Product Manager
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Job Location:
Dallas, IA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
3 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Product Manager
Sandy Springs Georgia 30328 4 days
6 month contract
Top 3 Required Skills:
- Business and customer outcomes
- articulate problems and delegrate difficult conversations
- Product requirements & business requirements
1. Why We are replacing a senior level product manager contractor supporting Front of House
(FOH) technology across a multi brand enterprise restaurant environment.
We need a principled product leader who can independently:
- Frame complex problems from first principles
- Navigate sophisticated organizational dynamics
- Drive measurable business outcomes through product decisions
- The right candidate will be comfortable operating in ambiguity influencing without
- authority and making hard tradeoffs.
2. The Core Need (What We Actually Care About)
When sourcing candidates prioritize how they think and operate not just their resume.
We are looking for a Sr. Product Manager who:
- Starts with business and customer outcomes not features
- Can clearly articulate the problem before proposing a solution
- Separates signal from noise in stakeholder input
- Is comfortable saying no not yet or this wont solve the problem
- Takes true ownership for outcomes not just output
This person should treat product management as a decision making discipline not a task coordination function.
3. What This Person Will Be Doing (In Plain Terms)
A. Product Strategy & Problem Framing
- Owns problem definition for complex FOH initiatives (POS team member workflows integrations operational tooling)
- Translates ambiguous business goals into:
o Clear product intent
o Success metrics
o Explicit decision criteria
- Builds outcome based roadmaps that balance near term delivery with longer term strategy
Key signal: Can explain why a problem matters and what tradeoffs were considered.
B. Execution in a Complex Enterprise
- Leads cross functional work across Engineering UX Operations Data and vendors
- Breaks large initiatives into sequenced testable increments
- Makes explicit tradeoffs between speed quality scope and technical constraints
- Maintains high quality standards despite legacy systems and integrations
Key signal: Has delivered results in environments where things were not clean modern or greenfield.
C. Stakeholder Leadership (Without Authority)
- Operates effectively in a matrixed organization with competing priorities
- Aligns stakeholders around shared outcomes not individual requests
- Navigates tension without escalating everything to leadership
- Communicates crisply with senior leaders using clear narratives and recommendations
Key signal: Comfortable influencing peers and leaders without relying on title or escalation.
D. Data Informed Judgment
- Uses data to understand causality not just report metrics
- Knows when data is sufficient - and when judgment is required
- Defines success measures tied to operational and guest impact
Key signal: Uses data to decide not to delay decisions.
4. The Ideal Product Shape
This role skews toward a senior Product Architect / Product Leader not just a pure executor.
Expected Strength Areas
- Business Outcome Ownership
- Product Strategy & Strategic Impact
- Stakeholder Management
- Problem Framing & Systems Thinking
Baseline Competence (Required but Not the Spike)
- Agile delivery and backlog management
- Writing clear product requirements
- Day to day collaboration with brand stakeholders project managers and engineering teams
5. Anti Profiles (Please Do Not Send)
Avoid candidates who are primarily:
- Project managers disguised as PMs
- Feature factory PMs who equate shipping with success
- Overly consensus driven and avoid hard decisions
- Dependent on heavy oversight or step by step direction
If a candidate needs a tight structure to operate they will struggle in this role.
6. Experience Signals We Value
This is not a strict checklist but strong candidates often demonstrate:
- Experience operating in large complex enterprise environments
- Success leading initiatives without direct authority
- Clear examples of making and defending tradeoffs
- Willingness to change direction based on better problem understanding
- Comfort engaging directly with senior leaders
Restaurant or QSR experience is helpful but not required if the candidate shows strong systems thinking and operational empathy.
7. What Success Looks Like
A successful contractor in this role:
- Rapidly builds credibility across product engineering and operations
- Brings clarity to ambiguous problem spaces
- Makes fewer better product bets
- Reduces noise and increases alignment
- Delivers measurable business and operational impac
