Technical Product Manager

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Primary Location: United States (US) - Illinois - Chicago
Function: Product & Process Management (CA)
Title: Technical Product Manager - 91023
Onsite/Remote:Partial Remote Position
This position is eligible for partial telework at the present time. The arrangement may be delayed for training or other job acclimation purposes and remains subject to change.
This position may be located in Moline, IL ; Chicago, IL per the hiring manager's discretion. This may be dependent on the successful candidate's background, experience, and proficiency.
Your Responsibilities
As a Technical Product Manager on the Platform team within the Enterprise Product Data Management organization, located in Moline, IL, you will be part of designing, building, delivery, and enabling other Product Teams. The EPDM Platform Team is responsible for Managing the EPDM Platform(s) (i.e. Windchill) and DevOps processes/tools to enable EPDM Product Teams. In this position you will:

• Understands key business objectives and strategy of the EPDM Platform Product. Works with business owners to ensure that they are engaged and supportive of direction.
• Makes final decisions on product functionality and ensure that functionality is aligned with Digital Product Manager's strategic vision for the products within product family scope.
• Creates and maintains product OKRs (Objectives and Key Results)
• Maintains and refines product backlog.
• Ensures features definition, acceptance criteria, and stories clearly communicate customer/stakeholder needs to the team; works with team to clarify as necessary.
• Understands and supports inter-team dependencies and impediments and escalate issues when necessary.
• Accountable for determining release date, scope of release and communication strategy. Monitors and communicates the key success metrics of the product.
• Participates in team events (e.g., daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint review, sprint demos).
• Manage relationships with key suppliers to ensure strategy alignment

Visa Sponsorship is NOT available for this position.
What Skills You Need

• 4 more years of experience managing requirements for large scale applications.
• 4 or more years of proven experience in the application of sound architecture (e.g. loosely coupled architecture, modular design patterns)
• 3 or more years of experience leveraging DevSecOps culture, tools, & practices
• 3 or more years of Agile software development process experience.
• 2 or more years project management experience working on multiple concurrent projects.
• Experience in roles that required demonstration of negotiation, interpersonal communications, and conflict resolution skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving ability.

What Makes You Stand Out

• Proven ability to manage supplier relationships
• Experience with software development on cloud platforms (i.e. Azure, AWS)
• Experience working within largescale platforms
• Demonstrated growth mindset and servant leadership

Education Details

• Bachelors of Arts/Science in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent experience in a related career field.

What You'll Get
At John Deere, you are empowered to create a career that will take you to where you want to go while working in an inclusive team environment. Here, you'll enjoy the freedom to explore new projects, the support to think outside the box and the advanced tools and technology that foster innovation and achievement. Additionally, we offer a comprehensive reward package to help you get started on your new career path, including:

• Flexible work arrangements
• Highly competitive base pay and performance bonuses
• Savings & Retirement benefits (401K and Defined Benefit Pension)
• Healthcare benefits with a generous company contribution in the Health Savings Account
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Tuition assistance
• Fitness subsidies and on-site gyms at specific Deere locations
• Charitable contribution match
• Employee Purchase Plan & numerous discount programs for personal use

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The information contained herein is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and qualifications required of individuals performing the job. The qualifications detailed in this job description are not considered the minimum requirements necessary to perform the job, but rather as guidelines.
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