Responsibilities
The Associate Product Managers are critical team members to smooth, optimized, and successful execution of new product features and enhancements. Their responsibilities include:
Collaborate closely with Product Manager and Development Team to deliver story quality, timing, assignment and volume to manage and prioritize Sprint backlogs
- Decompose features for each MVP into high-level functional and non-functional stories
- Write complete user stories and acceptance criteria which meet the Definition of Ready (DoR) and in a way that create best-in-class client- and partner-friendly omni-channel solutions
- Cohost Product Backlog Refinement sessions
- Prioritize stories within backlog with quant/qual data
- Ensure user stories meet the Definition of Ready (DoR) before socializing to the Scrum Teams
- Lead Sprint Reviews with key stakeholders to secure buy-in, ensure timely follow-up and closure on feedback and action items
- Assist Product Manager to ensure effective Product Backlog management, grooming, tagging, and prioritization
- Assist Product Manager and Scrum Leads in maintaining a deliberate and on-track overarching Project Plan and Product Roadmap
- Engage and collaborate with Product Manager and others (Designer, Architect, Tech Lead, team members, etc.) as needed to understand scope to create product backlog items
- Ensure Product Backlog is transparent, visible, and understood by the Scrum Team
- Collaborate with Scrum Master to help address/resolve dependencies and risks
- Act as proxy for Scrum Master when he/she is unavailable for Scrum/PI Planning events (ie: daily scrum, sprint planning, PI planning, etc.)
- Assist with testing
- Help identify and escalate dependencies and risks
- Coordinate Release Management and communication
- Assist Product Manager and Product Leadership with other ad-hoc projects as needed (such as presentations, roadmaps, strategic research, etc.)
Key Characteristics
- 1+ year experience with functional and technical story writing, acceptance criteria, refinement, and Agile practices preferred
- Superior analytical skills that will allow for detailed research when planning for new features/enhancements or looking into issues
- Good communicator, written and verbal
- Ability to multi-task and simultaneously work on multiple things
- Attention to details
- Stay accountable to clarify and review the user stories for the Scrum Team in a timely manner
- Good facilitator
- Reliable and dependable
- Focused on moving the team forward
- Follow up on clarification
- Stay up to date on Scrum Team's status
- Encourage collaboration and communication
- High sense of urgency
- Curious and ask questions; continuous learning mindset
- Committed to continuous improvement
- Technical Skills: Azure DevOps, Confluence, MS O365 Suite