Product Manager Jobs

This position is eligible for remote work at the present time. The arrangement may be delayed for training or other job acclimation purposes and remains subject to change.

This position may be located in Urbandale, IA, Moline, IL, Austin, TX or Chicago, IL per the hiring manager's discretion. This may be dependent on the successful candidate's background, experience, and proficiency.

Your Responsibilities

As a Product Manager for John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group located in Urbandale, IA, Moline or Chicago, IL or Austin, TX, you will:

• Monitor and manage work over multiple projects to provide a single view of department work, roadmaps, progress, challenges, and opportunities.
• Work closely with the Technical Teams and Product Managers to manage Intelligent Solutions Group (ISG) data product roadmaps, Sprint work, and clarify expected outcomes, and prioritize components of work.
• Create Epics/Stories across multiple workstreams to ensure the team’s “definition of done” is well defined and manage expectations by understanding when initiatives are at risk and proactively communicating with stakeholders.
• Project development schedules, formal status reporting, communications planning and management using various tools to support agile methodologies.

VISA Sponsorship is NOT Available for this position

What Skills You Need

• Experience maintaining all relevant backlogs and sprints across multiple workstreams.
• 2 or more years of experience with Lean, Agile and flow methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.) and the software to manage the workloads (Jira, asana, Smartsheet etc.).
• Experience presenting and collaborating across multiple levels of leadership and business areas. Ability to concisely articulate solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders and ultimately drive results.
• Experience developing release plans and ensure product backlogs are well-groomed, prioritized, and visible to all stakeholders.
• Experience with Agile values, principles, processes including Organizing and facilitating SCRUM ceremonies.
• 2 or more years of experience in a product strategy role or requirements intake role.
• 2 or more years of experience in developing technical roadmaps, story outlines, writing user stories, refining product backlogs.
• Technology background with the communication skills to articulate technical matters to a broader audience, written and verbal.

What Makes You Stand Out

• Familiarity with data as a product and data products.
• Familiarity with cloud data platforms like Databricks and Snowflake and BI platforms like Tableau and Power BI.
• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent certification(s).
• Understanding of data management best practices.
• Experience with digital transformation projects.
• Experience with A/B testing and product-led growth principles.
• Ability to build monitoring reports in JIRA across multiple projects and workstreams.

Education

Ideally, you will have a degree or equivalent related work experience in the following:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Intelligence, Information Technology Management or a similar field

What You'll Get

At John Deere, you are empowered to create a career that will take you to where you want to go while working in an inclusive team environment. Here, you'll enjoy the freedom to explore new projects, the support to think outside the box and the advanced tools and technology that foster innovation and achievement. Additionally, we offer a comprehensive reward package to help you get started on your new career path, including:

• Savings & Retirement benefits (401K and Defined Benefit Pension)
• Adoption assistance
• Fitness subsidies and on-site gyms at specific Deere locations
• Flexible work arrangements
• Tuition assistance
• Healthcare benefits with a generous company contribution in the Health Savings Account
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Employee Purchase Plan & numerous discount programs for personal use
• Charitable contribution match
• Highly competitive base pay and performance bonuses

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The information contained herein is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and qualifications required of individuals performing the job. The qualifications detailed in this job description are not considered the minimum requirements necessary to perform the job, but rather as guidelines.