Remote Staff Product Manager

Summary

Join our team at Mechanical Orchard as a Product Manager and be part of modernizing crucial applications that power the world's largest companies. You will balance long-term strategy with tactical delivery, identify and mitigate risk through effective stakeholder communication, and apply a lean and iterative mindset to complex technical problems.

Requirements

High degree of autonomy and responsibility

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
• Occasional travel to company meetings and client sites (1-2 times per year)