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Description & Qualifications
Description
Here at UKG, our Engineering, Product, Innovation, and Cloud teams (or EPIC), are the driving force behind our cutting-edge technology. These UKrewers are dedicated to delivering best-in-class solutions that transform how our customers work. With a passion for excellence, EPIC continuously pushes boundaries and strives to make a real impact in the world.
We are looking for a Lead Product Manager to passionately support the Onboarding module within our HCM suite.
Primary duties and responsibilities:
- Collaborate and align with Product and Dev team on product vision, roadmap, and growth opportunities and understand the rationale/business reasons behind building a feature
- Manage backlog, iteration planning, and elaboration of user stories
- Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics, and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value and aligns with the product strategy
- Ensure that the team always has a sufficient number of well-prepared tasks to work on
- Work closely with Product Managers and Product Owner to ensure there is a product backlog based on business value or ROI
- Take an active role in addressing impediments that may impact the team's successful completion of Release/Sprint Goals
- Represent the voice of the customer within the team
- Keep abreast of our competitors and industry trends
- Stay updated with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends
- Provide functional demonstrations of products
- Assist in drafting and editing product-related documentation
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support product launches
Qualifications
Minimum required qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in a business discipline or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 5+ years of experience in a software product manager role. Proven track record of delivering a roadmap that includes Innovation.
- 3+ years' experience in Agile or Lean Software development environment such as Kanban or Scrum
- Experienced in detailed analysis, feasibility studies, performance analysis and prototyping
- Ability to work in a hybrid schedule of 3 days per week on site in our Weston office, from day one
Preferred skills and traits:
- Strong organizational skills, and the ability to grasp new domains quickly and understand the upstream and downstream effect
- Ability to work independently to coordinate and implement solutions to complex functional issues
- Experience in AHA, PENDO, JIRA a plus
- Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
- Experience in research for new concepts. Ideal candidate will have patents.
EEO Statement
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Disability Accommodation
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