Technical Product Manager/ Product Owner (Remote)

$102,600 - $162,500/Yr

Cognizant Technology Solutions - Woonsocket, RI

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Woonsocket, RI

10,001+ employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

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.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and implementation of creative, high-quality requirement roadmaps based on Modernization strategy and vision.
• Assume end-to-end responsibility for the strategic value, usability, and performance of our solutions.
• Influence key customers in design and planning decisions.
• Manage prioritization and tradeoffs among experience, scope, and time to market.
• Work closely with frontend/backend engineering teams, design, and stakeholders in an agile environment to deliver solutions to market.
• Proactively identify and resolve strategic issues to help the team meet business, financial, and technical goals.
• 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.
• Develop 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.
• Work with UX Research to design usability and research studies to inform product requirements and influence product design and experience.
• Own and handle the backlog; continuously orders and prioritizes to ensure that 12 sprints/iterations of backlog are always ready.
• Define and analyze metrics that measure and benchmark solution success.
• Drive product launches including working with business stakeholders, engineers, and other cross-functional teams across the enterprise.
• Play an active role in optimization and process improvements, for teams to easily understand, build, and maintain best in class software systems.
• Provide leadership, technology guidance and mentor others throughout their domain.

Requirements

• Masters' Degree or equivalent experience Preferred
• Understanding of distributed systems, cloud computing, and microservices architectures
• 5+ years of experience working as Technical Lead/Design lead/Solution lead/Technical Product Manager
• Strong work ethic, self-starter, and able to be highly productive in a dynamic, collaborative environment
• Strong business process acumen with experience in supporting business stakeholders
• Business-level communication is a must
• Facilitates dialogues that produce new perspectives and trigger recommendations for substantial innovative/enhancement, and analysis of consequences
• Skilled in negotiation to align stakeholders and communicate a single synthesized perspective to the scrum team
• Database knowledge - SQL, NoSQL, table structure, data relationships
• Experience/Understanding of APIs and its operations, data model/data structures/data integrations/data migrations, basic SQL queries, databases and release pipeline (CICD)
• Experience/understanding of cloud computing, application security, Test management process and Engineering Excellence (Code quality/Defect management/code reviews etc.)

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with agile methodologies
• Familiarity with product management tools
• Knowledge of user experience design principles
• Experience in a remote work environment

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
• 401(k) plan and contributions
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan