Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Relationship Management -

·        Demonstrated experience in communication and mediation skills with business teams and core team members to ensure Client products are progressing according to schedule or product road map

·        Demonstrated experience in team building, consensus building and relationship management skills

·        Experience with strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of products – Discovery, Alpha, Beta, Live or similar delivery methodologies

 

Product Management – Knowledge, Risks, Issues, Scheduling & Reporting - 

·        Experience with identification to risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.

·        Ability to articulate and prioritize issues and risks at program management and senior executive level and recommend mitigation strategies for decision makers

·        Ability to create and maintain a product road map which describes how your product is likely to evolve over time.

·        Ability to delivery on a product with a balanced team (product owner, user experience designers, developers) utilizing Agile (SCRUM) delivery methodologies. Scrum master experience is preferred.

·        Experience gathering and developing requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed product schedule and/or integrated plan

·        Experience with product program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels;

·        Experience with participating in steering committee and stakeholder forums.

 

Technical Skills - 

·        Basic Knowledge in Microsoft Azure cloud platform

·        Knowledge of online collaboration tools such as MIRO, Atlassian Confluence and Trello, Microsoft Office 365, Google Drive, Zoom, Slack and Microsoft Teams

·        Knowledge of Backlog Management tools such as JIRA, Azure DevOps, Pivotal Tracker

Soft skills -

·        Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills

·        Strong presentation, verbal and written communication skills

·        Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills

·        A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines and delivering high profile, high risk, complex initiatives