Product Manager II

Summary

Join Fearless Digital as a Product Manager II and contribute to building impactful software. This 100% remote, full-time position requires a minimum of 5 years of product management experience and a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. You will be responsible for guiding the team in product vision, strategy, and roadmap creation, translating them into user stories, and managing stakeholder communication. The role involves collaborating with clients, technical teams, and product owners. Fearless offers a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, retirement plan, paid time off, and various other perks.

Requirements

• Ability to obtain security clearance required by the project: Public Trust
• Completed Bachelor's degree OR an additional 3+ years of Product Owner/Product Manager experience
• A minimum of 5 years of demonstrated working experience as a Product Manager
• Strong experience supporting Technical teams and products with high proficiency in the following: Modern web application frameworks
• Modern software development practices
• Identity proofing capabilities and NIST (cybersecurity) requirements
• Strong proficiency using the following tools: GitHub, Jira, Google Drive
• Experience working in a fast-paced Agile environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable presenting to internal and external audiences
• Extensive knowledge of product ownership roles and a solid understanding of ownership gaps
• Ability to operate and manage work, strategically reason, build relationships, and influence others
• Very strong written (documentation) and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

• Guide the team, customer, and end users to build a product vision, roadmap, and strategy
• Align client stakeholders
• Translate roadmaps and visions into user stories and epics
• Develop, communicate, and execute long-term product vision and strategy
• Create the product roadmap to help clients formulate, prioritize, and implement short and long-term planning
• Manage the discovery phase to ensure proper problem identification validation
• Effectively manage stakeholder communication and ensure stakeholder requirements, business needs, and user needs are aligned
• Effectively translate technical documentation and identify any resulting opportunities/dependencies
• Serve as a consultant to client product owners on backlog prioritization, epic/feature/use case/user story creation, identifying user personas, and acceptance criteria
• Partner with clients to develop and monitor strategies for user adoption, cost savings, and informing product decisions
• Create value propositions and partners with stakeholders to establish Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
• Identify and communicate risks, business opportunities, and dependencies to the client
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with the client, team members, and partner organizations
• Coach and serve as a subject matter expert for client product owners
• Effectively communicate business and operational objectives and requirements to technical teams, as well as technical capabilities and limitations to the business stakeholders
• Proactively identify areas of improvement
• Write clear problem statements and user stories in preparation for refinement. collaboration with the Product Owner
• Prioritize stories and tasks for sprint planning and refinement based on goal priorities and performance metrics
• Creates and communicates the team's baseline documentation. This includes: Sprint goals
• New feature documentation
• Works with Product Owner to address risks, blockers, and dependencies for features and the team
• Communicates and plans strategic decisions and/or implementations with the Product Owner
• Maintain a risk register

Preferred Qualifications

• Product management experience in local, state, or federal government contracting and/or consulting
• GitLab experience (for project management)
• Experience consulting in product management
• Experience coaching and/or training internal and external audiences in product management best practices

Benefits

• Life-friendly schedules
• Family-friendly workplace
• We cover 100% of your premium for our medical HSA plan + the deductible portion of HSA contributions, 80% of your premium for our HMO or PPO plans, and offer competitive dependent coverage. We cover 100% of dental and vision premiums for you and your dependents and offer medical and dependent care FSA options. We also offer life insurance, short- and long-term disability coverage, and legal planning and support insurance
• Tech, education / training, and wellness allowances
• Safe Harbor 401(k) plan with employer contributions (current match = 4%) and immediate vesting
• Referral bonus: Bring your friends! If someone you refer is hired, you’ll get a bonus of $6–12k!
• Total Pet Plan
• Employee Assistance Program
• Up 12 weeks of FMLA paid at 100%
• PTO is provided to team members as a lump sum allowance, not an accrual. PTO is prorated based on your start date ( see table below ) on a quarterly basis (with tenure-based increases), 8.75 days of sick leave, 11 federal holidays, their birthday (8 hours), up to 15 days for jury duty, and up to 3 days (24 hours) of bereavement leave per eligible instance