Sr Product Manager

Federal Express Corporation is seeking a Sr Product Manager to support prioritized Portfolio and Value Stream work. The role involves collaborating with various stakeholders to break down complex projects into program features and managing the delivery of business value through prioritized features.

Responsibilities:

• Converts solution for one or more epics into features which are defined and refined within the program backlog and prioritized and sequenced on the program roadmap
• Manages the delivery of business value through prioritized features and enablers working through the program Kanban and the program backlog to ensure there are adequate ready features in the backlog at all times
• Leads and collaborates with Product Owners on understanding of features to translate into stories for the appropriate team backlog(s) within the Agile Release Train
• Leads feature definition and refinement including establishing feature acceptance criteria
• Understands the specific customer and stakeholders needs, collaborates with business and technical architects and value stream leadership to define solutions with portfolio strategy in mind
• Works with system and solutions technology members to influence decision-making and sequencing of key technological initiatives that will lead to product delivery
• Contributes to and helps lead program planning by defining and presenting the business intent, planned features, and highlighting any known dependencies and milestones throughout the next program increment
• Leads the program increment demo to evaluate business value delivered against the business intent and inspect and adapt the product or solution for the next program increment
• Collaborates with Product Managers supporting other programs and value streams to determine cross-program impacts, interdependency of work and priorities, and a plan for communication, coordination and delivery of a larger solution
• Provides input and feedback to Epic Owners on new and existing epics, with customer needs in mind. Communicates with stakeholders on progress of solutions
• Maintains epics and features in required agile planning tooling solution(s)
• Performs other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree/equivalent required
• 4 years demonstrated experience in a lead role responsible for breaking down complex projects into solution-oriented deliverables across organization wide projects or system design (waterfall, agile, etc.) required
• Knowledge of Agile and Lean values/concepts and scaling with SAFe framework required
• Strong influencing skills to guide leadership, Business Architects, Product Owners, Agile Release Trains, and all stakeholders to understand vision, resources, priorities and definition of completion/release
• Software skills, including use of Microsoft Office and web-based applications
• Demonstrated solutions-based thinking with the ability to break down complex concepts into understandable, smaller and sequential deliverables
• Strong ability to tailor communications of complex concepts to all levels in an understandable manner
• Business acumen and ability to understand the larger company strategy
• BS degree in engineering, business, information systems, computer science or another related discipline preferred
• Technical knowledge as a system user subject matter expert preferred to understand IT system and priorities as it relates to features and iteration requirements
• Experience leading large, cross-functional transformation programs with multiple, interdependent workstreams
• Strong dependency, risk, and critical-path management skills across portfolios (not just within a single project)
• Experience designing and operating program governance, including intake, prioritization, escalation, and decision forums
• Ability to translate complex technical work into executive-ready narratives, tradeoffs, and recommendations