Cognizant Technology Solutions - Woonsocket, RI
posted about 2 months ago
We are seeking a highly skilled Technical Product Manager or Product Owner to join our team with varied strengths. Cognizant digital engineering designs, engineers, and delivers digital products and experiences that drive digital-first business models. We offer the most comprehensive digital engineering expertise and client-centric methodology for balanced innovation. In this role, you will lead the development and implementation of creative, high-quality requirement roadmaps based on our Modernization strategy and vision. You will assume end-to-end responsibility for the strategic value, usability, and performance of our solutions, influencing key customers in design and planning decisions. You will manage prioritization and tradeoffs among experience, scope, and time to market, working closely with frontend/backend engineering teams, design, and stakeholders in an agile environment to deliver solutions to market. Proactively identifying and resolving strategic issues will be crucial to help the team meet business, financial, and technical goals. You will manage backlog planning and development through day-to-day collaboration and decision-making with a cross-functional team including engineers, designers, and business or subject matter representatives. Your responsibilities will also include developing detailed, streamlined user stories with acceptance criteria based on customer needs/experience and business requirements that can be used to create product specifications and architecture. You will work with UX Research to design usability and research studies to inform product requirements and influence product design and experience. Additionally, you will own and handle the backlog, continuously ordering and prioritizing to ensure that 12 sprints/iterations of backlog are always ready. You will define and analyze metrics that measure and benchmark solution success, drive product launches, and play an active role in optimization and process improvements for teams to easily understand, build, and maintain best-in-class software systems. Lastly, you will provide leadership, technology guidance, and mentorship throughout your domain.