Senior Product Manager

Codazen is looking for a Product Manager excited to take on challenges in a growing and fast-paced environment. The candidate should have deep technical understanding and experience of driving and owning software product development principles and processes. 

The Product Manager will serve as the 'voice of the client’ throughout the end-to-end process of product development and ensuring that the software products and experiences delivered meet the client’s needs and goals. You are responsible to work with clients to define and clarify product strategy and goals, business case, make strategy recommendations, and drive forward the team’s success to achieve those client’s defined goals. This role will supervise Product Owner and/or Quality Assurance Analysts to help translate strategy into execution within their assigned projects.

This role is responsible in maintaining and prioritizing the product backlog to ensure that the Scrum teams are working on stories and technical work that maximize business value and deliver necessary fixes and functionality. Experience with Agile methodologies is a requirement, and the candidate must be detail oriented with ability to effectively communicate with all levels of management. In particular, experience in creating effective, actionable user stories to drive software product development is preferred. 

• Gather and define scope and requirements with clients to achieve the software product goals and relay those requirements to the rest of the teams. 
• Drive forward product strategy and make recommendations to achieve the client’s immediate and long-term goals. 
• Facilitate higher-level strategic initiatives. 
• Identify and understand product risks along with triggers that impact severity. 
• Work with clients to clarify requirements and mitigate these risks.
• Analyze and assess key performance measurements to drive customer goals and improvements to the product.
• Lead task prioritization and backlog grooming with cross-functional teams, communicate prioritization to creative, engineering, production teams effectively and accurately. 
• Build and maintain strong client relationships through daily communication. 
• Lead the production team in creating and maintaining detailed project plans, project briefs, and task requirements with defined parameters and input from team members as needed. 
• Construct user stories with well-defined requirements and confirm requirements are satisfied upon development completion. 
• Facilitate and support collaboration and effective workflow between project team members.
• Oversee process adoption and improvement. 
• Create a healthy team culture that provides continuous feedback, support and empowerment.
• Set clear goals for yourself and your team and hold employees accountable for deliverables while recognizing and rewarding strong performance 
• Evaluating current processes to determine where improvements can be made.
• Ensuring consistency amongst teams and unifying the production processes across the company. 
• Rolling out process improvements in a way that minimizes disruptions.
• This role will be 100% onsite Monday through Friday based out of Irvine, CA.

• Bachelor's Degree in information science, computer science or equivalent experience. 
• Minimum of 5 years' experience in client-facing role, ideally supporting enterprise clients
• Minimum of 5 years' experience working on marketing websites or consumer-facing web applications
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience managing production team members
• Minimum of 5 years' experience in Product Management role
• Proven success managing the delivery and release of consumer-facing digital projects or enterprise software products. 
• Experience coordinating between creative and engineer teams in a client-facing environment is strongly preferred. 
• Understanding of web application and general software development 
• Strong knowledge of digital disciplines including: Strategy, Creative, UX, Information Architecture, Business Analysis, Technology, QA, and Analytics. 
• Strong knowledge of SDLC and Agile Methodologies  
• Excellent written and verbal communicator, with great interpersonal and presentation skills. 
• Detail-oriented, take-ownership approach, self-organizing and highly skilled in time management to facilitate involvement in multiple projects. 
• Collaborative attitude, stellar communication skills, and a results-driven mindset.

• Certified Scrum Product Owner - CSPO
• Experience with Jira, Asana