinating and delivering new epics, features, and writing requirements.
- Utilize in-depth knowledge of the ServiceNow platform and collaborate with architects to optimize Employee Help solutions, staying abreast of new features and best practices; drive product innovation by exploring new ideas and opportunities to enhance the base product and meet evolving customer needs.
- Support a strong risk, controls & conduct framework and a “security-by-design” product mindset.
- Partner with area and functional product owners, servicing leads, content teams, and business representatives across the Employee Help Product domains to inform and deliver expected business outcomes.
- Define and track metrics (OKRs) to measure product success.
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
- Proven 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.
- Cross-functional partnership and collaboration skills – Comfort building and maintaining strong relationships with a broad set of product and functional partners.
- Stakeholder management - Comfort with managing stakeholder relationships while standing up for product integrity and user experience.
- Organizational and management skills – Strong attention-to-detail, independent, self-motivated with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment. Strong decision-making skills.
- Customer obsessed – develops deep data-informed and research-based empathy and understanding of employee needs, and advocates for them.
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
- Experience with ServiceNow, including deep familiarity with its modules, capabilities, and best practices.
- Change Management Skills: Strong skills in managing change and driving adoption of new processes and technologies within large organizations.
- Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement: Proven ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and engage with senior stakeholders to align request management strategies with business objectives.