[Hiring] Technical Product Manager @Cambium Learning Group

Role Description

The Technical Product Managers in Lexia's Product Management organization are responsible for guiding the continual improvement and integrity of the company's online student and educator applications and platforms. This requires collaborating with stakeholders across technical and non-technical internal teams, and developing a good understanding of the products' fit within the U.S. PreK-12 education market.

The Technical Product Managers work closely with each other, as well as with the broader Product Management, Content, Learning Design, UX Design, Engineering, and QA teams to influence new ideas, drive product improvements, and manage the technical requirements throughout the software development lifecycle.

The Technical Product Managers have a software development, software architecture, or other strong technical background and become subject matter experts on the platform and technology behind the company's software solutions. They possess strong communication skills, including the abilities to:

• Understand and explain market challenges
• Define and champion solutions for those challenges
• Translate business requirements into feature definitions for technical audiences
• Explain technical risks and limitations to non-technical audiences

The Technical Product Managers influence and help to manage the product roadmaps and backlog, and assist with internal and external communication of product features, plans, and work in progress.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with at least four (4) years of experience in technical product management
• Experience working closely throughout the entire software development lifecycle with UX designers, software developers, and QA engineers as a product manager or product owner
• Experience as a product manager for online SaaS products is preferred
• The ability to think critically and creatively when faced with competing priorities, feature development challenges, and release-blocking issues
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail with the ability to meet deadlines
• Excellent communication skills in writing for, conversing with, and presenting to engineers, non-technical business leaders, and customers
• Expertise working with Atlassian's Jira software is preferred

Requirements

• Understand the strategic business goals for the product as owned and articulated by the business Product Managers
• Work with customer-facing internal teams to understand desired product feature additions and updates
• Demonstrate proactive understanding of business or market challenges and the ability to offer clear solutions
• Understand and communicate technical constraints and dependencies and how these may affect the roadmap
• Communicate and champion the value of the roadmap goals internally and externally as needed
• Communicate to key stakeholders progress toward the roadmap goals, risks as they materialize, and course corrections when they are needed
• Fulfill the strategic roadmap goals by defining and prioritizing product features and improvements into releases over time
• Drive each release of features and improvements through user stories in cross-functional collaboration with Content, Learning Design, UX Design, Engineering, and QA team members
• Create and manage user stories with clear acceptance criteria, epics for managing related user stories, and bug tickets as they occur
• Help manage an up-to-date and prioritized backlog that has a clear and understandable set of prioritized user stories and other tickets as needed
• Constantly manage the scope and contents of each monthly release in collaboration with, and with respect to the bandwidth of, all required cross-functional teams
• Become an expert on the expected behavior and user experience of each products' user personas
• Experiment with the latest tools to improve the requirements definition process
• Prepare and publish product release notes
• Demonstrate and explain features and functionality to internal and external stakeholders as needed
• Help to create and maintain product documentation such as Help Center articles, user guides, etc.
• Create user personas, use cases, feature briefs, and other product documentation as needed

Benefits

• Remote First Work Environment
• Reimbursement to help cover the cost of setting up your home or remote office

Company Description

We are dedicated to fostering a culture that celebrates unique backgrounds, ideas, and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender, gender identity/expression, or sexual orientation), national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or genetic information.

We will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. You may request an accommodation during the recruiting process with your Talent Acquisition team member.