Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Granicus is a company focused on transforming the Govtech industry by enhancing government-citizen interactions. They are seeking a Manager of Product Management to lead product teams and drive innovation in their platform, leveraging AI tools and ensuring effective collaboration across various stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Support and lead a team of world-class engineers, product owners and designers throughout product lifecycle
- Develop and maintain a near-real time picture of concept attainment across 4 scrum teams, including the 'why' behind the attainment in relation to levers like initial estimates, velocity, scope change, concept status, etc
- Leverage AI tools in day-to-day product management activities, including synthesising customer and stakeholder inputs, analysing delivery performance, identifying risks, and supporting roadmap prioritisation
- Enthusiastic to leverage AI for individual workflow compression, innovations in the team operating model, and in agentic product enhancements that create value for government users
- Lead and manage Product Owners & Managers, and govD teams in effective program increment planning
- Identify and apply practical AI-enabled approaches to improve product discovery, backlog management, planning, and cross-team coordination
- Develop operations excellence to promote health and hygiene of the govD backlogs and releases across value streams (e.g. security vulnerabilities, CSIs, support, etc.)
- Facilitate effective cross-functional communications across product management, engineering, cloud, support, implementation, solutions consulting, and customer success teams
- Effectively manage tradeoffs associated with delivering roadmap concepts, using data and AI-supported insights to inform prioritisation and decisions
- Sets high expectations related to PO command of the govD tools and how they are intended to work
- Lead daily standups, in partnership with govD Director, across PM and POs to facilitate effective govD roadmap planning and attainment
- Proven success in communicating, presenting, and selling ideas to senior executives
- Act as a mentor, trainer and resource to other Product team members
- Participate in the continuous improvement and scaling of Product Management best practices at Granicus
- Other duties as assigned
Skills
- Experience leading Product Owners and Managers, as well as off-shore and internationally dispersed teams
- 5+ combined years in Product Management
- Fluency in JIRA and Aha!
- Demonstrated ability to build quantitative business cases and financial models
- Demonstrated ability to identify and apply AI tools and capabilities to improve product management workflows, including research, prioritisation, and decision-making
- Experience using AI-enabled tools to synthesise data, generate insights, and support roadmap development
- Understanding of the opportunities and limitations of AI in a product context, with the ability to apply appropriate judgement and oversight
- Demonstrated experience with complex, transformational roadmap initiatives
- Experience delivering high-quality technology products/services in a fast-moving environment where priorities and structures shift rapidly
- Success working in an agile environment
- High level of intellectual curiosity drives you to ask great questions and seek supporting data to interpret the most important needs of the product
- Excellent organizational and quantitative analytical skills
- Technical depth that enables you to understand and earn the respect of the engineers you work with
- Ability to break the long-term vision down into specific, manageable deliverables that deliver user value as quickly as possible
- Ability to think strategically with the capacity to expand customer use cases into platform-wide requirements
- Demonstrated success in working with cross-functional teams
- Excellent communication skills regardless of the audience — software engineers, product designers, business stakeholders, users, etc
- Experience in marketing automation and/or digital engagement platforms is an added bonus
Benefits
- Flexible Time Off – Take the time you need to rest, recharge, and live your life.
- Company-Wide Wellbeing Days – Paid days off to unplug and focus on your mental health.
- Work From Home Reimbursement – Support a productive home office environment.
- Multiple Health Plan Options – Including a 100% employer-paid plan.
- Employer HSA Contributions – When enrolled in a High-Deductible Health Plan.
- Fitness Reimbursement Program – Stay active, your way.
- On-Demand Mental Health Support – Access to Headspace and other wellness tools.
- Paid Parental Leave – For both birthing and non-birthing parents.
- Traditional & Roth 401(k) – With a generous company match.
- Life & AD&D Insurance – 100% employer-paid coverage for peace of mind.
- Online Learning Platforms – Fuel your professional development.
- Competitive Salary & Bonuses – Your contributions are valued and rewarded.
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