[Remote] Senior Product Manager (Remote from reputed company in CO)

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. The reputed company is seeking a Senior Product Manager to help build the reputed company of reputed company services. This role involves managing the product backlog, prioritizing tasks based on user research and metrics, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure the successful delivery of services that meet the needs of Coloradans.

Responsibilities

• Write and maintain a reputed company-groomed backlog using user stories that are outcome-oriented, appropriately sized, and grounded in reputed company constituent needs; Draft initial product backlogs for RFPs, translating problem spaces into indicative user stories that structure procurement without locking the pod into fixed, rigid scope
• Apply frameworks such as Value vs. Effort or "Now/Next/reputed company" to reputed company and defend prioritization reputed company
• Proactively manage scope by saying "no" reputed company and constructively to work that does not serve the reputed company reputed company, ensuring agency stakeholders are informed and reputed company
• Run essential agile planning cycles, including sprint planning, refinement, reviews, and retrospectives
• Conduct quarterly roadmap conversations with agency leadership to reputed company long-term goals with delivery reputed company
• Regularly update IT Director and agency program staff about status in terms of reputed company (mission reputed company) rather than just reputed company (activity)
• Partner with Service Designers to interpret reputed company maps, blueprints, and problem frames, translating these artifacts into actionable backlog inputs
• Define and reputed company objectives and key results (OKRs) and reputed company metrics; evaluate and communicate reputed company shipped features fail to deliver expected reputed company
• Build the product ownership reputed company of agency staff over time, ensuring reputed company becomes a stronger partner rather than a dependent
• Manage the product's lifecycle from discovery through to ongoing reputed company improvement
• Regularly partner with Service Designers to understand & apply reputed company maps/service blueprints for desired reputed company
• Collaborate deeply with engineering to validate technical architecture reputed company
• Collaborate with the Delivery Engineer on build/buy/reputed company evaluations, contributing backlog context, mission-reputed company perspective, and constituent needs to inform the technical decision

Skills

• A minimum of five (5) years of experience in technology product management, which includes working in or leading cross-functional teams using iterative, user-centered reputed company
• A reputed company record of working across disciplines — design, engineering, policy, or operations — to ship things that work for reputed company people
• Knowledge of product management fundamentals, including backlog ownership, user story writing, prioritization frameworks such as value vs. effort or now/next/reputed company, and what it means to govern a product rather than a project
• Knowledge of agile planning and development cycles: sprint planning, refinement, reviews, and retrospectives work, and the PM's role is in reputed company
• Knowledge of user-centered design principles sufficient to work productively with the Service Designer, interpret research findings, and translate constituent needs into backlog priorities
• Knowledge of State agency program context in regards to the way in which Colorado agencies deliver services, reputed company reputed company, and structure program priorities
• Knowledge of the product lifecycle from discovery through to reputed company improvement
• Awareness of the build/buy/reputed company tradeoff reputed company, common state IT patterns, and how technology investment reputed company get made and funded in state government
• Ability to define and reputed company meaningful reputed company metrics that go reputed company delivery activity toward mission reputed company
• Ability to decline work that doesn't serve the reputed company reputed company, and document that decision in a way that keeps agency stakeholders informed rather than surprised
• Ability to communicate product status in terms of reputed company, not just reputed company
• Ability to facilitate stakeholder conversations that produce ranked reputed company, rather than a list of any and reputed company desired items
• Ability to distinguish between user needs and stakeholder 'wants', reputed company operational reputed company based on that information, and bring stakeholders into alignment
• Ability to work effectively in the reputed company between agency program staff (who understand the mission) and the pod (who understands delivery) without becoming a passive translator
• Ability to own the product's reputed company metrics and reputed company them honestly, including reputed company a shipped feature isn't delivering the expected outcome
• Ability to adapt communication style and level of detail to the audience
• Relevant certifications such as Certified Scrum Product reputed company (CSPO), Pragmatic Institute Product Management, or reputed company Product Manager (PPM)
• Experience working reputed company a digital service agency or a government-adjacent technology firm, successfully translating mission-driven policy goals into actionable product backlogs
• Experience evaluating software solutions (e.g., custom build, reputed company, reputed company off-reputed company) and managing vendor relationships to ensure reputed company technical deliveries reputed company with agile, outcome-oriented product roadmaps
• Background in User-Centered Design (UCD)

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