Mechanical Orchard is hiring a
Staff Product Manager

Summary

Mechanical Orchard is a fast-growing startup that specializes in modernizing crucial applications for large companies, focusing on risk mitigation and agile practices. The Product Manager role involves owning and running the backlog of work for their teams, providing clarity and focus, driving incremental progress, unblocking technical impediments, maintaining excellent customer relationships, and contributing to continuous improvement of software delivery practice. This role requires a high degree of autonomy, frequent client-facing communication, and occasional travel. Mechanical Orchard is an equal opportunity employer.

Requirements

• High degree of autonomy and responsibility
• Frequent client-facing communication and interaction with all levels of leadership

Responsibilities

• Owning and running the backlog of work for their teams
• Providing clarity and focus on complex technical projects
• Driving incremental progress in terms of learning, mitigated risk, and delivery of modernized applications to production
• Creatively unblocking the project team from technical and organizational impediments
• Understanding and balancing tradeoffs between customer needs, user needs, technical limitations, and security constraints while maintaining sustainable pace
• Using lean principles to de-risk work
• Driving decision making within the team and with internal and external stakeholders
• Proactively communicating, internally and externally, with leadership and client stakeholders to ensure transparency and clarity in project progress, risk, and milestones
• Maintaining tight feedback loops within the project team, with internal stakeholders, and with customer stakeholders
• Maintaining focus and forward momentum for the project team
• Establishing and maintaining excellent customer relationships, with alignment on priorities and progress
• Contributing to the continuous improvement of our software delivery practice across the entire product lifecycle by applying and advocating for modern agile and product management practices

Benefits

• Remote work, flexible hours (role is remote-first)
• Occasional travel to Mechanical Orchard company meetings and client sites for in-person collaboration