At Ice Mortgage Technology, Associate Product Manager plays a critical role in realizing the product vision. The ideal candidate is customer focused, self-starter, independent, enthusiastic, strong team player and business outcome oriented.
Responsibilities
- Leads and manages requirements gathering and analysis activities by working with stakeholders, developers, UX designers, QA analysts and internal/external customers.
- Elicits, captures, analyzes, refines, articulates and documents business requirements, epics, user stories, acceptance criteria and software documentation via approved processes.
- Ensures that requirements meet business objectives while balancing compliance, security, technical feasibility and sustainability.
- Ensures that business objectives and requirements are fully understood by the technical and UX teams before solutions are designed and implemented.
- Participates in Agile cadence such as Scrum standup meetings, backlog grooming sessions, review and retrospective meetings to ensure successful execution.
- Synthesizes complex information into concise, readable, unambiguous language.
- Drives and assists with product backlog maintenance and grooming.
- Collaborates closely with Product Managers, UX Designers, Engineers, Quality Assurance Engineers, Product Marketing and other internal stakeholders.
- Support Sales, Client Management and Technical Support with escalations.
- Assist Technical Publications with the generation of client support documents
Knowledge And Experience
- Solid understanding of software development lifecycle and Agile development processes. Preference for extensive agile experience
- Proven experience creating user stories, acceptance criteria, design documentation, process flows and wireframes in order to clearly communicate a set of functional requirements.
- Strong business requirement analytical skills with the ability to produce clearly articulated requirements and documents.
- Strong understanding of iterative software development.
- Demonstrated interpersonal and leadership skills required to interact with staff, colleagues, management and internal/external customers.
- Attention to details to include ability to follow written and verbal directions and error free written communication
- Manage multiple projects and priorities, tasks and coordinate various channels of communication at the same time
- Flexible and able to adapt to a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Consumer product and mobile app (iOS and Android) experience is required and Mortgage Experience is desirable
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field required, Master’s Degree desirable
- 2+ years of relevant software industry experience required
Schedule
This role offers work from home flexibility of up to 2 days per week