Title:  Sr. Product Manager/Scrum Master (Enterprise or Consumer Software - Agile) - 30-40% Travel Midwest (After things return to normal) (100% Remote)

Our History:
From our start in 2009, Conexess has established itself in 3 markets, employing nearly 200+ individuals nation-wide. Operating in over 15 states, our client base ranges from Fortune 500/1000 companies, to mid-small range companies. For the majority of the mid-small range companies, we are exclusively used due to our outstanding staffing track record

Who We Are:
Conexess is a full-service staffing firm offering contract, contract-to hire, and direct placements. We have a wide range of recruiting capabilities extending from help desk technicians to CIOs. We are also capable of offering project based work.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Build business cases on-site with our clients to prioritize features through market research and competitive analysis
• Establishes product vision for complex and high impact products incorporating leading-edge technologies
• Lead design-thinking workshops of cross-functional teams to yield drafts for personas, current
• and future state process flows and/or journey maps, features, prioritization
• Manage and align product roadmap with customers, and client stakeholders
• Create end to end process maps for current state and facilitate the collaborative creation of a future state process
• Demand and promote insight & customer value driven innovation
• Be able to adeptly ideate and arbitrate as needed with architects, designers, developers and stakeholders
• Manage product backlog with well-groomed user stories that are easy for the engineers to estimate
• Communicate the value of the product or new features to internal and external audiences 
• Recognizes and prioritizes the most important work for product teams (short-term and long-term work)
• Manage product scope, risk and timelines, diplomatically navigating trade-offs and recommending options
• Define and launch minimum viable products, adding key features/requirements incrementally
• Must have project management and/or engagement management experience for large programs
• Use a combination of technical, leadership and business expertise to lead multiple programs
• Assess client situation and define approach, structure and plan for new engagements
• Ability to talk “tech” and leverage technical knowledge (ie Java, React, firewalls, environments, etc.) to plan and ensure the solution will achieve the desired outcome
• Ensure high quality delivery and exceed customer expectations
• Proactively mitigate high impact risks to prevent them from turning into issues and support efforts to manage and resolve critical issues
• Think strategically, foster teamwork, influence, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, a high level of professionalism, the ability to multi-task, and strong attention to detail
• Ensure efforts are coordinated and consistent across remote, onsite, client, and 3rd party resources
• Drives innovation and integration of new processes and quality initiatives into projects and activities in consulting and/or overall organization.

Required Skills and Experience:

Experience:

• 10+ years of product owner or product management experience, preferably in enterprise or consumer software
• Must be experienced taking a product from concept and envisioning through to successful delivery
• Experience working with distributed teams in Agile methodology and proficient in practices with adopted mindset
• Able to work in Agile and brings PM discipline (able to identify and effectively track and mitigate risks; action items; drive a team to meet their objectives)
• Strong proven experience with leading and managing projects
• Experience mentoring other Product Owners/Business Analysts
• Experienced in formulating and implement a strategy of how project objectives can be met in the right sequence by a group of people with unique skills
• Must have project management/engagement management experience for large programs
• Experience communicating at managerial and VP levels of an organization
• Experience working in a fast paced, fluid environment where priorities shift on a regular basis 
  Experience communicating with and influencing functional and technical team members at all levels in the organization
• Experience spearheading initiatives that span across multiple business groups
• Experience working as part of a collaborative, cross-functional, modern software design and development team
• Experience conducting user research and testing to understand needs
• Experience creating, prioritizing and accepting user stories
• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage scope risks using Agile principles
• Experience identifying goals, metrics and analytics to measure product value
• Experience conducting competitive research and analysis
• Ability to effectively communicate at all levels of the organization
• Ability to facilitate problem resolution within all levels of an organization and across organizations
• Experience with major consulting organizations (e.g. Accenture, Deloitte, PWC, CapGemini, etc.) is preferred

Education/Certifications:

• SCRUM Certification highly preferable (Scrum Master/Product Owner)
• MBA or Technical degree preferred

About you:

• Love organizing and bringing people and plans together
• Excellent leadership and communications skills

• Have and can articulate an overall understanding of application development processes/methodologies
• Personal attributes include strong work ethic, passion for what you are doing, detail oriented, and a sense of urgency
• Ability to travel to client site 30-40% (Once things get stabilized)
• Comfortable with ambiguity and finding the path forward
• Passion for learning and growing
• Has sound decision making and critical thinking skills
• Excellent written and communication skills with equal ability to talk to engineers, senior executives, partners, and customers
• Solid organizational skills, including attention to detail and ability to multi-task.

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