IT Product Manager

Enterprise Mobility - St. Louis, MO

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - St. Louis, MO

5,001-10,000 employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Enterprise Mobility is the world's largest car rental operator and an industry leader in mobility and technology. We're one of the top global travel companies, ranking ahead of many airlines and most cruise lines and hotels. And no matter what transportation challenges our customers face, we have an innovative solution. We operate the Enterprise Rent-A-Car, National Car Rental, and Alamo Rent A Car brands via more than 10,000 fully staffed neighborhood and airport offices, including franchisee branches, in over 90 countries and territories. Through this robust global network, we operate a fleet of over 2.3 million vehicles and provide a comprehensive portfolio of transportation solutions, including car rental, carsharing, vanpooling, car sales, truck rental, vehicle-subscription, and affiliated fleet management services. As a total mobility provider, we serve the needs of a wide variety of customers, businesses, government agencies, and organizations every day. At the center of it all, our dedicated IT teams innovate, design, and develop the technology that is redefining how customers rent, buy, and share vehicles from our family of brands. Here, you will be part of a diverse and talented team that creates and delivers powerful technology solutions for our customers and employees across the world with the resources and support to develop in a variety of career paths. As an Enterprise Mobility team member, we offer an excellent package with market-competitive pay, comprehensive healthcare packages, 401k matching & profit sharing, schedule flexibility, work from home opportunities, paid time off, and organizational growth potential. This position is open to candidates who wish to work from home (WFH). Team members who choose virtual / remote work should have an adequate space to serve as their home office.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain APIs as products along with their required features, ensuring APIs deliver value and reusability to the business.
• Partner with solution teams to ensure APIs are well documented in the API Marketplace.
• Ensure optimal developer experience of the API Marketplace and its effectiveness through identification and tracking of key metrics for the API strategy.
• Influence and partner with other technologists and leaders to foster relationships across Solution teams.
• Manage work intake for the group and coordinate efforts with the team.
• Work closely with executive leadership, program and project management, project sponsors and stakeholders, other technical product managers, and engineering teams.
• Collaborate with third-party vendor partners to ensure project deliverables and timelines defined in statement of work (SOW) contracts are being met.
• Promote an API First mindset across IT and support IT initiatives related to API Strategy and Developer Services.
• Help solution teams ideate roadmaps and work towards accomplishing their API journey.

Requirements

• 6 or more years of relevant experience in IT product management.
• Experience with API and Microservice architecture and implementations.
• Experience with Agile methodology and related project/task management tools like Jira.
• Strong documentation and communication skills with proven ability to deliver presentations to diverse audiences.
• Ability to gain consensus and cooperation from multiple areas/departments.
• Leadership and team-centric skills including collaboration, networking, influencing, team-building, and mentoring abilities.
• Proven experience in working effectively in cross-functional teams and maintaining relationships across the organization.
• Excellent time management and prioritization skills.
• Commitment to incorporating security into all decisions and daily job responsibilities.

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Management Information Systems, or related field preferred.
• Prior experience with product management and ownership is a plus.
• Familiarity with modern software development and deployment technologies including APIs, Microservices, DevOps.
• Knowledge of API and service-oriented architecture (SOA).
• Business/Software Analyst experience overseeing a work queue such as Jira, ServiceNow, etc.
• Experience with Event Driven Architecture.

Benefits

• Profit sharing
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Work from home
• 401(k) matching