Product Manager Senior - DECHEN CONSULTING GROUP, INC

Dechen Consulting Group (DCG) is a rapidly expanding, innovative IT Professional Services and Management Consulting company with a track record of more than twenty-five years in delivering skilled professionals to our clients across diverse sectors.

We are currently seeking a Senior Product Manager for a W2 contract opportunity in Dearborn, MI. This role has the potential to extend over multiple years, with the chance to transition to a direct hire position with our client. We provide healthcare, vacation, relocation assistance, and visa sponsorship/transfer. This is a W2 position, not C2C. Third parties need not apply. This role offers excellent prospects for career progression!

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Technical IT Product Manager for our OGC Legal Practice Product team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in IT product management and possess advanced skills in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a plus. This role requires a professional with excellent collaboration skills, gathering and documenting high level requirements working with business customers, capable of managing the end-to-end lifecycle of IT products, from conception to deployment, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer needs. This is a hybrid work opportunity, and the team is normally onsite 1-2 days/ week in Dearborn, MI. This position is ideal for the multi-faceted individual who has experience as a Software Engineer, Solution Architect, Business Analyst, Designer and Product Manager, and is interested in working with a portfolio of cutting-edge tools, COTS products, multiple PDO organizations and business customers. This person will manage a Product Team that develops/supports multiple products. We are looking for a person who will act as both a participative technical leader and a Product Manager. Work with multiple organizations (Business Customers, PDOs, ITO) to understand business requirements, develop/manage product roadmaps and develop new products per the product backlog. Act as the single point of contact for your products.

Skill Required:

• Roadmap Planning: Develop and maintain a detailed product roadmap, working closely with product owners and end users to ensure alignment with business goals and customer needs.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive product backlog: Create user stories, epics, and features, ensuring alignment with the product roadmap and business goals.
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with internal stakeholders, including product owners, software engineers, end users, and customer support, to gather requirements, prioritize features, and ensure successful product delivery.
• Product Development: Oversee the product development lifecycle, including defining requirements, creating user stories, and working closely with engineering teams to deliver high-quality products on time.
• UI Workflow Design and Development: Lead the design and development of user interfaces and workflows to ensure intuitive and efficient user experiences.
• GCP Expertise: Utilize advanced skills in Google Cloud Platform to design, implement, and manage cloud-based solutions, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.
• SRE and DORA Practices: Implement Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices and leverage DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) metrics to enhance product reliability, performance, and deployment efficiency.

Skills Preferred:

• Data-Driven Decision Making: Leverage data analytics and user feedback to make informed decisions about product features, enhancements, and prioritization.
• Agile Methodology: Implement and promote Agile best practices to ensure efficient and effective product development processes.
• Performance Monitoring: Establish KPIs and metrics to monitor product performance and drive continuous improvement.
• Customer Focus: Ensure that customer needs and feedback are at the forefront of product development efforts, enhancing user experience and satisfaction.
• Overall Product Support: Provide comprehensive support for the product, including post-launch maintenance, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.

Experience Required:

• As a Product Manager, work closely with Business Partners to understand their Product Vision, and break it down into an actionable Backlog of User Stories for the Development team.
• Experience in designing and implementing data models to support product features and analytics.
• A track record of driving innovation and delivering cutting-edge solutions in a fast-paced environment.
• Coordinate communications between the supplier and various interface teams and IT team.
• Identify and manage issues and risks, as well as any mitigation and contingency plans.
• Investigation of defects and suggestions for resolution.
• Final verification of system functional readiness for deployments including cutover planning and execution.
• Support the deployments by working with end users.
• Implement existing program-level standards for design, security and controls, user interface and documentation.
• Capture lessons learned and communicated to team.
• Facilitate development of business requirements within the domain.
• Conduct Requirements gathering, System Analysis, Gap Analysis, Business process modelling and user Acceptance testing.
• Develop project testing plans and coordinate testing with internal applications.

Experience Preferred:

• Develop impact analysis for projects.
• Interface with Project Leads, Business, and IT analysts to ensure accurate and timely delivery of projects within the domain.
• Develop, execute test scripts.
• Ensure appropriate use of IT processes, tools and methodologies.
• Works hands-on with the development team to Prioritize, Plan, and Deliver Software that meets Client Requirements.
• Helps Business Partners understand our Iterative Development approach and focus on delivering a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) through careful and deliberate prioritization.
• Works with Design Resources (Product Designers internal and/or external) to ensure timely delivery of Designs and Assets of REST APIs to the Development team.
• Mentors and Train Product Teams to help them learn Agile methods and build skills.
• Identify potential Success stories and share them with the Communications team.
• Help Innovate and Iterate on Agile PM processes and share our learnings.

Education Required:

• Bachelor's degree or a combination of education and equivalent work experience.

Education Preferred:

• 10 years of Product Management experience, with duties including but not limited to:
  • Experience in Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban).
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a data-driven approach to decision-making.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
  • Deep understanding of customer needs and the ability to translate them into actionable product features.
  • Excellent collaboration skills, with a track record of working effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• 10 years as a Product Manager/Business Analyst focused on cloud-based solutions. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is preferred, but experience with other cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) is acceptable.

Additional Information:

This is a hybrid work opportunity, and the team is normally onsite 1-2 days/ week in Dearborn, MI.

Original Duration: 12 Months

We are a people-focused company with a deep emphasis on family values and look forward to working with you.