Remote Technical Product Manager Job in Woonsocket, RI Cognizant

Who you are

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or a related field
• Understanding of distributed systems, cloud computing, and microservices architectures
• 5+ years experience as Technical Lead/Design Lead/Solution Lead/Technical Product Manager
• Strong work ethic, self-starter, highly productive in a collaborative environment
• Strong business process acumen with experience supporting business stakeholders
• Business-level communication skills
• Facilitates dialogues 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

Desirables

• Strong work ethic
• Self-starter
• Highly productive
• Strong business process acumen
• Effective Communication
• Leadership
• Collaboration
• Problem-Solving
• Adaptability
• Customer focus
• Critical Thinking
• Negotiation skills

What the job involves

• Own 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 stakeholders in design and planning decisions
• Manage prioritization and trade-offs 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.
• Lead 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, crisp 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 advise product requirements and influence product design and experience.
• Own and handle the backlog; continuously orders and prioritizes to ensure that 1-2 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 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.
• Demonstrate superior product and industry knowledge.

Application process

• Applications will be accepted until 9/12/2024