Technical Product Manager with Shopify and ecommerce

Technical Product Manager with Shopify and ecommerce

Client Brillio / UMG

Max rate $70/hr C2C (Can go ONLY a couple of dollars more for a good candidate)

The Technical Product Manager is the key liaison between executive sponsors and engineering teams with the purpose to drive requirement elicitation and to design an agreed solution all within the project scope and budget. The ideal candidate will have a strong business and technical aptitude and know how to proactively facilitate both requirement and technical design discussions to completion and serve as the subject expert for project team members.

Role and Responsibilities

The Technical Product Manager is responsible for:

Translating complex business problems into functional technical solutions including but not limited to data mapping technical evaluation of APIs and solutioning of associated interfaces and systems analysis

Communication of requirements to key engineering resources and actively contribute to application design for front and back end solutions

Providing business and system subject matter technical expertise to engineering and business team members

Providing documentation for technical teams and business users (i.e. technical functional diagrams User Stories BPMN Wireframes UML PowerPoint etc.)

Breaking down business requirements into concise JIRA tickets (Epics User Stories Tasks) for engineers and defining Acceptance Criteria for QA analysts

Accept completed user stories to make sure the work and technical approach fulfills the criteria

Communication with the business on delivered system capabilities documenting those capabilities and training the business on how to use those capabilities

Contribute to the feature definition of the product by suggesting features in the backlog to improve usability and creating user stories for the development team

Managing multiple work streams assessing priorities managing timelines and delivering complete accurate work products

Proactively resolving time conflict issues working with direct management

Qualifications and Education Requirements

Strong business analyst experience in eCommerce required and Shopify experience preferred

Experience with a product information management (PIM) system a plus

Requirements elicitation & ability to translate into viable innovative technical solutions

Excellent technical writer & strong technical integration skills

Strong understanding of Agile & application development

Ability to create logical diagrams of complex interfaces

Anticipates needs and takes initiative to address challenges

Strong critical thinking and problemsolving.

Degree level qualification in Information Technology Engineering Business or related discipline

10 years of experience in IT Business Analysis (with at least 35 of those years in ecommerce experience)

Experience in documenting specifications and diagramming technical solutions for webbased applications

Demonstrated experience in:

o Leading structured and efficient requirements definition sessions

o Expert writing skills of requirements and technical documentation

o Business process and technical architecture diagramming.

o Using tools to create different levels of documentation

o Executing deliverables efficiently and ontime

o Selfmanagement to meet project goals and deliverables

o Presentation skills

o Facilitation skills and people management skills

o Organization skills

o Working well in team environment but can work alone when required