Product Manager Jobs

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What You Will Be Working On

We are looking for a Product Manager to be the decision maker and owner of our in-flight Next Gen Sales Architecture for the Vivint Technology (VT) Core Engineering team. This newly formed software engineering team’s primary responsibility is to implement core services and applications and drive their reusability across all software development teams within VT. This is a critical role on the technology team that will collaborate with UX, architecture, engineering, and product leaders in the modernization of the technology stack and drive forward our business enablement and growth strategy.

Essential Responsibilities

• Drive the Vivint Technology core engineering strategy across all software engineering teams within VT
• Coordinate and prioritize requests from other engineering teams
• Communicate status updates to stakeholders
• Work with Program and/or Project Managers to break down requirements into deliverable tasks
• Track progress, risks, and schedule across projects
• Collaborate with UX team on experience design for core applications and UI components
• Work with architecture team on vetting and prototyping potential solutions

Required Skills

• Ability to craft clear, compelling recommendations and requirements supported by strong analysis and business logic, and articulate them to the organization to gain support
• Interest in learning to work with SREs on priority of deployment and production environment issues
• Serve as a "translation layer" between business requirements and the technical details of backlog items
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
• Strong meeting facilitation, communication, and presentation skills
• Ability to collaborate with other Product Managers to improve standards and reusability across systems
• Adept at problem solving and driving the team toward solutions
• Ability to communicate high level software architecture concepts to stakeholders
• Strong negotiation and conflict-resolution skills
• Must possess critical thinking, problem solving, and decision-making skills

Required Experience

• Experience using Smartsheet, Jira, Microsoft Office Suite, or other project management software
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle and agile development methodologies
• 3+ years of software product management experience or in a related field (i.e. program manager, engineering manager, etc.)

Learn about the Vivint Culture and why it’s a great place to grow your career!

Here are some highlighted perks you should ask us about:

• Paid holidays and flexible paid time away
• 401(k) + Employer Match
• Employee/Friends/Family Discounts
• Employee Resource Groups
• Medical/dental/vision/life coverage & 24/7 Medical Hotline
• Onsite health clinic, gym, gaming tables
• Free daily lunch and drinks on site

Working Conditions

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Safety

Vivint enforces a safety culture whereby all employees have the responsibility for continuously developing and maintaining a safe working environment. Each new employee is responsible for completing all training requirements. Additionally, the employee must accept they have responsibility for maintaining the safety of themselves, their co-workers, and the public. Employees must adhere to all written and verbal instructions, promptly report and correct all hazards or unsafe conditions, question non-standard operations or unmitigated hazards, and provide feedback to management on all safety issues.

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