Staff Product Manager

EVgo is one of the nation’s largest public fast charging networks for electric vehicles, committed to building a sustainable business that powers transportation and protects the planet. The Staff Product Manager will act as a critical liaison between the Product Management and Development teams, ensuring effective translation of business objectives into technical requirements and facilitating collaboration across stakeholders for successful product delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Product Strategy & Roadmap: Work with Product Management to understand product requirements and ensure that the existing development efforts are in alignment with product vision, strategy, and roadmap
• Technical Translation: Act as the primary bridge between Product and Development teams, translating business needs into clear technical specifications and user stories, including creating tickets, conveying priority in sprints, and documenting any gaps between SRDs and PRDs
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with cross-functional teams including design, product, development, and Sr. leadership to ensure seamless product development and successful delivery
• Backlog Management: Support sprint planning and grooming to aid in prioritizing features, enhancements, and technical debt, and help maintain a clear and well-structured product backlog
• Development Coordination: Work closely with engineering teams to ensure technical feasibility, clarify requirements, and remove roadblocks to execution. Support any documentation needs regarding releases and bugs
• Risk Management: Identify potential technical and business risks, suggest mitigation strategies as needed
• Project Delivery: Support the delivery of assigned projects including working through bugs, suggesting workarounds, and providing impact assessment for any major roadblocks

Requirements:

• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 6 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 3 years experience; or equivalent experience. Some barriers to entry exist at this level, requiring department review
• Strong understanding of APIs, graphQL, cloud platforms, data architecture, and software development methodologies
• Experience with Agile, Scrum, or Kanban methodologies
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders
• Proven ability to align product and engineering teams to drive project success
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, SQL, and data visualization tools