Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Lumen Solutions Group Inc. is a technology consulting services company providing business and IT professionals for solution design, implementation, and support. The Senior Product Manager will drive product strategy, prioritization, roadmaps, and Agile delivery for network infrastructure products across a distributed enterprise environment, while leading Product Owners and collaborating with engineering, architecture, and business stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Apply and reinforce effective Product Management practices
- Develop a deep understanding of business objectives and processes to inform product priorities across multiple products of varying complexity
- Support the development and maintenance of a comprehensive long-term product strategy within a portfolio to deliver business value
- Manage the prioritization and backlog of features and user stories based on business value, customer feedback, and technical feasibility, ensuring the team works on high-priority items
- Collaborate with stakeholders, including business leaders, customers, and development teams, to ensure everyone is aligned with the product vision
- Coordinate with Product Manager, Product Owners, Engineering, Architecture, Agility Enablement, and other stakeholders to ensure that features for customers and frontline employees are cohesive and deliver business value towards running a successful passenger railroad
- Capture, develop, and promote effective Product Management practices within DT and with stakeholders
- Implement and champion the principles of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), ensuring agile methodologies are followed
- Define and track success metrics to measure the value and identify areas for improvement or pivots
- Strong leadership, communication, and facilitation skills, with the ability to bridge the gap between business needs and technical delivery
Skills
- Require a strong IT infrastructure background with deep expertise in network connectivity and access, as well as proven experience ensuring network reliability, availability, and performance across complex enterprise environments
- The successful candidate will have deep understanding of networking concepts, either from work in that technical area or as a product leader for a large networking team
- Washington, DC (Remote - Quarterly travel required for PI Planning at D.C. or Wilmington, DE)
- Strong leadership, communication, and facilitation skills, with the ability to bridge the gap between business needs and technical delivery
- Deep understanding of networking concepts as they apply to a distributed network
- Concepts such as firewalls, cloud, vlan, and segmented networking will be predominant topics in conversations
- Should be well versed in ITSM concepts including change management practices
- Ability to prioritize and make data-driven decisions
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Experience with Jira Software, Confluence, FigJam, Jira Align, AgilityHealth, and similar tools
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent applied experience
- Required: 9-12 years of relevant experience, leadership experience in managing product teams and influencing senior level management and key stakeholders
- Demonstrated experience with agile methodologies, with
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) experience preferred
- Candidates with POPM or ITIL certifications will rise to the top of the candidate pool
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
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