Xped - Product Manager

Product Manager

Job Description:

Duties And Responsibilities:

1. We are looking for a product leader who deeply understands what it takes to craft a great product management organization in the areas of Product Leadership, People Management, and Product Performance & Execution.

2. This role is perfect for a product manager who has an ownership mentality for driving impact, pursues data-informed insights, focuses on customer empathy and product craft, and loves to learn and execute. To be successful in this role, you need to have a bias for action, and be comfortable guiding decision-making based on a combination of hard data and incomplete or ambiguous information. You understand how to balance long-term bets with quick wins.

3. Support development of product strategy and roadmaps working in conjunction with Senior Managers and Directors of Product and product team.

4. Build hypotheses and MVP scope to meet product goals and KPIs.

5. Analyze product and business data to create data-driven insights and drive iterative development.

6. Create a positive team member experience.

7. Be responsible for direct interaction with business stakeholders, including, but not limited to, eliciting comprehensive business requirements, use cases, and recommending appropriate solutions.

8. Acts as a product subject matter expert for sales and sales support.

9. Create user stories, requirements and functional specifications for development.

10. Collaborate with User experience team to design user interface and user flows.

11. Support Customer Operations and client training as needed.

12. Work with development team to estimate work and execute against plan.

13. Work with Development, QA, and Production Support teams to communicate, verify, and test the desired functionality changes.

14. The Product Manager will take part in defining a product platform which brings together a collection of focused, sophisticated, data-heavy software applications backed by expert tax professionals. The platform will be used by a spectrum of businesses, from SMBs to large multinationals, across a variety of market segments, and is comprised of a portfolio of products, which will need to be reconciled with the currently available suite of Ryan software products.

Education And Experience:

1. Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Finance, Computer Science or a related field.

2. Anticipates and proactively delivers expected results for team members.

3. Effectively solves problems.

4. Demonstrates initiative and provides complete follow-through on areas of responsibility.

5. Advanced written, visual and verbal communication skills.

6. Superior attention to detail.

7. Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness.

8. Demonstrates willingness to be flexible and adaptable to changing priorities.

9. Thrives working both independently and in a team-based environment.

10. Strong multitasking and organizational skills.