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Homeoffice Product Manager - Custom Application
HALO Branded Solutions · Illinois · United States Of America · Remote
About the job
Full-time
Description
We are HALO! We connect people and brands to create unforgettable, meaningful, and lasting experiences that build brand engagement and loyalty for our over 60,000 clients globally, including over 100 of the Fortune 500’s. Our nearly 2,000 employees and 1,000 Account Executives located in 40+ sales offices across the United States are the reason HALO is #1 in our $25B industry.
The Product Manager is responsible for working with the customer to understand their needs and translating them into a product vision and roadmap. They will be working with internal stakeholders and suppliers to define, develop, and document the product vision.
- Strategy: Defining product strategy with all relevant stakeholders, and effectively prioritize across initiatives, teams, and functions.
- Roadmap: Hands-on defining of roadmaps and creating user stories with cross functional teams.
- Collaboration: Successfully influence stakeholders without formal authority, leading cross functional teams across geographies and business units.
- Research: Conducting data driven research to drive product decisions.
- Design: Work with the Design (UI/UX) teams to deliver user centric solutions.
- Define the product requirements and measures of success that align to roadmap deliverables aligned with company vision, customer needs, and market trends.
- Engage Engineering with a Product Owner mindset to ensure product requirements are established, user stories are written and acceptance criteria followed per agile software development principles.
- Author use cases based on specific, real-world product applications and extrapolate detailed product requirements.
- Manage backlog of prioritized features and enhancements according to customer need and product roadmap.
- Identify key KPI and OKRs, build reports, and run analysis to determine opportunities to enhance or develop new features, functionality and products.
- Evangelize the product vision across owned product lines to stakeholders.
- Ability to exercise judgement and make tactical prioritization decisions working closely with Product peers and Engineering leadership.
- Perform and coordinate software acceptance and regression testing.
- Lead coordinate user acceptance testing (UAT) and post-implementation validation.
- Educating and mentoring individuals on Agile methodology will be essential to this individual’s success.
- Facilitate great agile ceremonies like sprint planning, daily stand-ups, iteration review and retrospectives.
- Other responsibilities as assigned.
- 5+ years of product management experience with demonstrated accomplishments in implementing projects and other initiatives. Candidate must be able to demonstrate a history of repeatedly leading successful project execution.
- Prior work experience with development methodologies including Waterfall, Scrum, Agile, and/or Lean.
- Great communicator and listener in-person, over phone, email, and videoconference.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to effectively present and communicate complex solutions to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Able to create and maintain standard project deliverables for multiple projects such as: technical product specifications, requirements backlogs, process flows, wireframes, mockups, timelines, etc.
- Aptitude to translate business requirements into technical requirements.
- Capable of facilitating communication between stakeholders from all levels of the organization while objectively identifying and resolving conflict.
- Ability to manage multiple complex projects and prioritize competing priorities.
- Understand all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC).
- Proficiently drive business participation in all phases of the project.
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
- Proficient in Microsoft applications (Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint).
- Strong work ethic, good humored with a positive “can do” attitude.
- Values curiosity, creativity, inclusive teams, and achieving results.
- Problem solver that is comfortable making judgment calls how to spend time.
- Loves learning by providing, receiving and responding positively to constructive feedback.
- Detail oriented and strong organizational skills; Motivated by deadlines.
- Strong organization, time management, self-initiative, sense of ownership and accountability.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to comprehend technical information and instructions in order to communicate and collaborate with coworkers, clients, stakeholders, etc.
- Bachelor’s degree in related field preferred, MBA strongly preferred.
- 5+ years on experience in Product Management
- Experience with product performance monitoring and optimization.
- Strong data analysis and problem solving skills.
- Knowledge of databases, SQL structures and writing simple queries.
- Basic knowledge of HTML and/or other web based technologies.
- 5+ years combined experience in supplier, and/or promotional products industry.
More About HALO
At HALO, we unleash the energy of our client's brands and amplify their stories to capture the attention of those who matter most. For that reason, more than 60,000 small- and mid-sized businesses work with HALO and have made us the global leader of the branded merchandise industry.
- Career Advancement: At HALO, we love promoting from within. Internal promotions have been the key to our exponential growth in the last few years. With so many industry leaders at HALO, you'll have the opportunity to accelerate your career by learning from their experience, insights, and skills and gain access to HALO's influential global network, leadership experiences, and diverse thinking.
- Culture: We love working here and know that you will too. You can expect a positive culture of ingenuity, inclusion, and relentless determination. We push the limits of possibilities and imagination by staying curious, humble, and provocative in order to break through yesterday's limit. Diversity is the source of our creativity and we thrive when each of us contributes to an inclusive culture of respect, dignity, and equity mindset in everything we do. We keep our promise for excellence with an unrelenting commitment to achieving results and supporting one another to stay accountable, transparent, and dependable.
- Recognition: You're going to succeed here, and you can count on us to celebrate your wins. Colleagues across the company will join in recognizing your big milestones and nominate you for awards. Over time, you'll earn so much recognition that you can convert into gift cards, trips, concerts, and merchandise at your favorite brands.
- Flexibility: We pride ourselves on flexible schedules that help you find a balance between professional and personal demands. We believe that supporting our customers is the priority and trust that you and your manager will find a schedule to achieve that priority.
- Stay well at HALO: At HALO, we have benefits that support all parts of your life and to find a work-life balance custom to you. We offer nationwide coverage for Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability insurance, and additional Voluntary Benefits. Prepare your financial future with our 401K Retirement Savings Plan, Health Savings Accounts (HSA), and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA).
HALO participates in E-Verify. Please see the following notices in English and Spanish for important information: E-Verify Participation and Right to Work.
HALO is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process – including the online application and/or overall selection process – you may email us at [email protected]. Please do not use this as an alternative method for general inquiries or status on applications as you will not receive a response. Reasonable requests will be reviewed and responded to on a case-by-case basis.