Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a global operator franchisor and licensor of hotel residential and timeshare properties. The company is primarily focused on management franchising and licensing of its lodging properties. It also occasionally develops acquires or renovates hotel and residential properties directly and through partnerships joint ventures and other business structures with third parties.
Position: Product Manager
Location: Bethesda MD 20814
Duration: 10 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Description:
- The Product Manager Consumer Products is responsible for supporting the multiple technologies that drive value in this area and the work efforts for the Digital and Technology Transformation in this space.
- This role will collaborate with business partners and technical teams to maintain a well-groomed product backlog of features to include refined user stories with solid technical solutions that are ready for development.
- In addition to owning a product this role requires project management skills to be able to work with internal and external teams to drive program deliverables.
- The candidate would be able to produce any of the following deliverables in this role: A project plan a product roadmap risk and issue assessments status updates etc.
- On a day to day this candidate will need to communicate with: product peers engineers VP Leadership external business partners/vendors.
Skills:
- Product Owner experience managing and prioritizing product backlog
- Experience with Agile Development methodology and tools (CSM certification a plus); ability to define features and stories.
- Experience with project management best practices (Waterfall Agile Scrum etc)
- Ability to convert business needs into technology requirements tasks or milestones for the team to deliver
- Excellent communicator both written and spoken. Must be able to explain product vision business objective technical feasibility define requirements risks issues project milestones and technical implementations
- Demonstrated ability to drive work across multiple stakeholders in a highly matrixed environment
- Demonstrated ability to deliver results under challenging conditions particularly when faced with complexity ambiguity and aggressive timelines
Education:
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience/certification
- 3 years experience in information technology application design or development or related professional area
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity Employer supporting workforce diversity.