Product Manager, Development Platform

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Our Customer’s mission is to create groundbreaking sport innovations, by making their products more sustainable, building a creative and diverse global team, and making a positive impact in communities where we live and work. Their purpose is to bring inspiration and innovation to unite the world through sport to create a healthy planet, active communities, and an equal playing field for all.

We are seeking a Product Manager, Development Platform on a contract basis to join the team. This role is data-centric focused and passionate about enabling digital transformation through data. The candidate in this role has a strong knowledge of software product development, a solid technical background, and a proven track record of delivering solutions that improve the productivity of users.

The company is looking for a highly strategic and tactical, analytical, inventive, consumer data-centric focused, team-oriented individual who can simultaneously understand the big picture and have a strong command of the technical details. The candidate in this role will have a proven track record of delivering results under tight timelines and bringing cross-functional teams together to meet evolving business needs.

This role will be an integral part of the team, working in a highly cross-functional highly matrixed dynamic, and fast-paced working environment. This role is onsite in Beaverton, OR.

What You’ll do:

• Be the liaison between the cross-functional stakeholders, partners, and the product squad team in understanding and documenting requirements, use cases, business benefits/impacts, and source to target mappings, etc
• Be key to understanding the data better and delivering foundational data artifacts that will ensure operational readiness of the data for secure access and consumption, including the realization of a complete set of metadata
• Work in an agile environment, creating and prioritizing epics and working with the team to translate requirements into stories with acceptance criteria, track deliverables, and timelines, and manage and escalate risks as necessary
• Coordinate intake requests and gather all the necessary details to facilitate request reviews, prioritization, and access approvals
• Set quarterly key results and metrics to ensure that we as a team are delivering business value that ladders up to the organization's top priorities
• Ensure that the team is delivering and tracking to work defined on the roadmap and quarterly planning commitments
• Champion data-driven product vision and strategy that supports the company’s top priorities
• Identify the strategic product implications and opportunities resulting from major corporate strategies and change initiatives

The ideal candidate must have:

• 5+ years of experience in Digital Product Management and Product Delivery
• Excellent listener and communicator who can effectively facilitate intake requests, requirements gathering, understanding of use cases, and other types of cross-functional discussions
• Highly proficient in SQL, MYSQL, or similar experience in analyzing large structured and unstructured datasets
• Good understanding and ability to interpret JSON contracts, APIs
• Highly proficient in the creation of new and understanding of existing Source to Target Mappings of data transformations and integrations
• Highly proficient in data analysis and validation
• Experience working on metadata
• Passionate about documentation
• Ability to timely and proactively manage issues, risks, dependencies, and deliverables
• Positive demeanor
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Ability to influence critical business outcomes in a matrix-based, global environment
• Experience operating in Agile/SCRUM delivery methodology
• Ability to quickly ramp up on the different Product Creation data sources available
• Passion for data and doing the right thing
• Ability to manage the intake and prioritization process to understand data needs from both business and tech partners, consumers, and stakeholders
• Technical proficiency in query data, access data from both front-end and back-end applications, and ability to build and read sources to target mappings
• Knowledge of metadata (work experience on metadata preferred)
• Strong analytical and technical background:
  • Ability to own an epic E2E, define acceptance criteria and ensure that all dependent teams are aware of any changes or work required, including integrations

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Business, Computer Science area or equivalent

Hours & Location:

• M-F, 40 hours/week. This role will be onsite in Beaverton, OR.

Please note: In order to create a safe, productive work environment, our client is requiring all contractors who plan to be onsite to be fully vaccinated according to the CDC guidelines (please inform your employer if you need a medical or religious exemption). Prior to onboarding, contractors will be required to attest that they are fully vaccinated.

Perks are available through our 3rd Party Employer of Record (Available upon completion of the waiting period for eligible engagements)

Health Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life (including spouse & child), 401k, STD/LTD, AD&D, and Commuter Benefits program.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.