Overview

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a health and wellness organization located in Pittsburgh and operates health insurance plans in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and West Virginia.

Job Title: Product Manager

Location: Pittsburgh PA

Duration: 3 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Remote

Job Description:

Responsibilities

• Contributes to streamlining the execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the features or components for the team.
• Manages, understands and supports prioritized Portfolio and Value Stream work by collaborating with stakeholders such as: Solution Architect, Business Architect, Product Manager and others to breakdown features into user stories.
• Act as a bridge to connect the product and development teams by translating the product manager's vision into business and functional requirements for the teams. This will allow the teams to work with a heavy focus on user outcomes.
• Key player in solution estimation.
• Maintain a well groomed and prioritized backlog sufficient to support optimal team allocation for multiple (3+) Sprints including acceptance of stories and enforcing definition of ready and definition of done (backlog health).
• Recommend resolution paths to domain leadership when/if backlog health becomes insufficient.
• Responsible for the acceptance of stories as “Done” from the team, ensuring that the stories have been developed, tested, and meet the defined acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate as needed with stakeholders (e.g. Product Management, business leads, etc.) in the creation, maintenance, and communication of the product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
• Represent the product in team or minor level governance meetings.
• Track and provide status to leadership.
• Perform work necessary with product managers to learn about what problems they are aiming to solve with the product.
• Ability to work with external vendors and align the roadmaps - from delivery execution and scope standpoint.
• Servant-Leader as part of a cross functional team or teams.
• Ability to work with agile program and team metrics.
• Effectively communicate product release contents and expected product capabilities/behavior to stakeholders.
• Contributes to the generation of a high-level release plan with the team.
• Continually re-prioritizes team's tasks based upon new information, discussions with stakeholders, and probability to drive business outcomes.
• Develop and maintain product delivery roadmap.
• Writing clearly defined user stories for new product features, issues and future enhancements.
• Working with the team to define and implement improvement stories that will increase the quality of the program.
• Review, update and sign off test scripts for both in-track and regression testing, ensuring full coverage of the user stories.

Required Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Healthcare Discipline, Information Management OR closely related field.
• 3+ years of Product Ownership, Strategic Consulting or Design Thinking OR in Product Development & Management, Project/Program Management.
• 3+ years working with external clients/ foster positive relationships and outcomes.

Preferred Experience

• Agile certification from a known vendor (Scrum.org, SAFe, Scrum Alliance, etc.).
• Able to problem solve in conjunction with distilling research and applying to reach a relevant and beneficial solution.

Soft/Technical Skills

• Communication Skills, Ability to work in matrixed organization.
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications.
• Ability to "size" work for estimation / planning.
• Ability to serve as product owner for multiple teams / products.
• Ability to prioritize across stories / resources / teams / products.
• Agile methodology.

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.