Product Manager Jobs

Company
ClassWallet is the first virtual wallet created for schools. ClassWallet empowers teachers to use free, consumer-grade technology to replace a $23B system that relies on cash, checks, and interoffice envelopes. Through ClassWallet, administration, parents, and vendors connect with teachers for peer-to-peer funding and purchasing for anything from supplies to technology to field trips. Because the entire process is digital, everything is cashless, trackable, and transparent. More than 40 of the top education vendors accept ClassWallet for payment.
ClassWallet (www.clsasswallet.com) is a rapidly growing financial technology company currently selling into the K12 education market. We are revolutionizing how funds and procurement are managed for school systems amidst growing trends to decentralize purchasing.
We are Techstars graduate, highly innovative, a ground-breaking company with a leadership team uniquely qualified to succeed. Founder and CEO Jamie Rosenberg built AdoptAClassroom.org, the first crowdfunding site on the Internet, and distributed donations to classrooms in 30% of schools in America. Co-Found and President Neil Steinhardt is the former Managing Director of the US Division of Skrill, the second-largest digital wallet company in the world, and has 20 years of financial technology and product experience.
Position:
Reporting to the Director of Product Development, the Production Owner oversees the development of ClassWallet products and services from start to finish. They ensure that stakeholders' voices and needs are heard and managed, in order to provide successful product delivery. The Production Owner’s main duties include determining the overall vision, direction, and features of their respective products; delivering the maximal amount of value while balancing the relative priorities of backlogged items. The Product Owner will work closely with the business team, clients, quality team members, and the product engineering team to make sure that our resources will be utilized efficiently and effectively to maximize throughput.
Responsibilities:
To learn and become an expert in all things ClassWallet. The successful candidate needs to develop a deep understanding of the ClassWallet product suites and markets. ClassWallet’s constituents are unique and the voices of our customers, partners, and internal users all need to be managed and represented in product design. To be successful in this role, the candidate needs to have:

• Be able to write epics and detailed user stories for the engineering, QA, and design teams to fully understand the scope of functionality and business drivers, so they can estimate and deliver with quality;
• The breakdown features into stories together with the scrum master and engineering lead;
• Prioritize product defects and bugs, and communicate with stakeholders;
• Effectively communicate and collaborate with all groups in the organization over the entire product development lifecycle from requirements gathering to release to rollout training;
• Create release notes and training material/videos;
• Provide regular guidance on product requirements and business priorities with daily stand-ups, grooming, and planning sessions;
• Prioritize features and define requirements for successful delivery;
• Have the ability to take ownership and work autonomously in a high-speed environment.
• Advocate for the customer on the Scrum team, provide vision and direction for the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project;
• Create wireframes and work with product design specifications.
• Experience with owning a product line, product planning, and product delivery;
• Document use cases, requirements, and stories focused on model-driven design architecture
• Monitor performance of your product(s) and measure impact of product enhancements; communicate impact clearly across the organization and use to drive prioritization;

Requirements
Qualifications:

• Knowledge of payment systems and rails (check, ACH, credit card, etc.) is a plus.
• The ability to write clear, concise internal product specifications, external communications, and training materials
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple products and projects simultaneously across multiple areas of the business. Passionate about building meaningful, intuitive products
• Commitment to the continuous development of product expertise and technical knowledge
• Bachelors in Computer Science, Business or commensurate work experience
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, Lucid Chart
• The ability to read basic API documentation is a plus
• CPO and CSM certification or equivalent preferred
• Dynamic problem-solving skills and a love for figuring out solutions
• Experience with financial processes is a plus
• 1-3 years of experience with full product life cycle product management