Senior Technical Product Manager - BusPatrol
Remote, VA 22079
About the Job
Location: Remote - US (Preferably Denver, CO)
Travel: less than 5%
Manages Others: No
Education: Bachelor of Computer Science or Equivalent Experience
Experience:
Position Summary:
We are seeking an experienced Senior Technical Product Manager to lead and build our Emergent Work Team, a strategic initiative to address high-priority, fast-moving product and partner needs. Reporting to the VP of Product and Strategy, you’ll be responsible for productizing emergent work at the top of the funnel, including:
- Responding to RFPs, law changes, and partner requests.
- Onboarding new states and partners.
- Enabling cooperative agreements and integrating new vendors and strategic partners.
This team will serve as a strategic bridge to our core product delivery teams, improving customer experience while reducing downstream impacts.
This role is critical to improving our customer experience while enabling the success of our internal delivery teams and delivering strategic KPI impact. Aspirational KPIs for this new capability include:
- Increasing awareness and visibility to emergent work by 25%
- Increasing partnership with cross-functional teams (Sales, GovOps, Legal, and Implementations) by 25%
- Improving our customer experience by 25%
- Reducing negative downstream impacts to our delivery teams by 25%
- Reducing development lead time by 25%
What You Will Do
Lead the Emergent Work Team:
- Lead the Emergent Work Team:
- Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap and productization for this new team.
- Align the team’s goals with the delivery teams and strategic KPIs.
Foster Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Serve as the primary liaison between business teams (Sales, Legal, GovOps, Implementations) and technical teams (Product, UX, Engineering, and AI).
- Partner closely with various internal stakeholders to ensure seamless execution and proper hand-offs between groups.
Drive Product Innovation:
- Develop a framework to visualize, document, and productize emergent work streams.
- Prioritize and execute initiatives with speed and rigor, leveraging data-driven insights.
Enhance Processes and Metrics:
- Build standard measurement and dashboarding processes for emergent work streams.
- Create standard work, a sustainable structure, and a scalable approach.
Deliver Strategic Results:
- Support critical growth initiatives such as new partners, new states, vendor integrations, and compliance with new legislation.
- Continuously optimize the performance of your team, operational efficiency, and strategic impact.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience in technical product management, with expertise in agile software development environments.
- A bias for action, the experience to lead from the front, and the wisdom to empower others while leading from the back.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and deliver results.
- Strong analytical skills with experience in sizing, estimating, impact analysis, metrics, experiments, and measurement.
- Comfortable with ambiguity, developing clear and concise priorities and roadmaps.
- A track record of building new capabilities, teams, or frameworks from the ground up.
- Exceptional communication and facilitation skills, with a talent for engaging senior stakeholders.
Why Join Our Team?
- If you are a builder of new teams, capability and solutions this is right up your alley!
- Smaller company = more impact, faster.
- Private equity backed.
- Purpose-Driven Work that protects kids and communities.
- Innovative work in an AI company.
- A distinctive culture that helps you become the next best version of you while do well by doing good.
- Competitive Package: Enjoy a competitive salary, incentives, and benefits in a rapid growth company.
- Travel: up to 20%
- No direct management, but direct influence and dotted line reporting from SMEs.
How We Work:
At BusPatrol, we uphold four core pillars:
- Safety: We prioritize safety in every decision we make.
- Connection: We foster strong relationships and opportunities for growth.
- Excellence: We strive for quality and innovation in all that we do.
- Impact: We measure success by fulfilling our mission and delivering results.
WHAT WE OFFER
BusPatrol employees get:
- A competitive salary and benefits package
- Comprehensive personal time off, including volunteering and birthday days off
- An opportunity to help build a company dedicated to children’s safety
- The chance to join an innovative and dedicated team, focused on leading edge technology
- The occasion to participate in BusPatrol’s culture of safety, learning, and teamwork
BusPatrol’s school bus safety programs are violator-funded, meaning that those who break the law pay for the technology that protects children. We build solid partnerships in the communities in which we operate which, coupled with our innovative business model, leads to sustainable efforts to change driver behaviors.
HOW WE WORK
On our mission to make the journey to and from school safer for children, the way we work together and with our partners is built on foundational cultural pillars.
- SAFETY
Safety is our focus, for the children we protect and for each other. We follow the letter and spirit of occupational safety law, relentlessly employ safety best practices, and foster learning and development on our worksites. We are safe to be ourselves and to make mistakes, and we create safe environments for our teams. - CONNECTION
We build strong relationships and teams in support of our mission. We promote and provide opportunities for employees to grow together. - EXCELLENCE
We commit to innovation and quality work in support of our mission and each other. The children we safeguard are at the forefront of our decisions and actions and we excel on their behalf. - IMPACT
We measure success by fulfilling our mission and keeping the company strong. We invest our time and energy in the actions that deliver results for students and for their communities.
We are looking for a valued member of the BusPatrol team to assist us in our quest to improve children’s safety. This is an important role for us and a great opportunity for the right candidate. Our environment is inclusive, diverse, ignited, built on integrity, and deeply committed.
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