Lead, Product Management

Lead, Product Management

CDM Smith is seeking a Product Management Lead to join our Digital Engineering Solutions team. The Product Management Lead we're seeking will be part of the firm's digital transformation and will help define the long-term digital product vision, value proposition, product strategy, and product roadmap. In addition, this role will help guide cross-functional teams through the entire product lifecycle, including stakeholder engagement across our architecture, engineering, and construction (Aec) disciplines.

This position is for a person who has demonstrated excellence as a product manager or product owner and enjoys framing a problem, shaping & creating solutions, and helping to champion implementation of technology solutions. As a member of the Digital Engineering Solutions team, this individual will also engage in research and development and the incubation of innovative ideas that arise from around the company. This role is highly business-facing, with a strong focus on coordinating stakeholders, organizing their input, and ensuring development teams clearly understand business needs and priorities. The ideal candidate will have a proven record in the field of product management, with a mindset of continuous learning and curiosity leading to tangible results.

Under the direction of the Senior Manager of Digital Enablement, the duties and responsibilities for this position include :

• Roadmap and vision : Leads and oversees highly complex and / or large commercial product roadmaps through collaboration with internal stakeholders and market strategy, sales and development teams. Prioritizes, refines, and manages the product roadmap for existing and proposed highly complex or large solutions within the market segment to meet key market and internal customer segment adoption milestones in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (Aec) industries. Conducts foundational user research to gather and prioritize client needs and product requirements.
• Stakeholder engagement and requirements : Leads the process of engaging with internal customers and partners to gather requirements, prioritize needs, and understand business workflows. Conducts and guides more junior staff in conducting stakeholder feedback sessions, workshops and / or interviews. Translates feedback into user stories and use cases for implementation. Shares and communicates information about products to customers and users through blogs, white papers and presentations. Ensures that stakeholder input is organized, documented, and communicated in a way that can be clearly understood and acted on by Product Owners and development teams.
• Quality and testing : Performs acceptance testing for moderately to highly complex products. Documents findings and details to troubleshoot defects / bugs / errors. Works with the development team to replicate findings, perform root-cause analysis, and define a resolution.
• Team coordination and delivery : Responsible for maximizing the output of the development team. Participates in product development from conception to launch. Works day-to-day with development teams to oversee the flow of technical work, including participating in routine Agile meetings. Leads collaborations, facilitates sprint activities, and creates and communicates requirement artifacts that translate business needs into executable requirements. Provides oversight and guidance to more junior product management and / or quality / test staff during product development, with a strong emphasis on coordination, clarity, and removing cross-functional blockers rather than owning detailed technical design.
• Risk Management : Communicates risks and partners with management to implement mitigation strategies. Contributes to the development of controls for an identified risk and obtains approval. Escalates risk events and / or gaps in a timely fashion through retrospectives and / or risk forum participation.
• Go-to-market, go-live and communications : Partners with marketing to help develop and maintain go-to-market plans and sales collateral for products of high complexity or large size. Leads product demonstrations, delivers presentations to customers and prospects, and creates supporting marketing collateral for both internal tool launches and client-facing digital solutions.
• People leadership : Leads, coaches, develops and trains assigned team members. Monitors staff workloads and provides team resources needed to ensure delivery of a high-quality outcome to complete their jobs. Provides ongoing feedback of performance to direct reports and may conduct performance reviews. Approves time sheets and ensures company policies are followed.
• Performs other duties as required.

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Eeo Statement :

We attract the best people in the industry, supporting their efforts to learn and grow. We strive to create a challenging and progressive work environment. We provide career opportunities that span a variety of disciplines and geographic locations, with projects that our employees plan, design, build and operate as diverse as the needs of our clients. Cdm Smith is an equal opportunity / affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, pregnancy related conditions, childbirth and related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression), national origin, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Why Cdm Smith? :

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Join Us! Cdm Smith where amazing career journeys unfold. Imagine a place committed to offering an unmatched employee experience. Where you work on projects that are meaningful to you. Where you play an active part in shaping your career journey. Where your co-workers are invested in you and your success. Where you are encouraged and supported to do your very best and given the tools and resources to do so. Where it's a priority that the company takes good care of you and your family. Our employees are the heart of our company. As an employer of choice, our goal is to provide a challenging, progressive and inclusive work environment which fosters personal leadership, career growth and development for every employee. We value passionate individuals who challenge the norm, deliver world-class solutions and bring diverse perspectives. Join our team, and together we will make a difference and change the world.

Job Site Location : United States - Nationwide

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Amount of Travel Required : 0%

Assignment Category : Fulltime-Regular

Visa Sponsorship Available : No - We will not support sponsorship, i.e. H-1B or TN Visas for this position

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Background Check and Drug Testing Information :

Cdm Smith Inc. and its divisions and subsidiaries (hereafter collectively referred to as "Cdm Smith") reserves the right to require background checks including criminal, employment, education, licensure, etc. as well as credit and motor vehicle when applicable for certain positions. In addition, Cdm Smith may conduct drug testing for designated positions. Background checks are conducted after an offer of employment has been made in the United States. The timing of when background checks will be conducted