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Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States
Hybrid
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GreatAmerica is a highly successful entrepreneurial company providing equipment financing to businesses across the United States. Our exemplary customer service, our principle-centered business philosophy and our team-based operating approach are key to our success and growth. We have also recently become a bank!
As a member of the Product Management team, the Product Manager manages the end-to-end product life cycle of a single product or feature set. This role will collaborate with stakeholders and agile teams to provide execution and implementation of the product strategy roadmap. This role is critical in acting as the voice of the customer to understand the customer pain points, feature new opportunity and showcase product and to go to market strategies.
As a Product Manager, you will:
1. Product Strategy & Roadmap
Define product outcomes and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), break down work into actionable steps to facilitate product discovery, design, development, and delivery.
Manage an end-to-end product lifecycle by implementing a Now, Next, and Later framework that captures a rolling 12-month product roadmap.
Stay abreast of industry trends, competitive landscape changes, recommend new technological trends, and innovative products/features to the teams.
2. Stakeholder Management & Collaboration
Partner with key stakeholders to identify and prioritize new features and enhancements and record them in Jira.
Influence product decisions by providing consultation and direction to stakeholders.
Manage a room with various stakeholders and drive ROI discussions to justify work.
3. Product Discovery & Customer Insights
Identify, analyze, and interpret new requests using various kinds of techniques to meet customer and internal stakeholder needs and requirements.
Talk to customers to understand pain points, new feature opportunities, showcase product capabilities, and go-to-market strategies.
Acts as the voice of the customer.
4. Design & Prototyping
Work with various partners to create screen prototypes/wireframes, gather feedback, and adjust to optimize performance.
5. Agile Delivery & Backlog Management
Work with the Agile Development Team and Scrum Master, lead backlog planning and grooming, and support Release planning.
Maintain the sprint backlog: refine, estimate, and prioritize work.
Collaborate with BSAs, developers, testers, and UX to clarify requirements.
Participate in daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
Use tools such as AHA, ProductBoard, or Jira Aligned to manage product backlog.
To be successful in this role you will need:
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related disciplines.
Experience
Skills and Abilities
Computer Skills
Advanced knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite
Sharing rewards is an integral part of our culture. We believe in the value of hard work and reward our employees beyond the paycheck. Our total rewards package is based on eligibility and includes:
Financial Benefits
Health, Wellbeing, and Family Planning Benefits
Education and Career Planning Benefits
Perks
If your experience aligns closely, please apply. We value diverse backgrounds and adding new perspectives. We encourage you to apply if you can make a strong impact in this role at www.greatamerica.com/careers.
Please note, applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa.
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