Product Manager

Product Manager

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Product Manager

Job ID

110140

Posted

28-Mar-2023

Service line

GWS Segment

Role type

Full-time

Areas of Interest

Digital & Technology/Information Technology

Location(s)

Richardson - Texas - United States of America

Job summary

• Responsible for ensuring the proper balance between business needs, technology options, and user experience in order to enhance product value and increase efficiency. Acts as the "voice" of the customer, translating customer needs to the Agile team by properly codifying intent, sizing work efforts, prioritizing needs, and summarizing issues.
• Essential duties and responsibilities
• Works closely with designers, engineers, and business professionals in a collaborative environment to create strategic, product roadmaps.
• Draws upon customer insights to drive the software product vision and direction; Provides leadership in identifying and defining ongoing product features that align with business strategy.
• Defines software solutions that CBRE’s technical teams can deliver. Represents the customer to the technical teams, answering questions about client expectations.
• Uses technical and product expertise to prioritize deliverables and manage backlog of requests. Owns the product backlog.
• Facilitates discussions, user story development and refinement, and testing and validation; contributes to roadblocks resolution and decision making.
• Provides regular updates; manages executive collaborator communication and reporting.
• Acts as a single point of contact for ongoing support and services. Prioritizes needs, engages various technical teams, as needed, routes requests to correct owners, and ensures support is provided to internal or external satisfaction.
• Actively engages in Agile process, including daily scrum sessions, demos, and testing activities, as well as training and organizational change activities, as needed.
• Manages changes to features and communication to ensure there is clear indication of what is required for each release
• Assists the team in sizing and breaking down Epic into a manageable size to accommodate the release cadence. Writes user stories and cases, as needed.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Supervisory responsibilities

No formal supervisory responsibilities in this position. Provides informal assistance such as technical guidance, and/or training to coworkers. May lead project teams and/or plan, and supervise assignments of lower level employees.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each crucial duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and Experience

Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) in a related field of work or equivalent work experience. Requires technical and business knowledge in multiple fields/processes. Typically has 7-10 years of relevant work experience.

Certificates and/or Licenses

None

Communication skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Strong organizational and analytical skills. Ability to provide efficient, timely, reliable and supportive service to customers. Ability to effectively present information.

Financial knowledge

Requires advanced knowledge of financial terms and principles. Translates high-level specifications for software components into program specifications. Estimates time against completing the program specifications.

Reasoning ability

Ability to research, comprehend, analyze, and interpret complex documents accurately. Ability to solve problems involving several options in situations. Requires cultivated analytical and quantitative skills. Ability to solve problems of moderate complexity.

Other Skills and/or Abilities

Scope Of Responsibility

Decisions made with thorough understanding of procedures, company policies, and business practices to achieve general results and deadlines. Responsible for setting work unit and/or project deadlines. Errors in judgment may cause long-term impact to product(s)

CBRE is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity. We have a long-standing commitment to providing equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, veteran status, political belief, or any other basis protected by applicable law. We also provide reasonable accommodations, as needed, throughout the job application process. If you have a disability that inhibits your ability to apply for a position through our online application process, you may contact us via email at or via telephone at +1 (U.S.) and +1 (Canada).

NOTE: Some, but not all, of our positions may have an additional requirement to comply with COVID-19 health and safety protocols, including COVID-19 vaccination proof and/or rigorous testing. If you have questions about the requirement(s) for this position, please inform your Recruiter.

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