Lead Product Manager (PDM) Only w2

Title: Lead Product Manager (PDM) Only w2

Work Location Address: Baltimore, MD; Wilmington, DE; Charlotte, NC; Evansville, IN; Irving, TX(Hybrid with 50 Miles only)

Minimum 10+ Years of Experience required.

Responsibilities • Prioritization & Tradeoffs: Work closely with the Lead Product Manager to understand strategic goals, prioritization, and tradeoffs for the Program Roadmap. Quickly absorb new context and evolving priorities, ensuring higher-priority work is clearly defined, ready, and sequenced for focused delivery within their team. • Analysis, Requirements Definition & User Story Development: Collaborate closely with Business, Design, Engineering, and Operations partners to define detailed requirements at the Epic and Story level. Rapidly synthesize inputs and drive clarity, ensuring shared understanding across stakeholders. • Drive Sprint-Level Execution: Own day-to-day product execution for a dedicated team, ensuring sprint goals are clearly defined, achievable, and aligned with broader roadmap priorities. • Backlog Management & Readiness: Create, refine, and maintain a prioritized backlog with at least 2 - 3 sprints of ready work. Ensure user stories are well-defined, actionable, and meet acceptance criteria before entering team refinement and development. • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Business, Design, Analytics, Engineering, and Operations to drive alignment, resolve ambiguities, and deliver cohesive solutions. • Dependency & Risk Management: Proactively identify, track, and manage cross-team dependencies to ensure teams can deliver sprint outcomes on time. Surface trade-offs with clear recommendations and adjust sequencing or scope to maintain momentum and enable independent delivery. • Quality & Continuous Improvement: Ensure delivered features meet quality standards and business intent. Incorporate feedback and performance insights to iteratively improve product outcomes and team execution. • Stakeholder Communication: Provide clear, consistent updates to stakeholders on progress, risks, and outcomes at the team level.

Key Skills • Execution-Focused: Strong ability to translate strategy into clear, actionable work and drive delivery at the sprint level. • Fast Learner & Adaptable: Quickly builds domain understanding, absorbs new information, and evolves it effectively to evolving product needs. • Collaboration & Communication: Effective at working across legal, compliance, engineering, business, and operations partners to build shared understanding and alignment. • Analytical & Detail-Oriented: Comfortable using data and insights to prioritize and validate outcomes. • Customer-Focused: Understands customer pain points and ensures solutions address real user needs. • Self-Managing & Solution-Oriented: Able to navigate ambiguity, manage competing priorities, and make informed tradeoffs. • Ownership & Accountability: Takes responsibility for delivery within their product area and follows through on commitments.

Experience • 3-5+ years of experience in Product Management or a related role within a technology-driven organization • Experience working in Agile environments with strong backlog management and sprint execution responsibilities • Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with Engineering teams and cross-functional stakeholders • Experience in Financial Services or consumer-facing digital products preferred • Experience in working with and coordinating processes related to third party software products as part of product solution (such as verifications and credit lookup related products) • Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, or equivalent practical experience

Mandatory Skills:

Experience •6+ years of experience in Product Management or a related role within a technology-driven organization • Experience working in Agile environments with strong backlog management and sprint execution responsibilities • Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with Engineering teams and cross-functional stakeholders • Experience in Financial Services or consumer-facing digital products preferred • Experience in working with and coordinating processes related to third party software products as part of product solution (such as verifications and credit lookup related products) • Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, or equivalent practical experience

Desired Skills:

Key Skills • Execution-Focused: Strong ability to translate strategy into clear, actionable work and drive delivery at the sprint level. • Fast Learner & Adaptable: Quickly builds domain understanding, absorbs new information, and evolves it effectively to evolving product needs. • Collaboration & Communication: Effective at working across legal, compliance, engineering, business, and operations partners to build shared understanding and alignment. • Analytical & Detail-Oriented: Comfortable using data and insights to prioritize and validate outcomes. • Customer-Focused: Understands customer pain points and ensures solutions address real user needs. • Self-Managing & Solution-Oriented: Able to navigate ambiguity, manage competing priorities, and make informed tradeoffs. • Ownership & Accountability: Takes responsibility for delivery within their product area and follows through on commitments.

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Harish

Talent Acquisition

Astir IT Solutions, Inc - An E-Verified Company

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