Associate Product Manager

Associate Product Manager

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Job Description

As a Product Manager at Publicis Sapient, you act as your clients’ trusted advisor in leading the overall vision, strategy, roadmap, and prioritization for a specific digital product, or products, within an engagement. You will collaborate with clients undertaking major Digital Business Transformation (DBT) engagements to understand their business, end-customer needs, and then constantly deliver value with fast increment cycles.

• Work with the project leadership to document the product’s vision and the project’s scope.
• Work with software and system engineers to develop requirements and design documentation
• Develop documentation artifacts in compliance with governmental policies and standards, such as HHS Enterprise Performance Life-Cycle (EPLC)
• Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, storyboards, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, event lists, business analysis, competitive product analysis, task and workflow analysis, and/or viewpoints.
• Decompose high-level business and user requirements into functional requirements and quality assurance metrics, specified in an appropriate level of detail suitable for use by those who must base their work on the requirements.
• Develop user stories and acceptance criteria based on requirements
• Review wireframes to verify that they address all relevant user stories and acceptance criteria, as well as verifying accuracy of all annotations
• Define quality attributes, external interfaces, constraints, and other nonfunctional requirements.
• Lead requirements analysis and verification, ensuring that requirement statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable, and that they conform to standards.
• Use research and analysis to identify emerging approaches, technology, and solutions that can be leveraged in the implementation of identified requirements.
• Develop training materials and conduct end-user training sessions.
• Write user guides and supporting assistance materials, such as FAQs and desktop references

Qualifications

• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• Eligible for U.S. Government Clearance.
• 1-3 years of relevant work experience; consulting experience is a plus
• Experience performing current and future state analysis for IT systems
• Experience collecting requirements and writing stories and acceptance criteria using the Scrum or Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) approach
• Experience supporting development teams through the agile process to include supporting sprint planning, story verification, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives
• Interviewing skills, to talk with individuals and groups about their needs and ask the right questions to surface essential requirements information
• Listening skills, to understand what people say and to detect what they might be hesitant to say.
• Analytical skills, to critically evaluate the information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a more general understanding, distinguish presented user requests from the underlying true needs, and distinguish solution ideas from requirements
• Facilitation skills, to lead requirements elicitation workshops
• Observational skills, to validate data obtained via other techniques and expose new areas for elicitation
• Strong writing skills, to communicate information effectively to customers, marketing, managers, and technical staff
• Ability to create documentation that is leveled for both business and technical users
• Organizational skills, to work with the vast array of information gathered during elicitation and analysis and to cope with rapidly changing information
• Interpersonal skills, to help negotiate priorities and to resolve conflicts among project stakeholders (such as customers, product management, and engineering)
• Modeling skills, to represent requirements information in graphical forms that augment textual representations in natural language, including using modeling languages already established in the development organization.
• An understanding of contemporary requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, verification, and management practices and the ability to apply them in practice; familiarity with requirements engineering books and resources
• An understanding of how to practice requirements engineering according to several software development life cycles in a team environment
• Knowledge of software development life-cycle practices, principles, and techniques
• Knowledge of standard research and analysis methodologies, frameworks, and techniques

• Certified SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager designation
• Certified Agile Product Manager designation

Additional Information

• Flexible vacation policy; time is not limited, allocated, or accrued
• 15 paid holidays throughout the year
• Generous parental leave and new parent transition program
• Tuition reimbursement
• Corporate gift matching program

• "A successful Product Manager at Publicis Sapient combines leadership skills, rooted on customer centricity, with tactical product management skills to drive the clients and team in releasing program increments every 10-12 weeks (or applicable frequency at client’s organization)."

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