Description

Key Responsibilities

• Own the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and modernization priorities.
• Gather, document, prioritize, and manage business and functional user stories.
• Translate business needs into clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and actionable product backlog items.
• Collaborate with architects, developers, UX/UI designers, and vendors to define technical and functional solutions.
• Prioritize features and technical work based on business value, risk, dependencies, and strategic objectives.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives as needed.
• Serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams.
• Define product success metrics and KPIs and track progress against established goals.
• Support change management, user adoption, training, and implementation activities.
• Ensure solutions align with security, accessibility, data privacy, and compliance requirements.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and impediments and drive timely resolution.
• Provide regular project and product status updates to leadership and business sponsors.
• Oversee and support large-scale data conversion and validation activities.
• Support enterprise application modernization, process improvement, and business process reengineering initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience as a Product Manager leading $10M+ large-scale public-sector modernization efforts.
• Demonstrated experience modernizing legacy applications or leading digital transformation initiatives.
• Strong experience gathering user stories from diverse business stakeholders and converting them into actionable product backlogs.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar platforms.
• Experience overseeing and testing large-scale data conversions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills with the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Strong stakeholder management, leadership, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise application modernization, including legacy platform migration and modern architecture adoption.
• Familiarity with Microsoft technologies, Azure cloud platforms, or content management systems.
• Experience with process improvement and business process reengineering.
• Knowledge of WCAG 2.1 accessibility standards and public-sector compliance requirements.
• Experience working with Commonwealth or other public-sector organizations.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• YAFOS certification is Required

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree