Job Description
Job Description
Position: Product Manager
Location: Vienna, VA (Hybrid)
Employment: Contract
Required Experience: 5 – 10 years
Responsibilities
- Responsible for defining and supporting product initiatives that help build desirable, feasible, and sustainable products/services that meet member and internal customer needs with minimal oversight
- Develops a deep understanding of the division’s business objectives, risk tolerance, and member needs in order to proactively identify needs, problems, and solutions based on analyses
- Support the end-to-end product development life cycle including ideation, product definition, build/prototyping, design, validation, and delivery
- Leads, without formal authority, assigned product features (new or existing) from ideation to enhancements to post-delivery maintenance
- Ensures the Portfolio, Program, & Team layers are aligned on outcomes that deliver tangible business value and bridges big picture understanding and tactical needs
- Content authority of the program backlog, accountable for feature creation, feature acceptance, prioritization, delivery plans, and overall management
- Explores the market, conducting market research on product features to understand end-to-end the current and future member needs
- Defines, owns, and communicates the product functions, vision, and roadmap while supporting the architectural runway
- Solves moderate to complex project-related problems
- Focuses on the agile methodology of delivery by scoping iterative releases, collaborating with and influencing stakeholders to meet business goals
- Acts as the voice of the internal team member and advocate for the needs of those stakeholders on their behalf
- Builds partnerships and alliances, and manage relationships with partners to drive forward the implementation on all fronts to develop innovative products and services
- Enables decision making for leaders around product features through clear and concise communication
- Develops and implements change management strategies and plans for product features
- Develops unprompted new ideas, initiatives, and recommendations that drive continuous improvement
- Serve as a business subject matter expert regarding product functions and how they relate to other products and services
Qualifications
- Collaborative attitude and able to work with technology and business partners to ensure efficient and effective delivery
- Quick learner with an analytical and flexible thinking style
- Strong multi-tasking and the ability to meet deadlines
- Excellent ability to communicate effectively (written and oral) and work well on cross-functional teams
- Comfortability with big, undefined problems and the capability to break down problems to find solutions
- Exposure to working in an agile environment
- A strong data sense, combined with analytical skills to help make informed recommendations
- Aptitude and curiosity for learning how technical process flows work
- 2+ years of experience in product management or related roles
- Knowledge of the financial services environment and Navy Federal's operations, policies, and procedures·
- Master’s Degree in Business, Management, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or the equivalent combination of experience, education, and training
Job Tags
Contract work, Flexible hours,