Product Manager – Technical Jobs

POSITION TITLE: Product Manager – Technical

LOCATION: Remote – PST Preferred
DURATION: 18-months
SALARY/PAY RANGE: $40-$50/hour Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.
Project Description
Averro is currently seeking a Product Manager for a contract role within Customer Support & Technology Engineering. This role also requires excellent communication and collaboration skills with an ability to adapt to rapidly changing conditions and priorities. You will be working with people from many different teams from across the company and backgrounds requiring an open mindset and strong negotiation skills. You must be able to identify and partner with other groups to achieve joint or complementary goals. You will create, maintain, and track project-level information and be responsible for status updates, tracking action items and deliverables, creating timelines and initiative milestones, and strive for cross-team alignment toward them. You will support product management with actions leading to clarity, and decisions across teams, as well as help establish and implement best practices for high-quality execution and product delivery. A proven track record of successfully managing enterprise-wide projects and shipping high-quality products and delivering on time providing measurable impact to be successful in this role.
Roles & Responsibilities

• At times may need to document business requirements and/or help translate them into product requirements, do traceability between business, product, and tech specs, and ensure gaps and issues are tracked for new features or project creation.
• Identify, evaluate, and implement knowledge management tools and sites (Teams, SharePoint, etc.) to ensure effective cultivating, maintaining, and sharing of team knowledge.
• Support and execute rhythm of the business activities that support cross-product org alignment; includes overall cadence, preparation of materials and presents, developing status updates and scorecards and talk track for presenters; follow up with post-meeting or offsite/event with follow-up notes, actions and support the implementation of agreed-upon goals.
• Manage, track, and drive alignment with partner teams on critical project deliverables.
• Additional projects as needed.
• Support planning across multiple product organizations, including, but not limited to both semester and long-term aspects, ensuring roadmaps and timelines are aligned across multiple product groups and across multiple work streams.
• Build, develop, and maintain highly collaborative and effective working relationships with key stakeholders to facilitate proactive planning and flawless execution against stakeholders’ business objectives and product team goals.
• Establish or enhance project processes, routines, and reporting to be well managed.
• Own acceptance and criteria needed to build out and/or create Dashboards and Reports.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Proficient with Microsoft PPT, Teams, Planner, and Visio.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to convey highly complex and technical topics into easy-to-understand points by non-technical stakeholders or SLT; ability to communicate with diverse groups at many levels of the organization.
• Proactiveness and a strong positive outlook and approach to change management.
• Demonstrated experience, success, and/or contributions in delivering cross-functional programs, including accountability, and driving results both as an individual and within a team.
• Be able to work under pressure and deadlines, with the ability to manage complexity while driving clarity.
• 2+ years’ experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• Ability to work in a flexible, fast-paced environment.
• Bachelor's Degree and 2-4 years’ experience in product management or equivalent.
• Experience with developing and implementing organizational frameworks, standards, and processes.

PREFERRED SKILLS:

• Proactive - good at following up without being asked.
• Ability to influence others inside and outside of the direct team.
• Lean Six Sigma, PMP, Product Owner Certifications.
• Design skills: creating beautiful layouts, presentations, diagrams, newsletters, etc.

WHY AVERRO?
Averro is a Veteran-Owned organization dedicated to delivering innovative technology services, business consulting, and talent solutions that propel businesses and careers forward. We live by our ethos: Family First | Be Uncommon | Culture Wins. These values show in our commitment to client satisfaction, timely support, and unmatched consultant care. Most of all, it shows in our commitment to each other. Our Aim – Your Ascent. See More: bit.ly/aimaverro
Averro is an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal obligations. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.
Benefits Offered
All positions qualify for group medical insurance, 401K retirement savings, sick leave, and our employee assistance program. We have three benefit package options available geared towards employee needs and desires. Depending on your selection Averro provides PTO, 8 paid holidays per year, group medical/dental/vision insurance along with optional pet and legal insurance.