Product Manager

• Drive execution of the program vision as a participant within a support or enterprise project development team
• Review and contribute to the program vision, roadmap, and content presentations for Program Increment Planning
• Assess product usefulness and explain functionality to users
• Coordinate resolutions involving system- or application-level changes for business-reported incidents
• Monitor new features and releases and coordinate upgrades with Business Technology and stakeholders
• Liaise between the development team, stakeholders, and senior leadership to define product features and user stories
• Manage the backlog and prioritize stories with the Product Manager, System Architect/Engineering, and key stakeholders
• Negotiate scope, priority, commitments, and schedule for backlog work involving multiple stakeholders and subject matter experts
• Inspect and evaluate product progress through each iteration, including demos, and determine whether the final product is acceptable
• Participate in agile ceremonies including Program Increment Planning, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and sprint reviews
• Collaborate with other WoodmenLife Product Owners to exchange ideas on product features
• Understand how risks, assumptions, dependencies, and constraints affect delivery and release plans
• Perform functional-level product configurations when applicable
• Set and adapt administrative rules for product usage; monitor and report on product usage, performance, and productivity
• Set up users and assign user rights within the product
• Create user-level and administrative-level workflows
• Meet attendance and punctuality expectations
• Perform other duties assigned by management and occasional tasks supporting development-team release commitments
• Abide by company security policies and procedures

Product Owner

• Own hardware platform decisions for a market vertical, serving as the product expert and influencing market strategy and roadmap
• Identify and lead new product development opportunities through Voice of Customer activities, customer interactions, industry events, and market research
• Develop business cases and plan programs by evaluating product-market fit, pricing strategy, development effort, and timelines
• Evaluate and improve current product solutions by identifying gaps, prioritizing feature changes, and assessing underperforming products
• Lead hardware device pilots and field trials, including success criteria, customer recruitment, logistics, outcome tracking, and go/no-go recommendations
• Drive minor product design changes and Engineering Change Orders from request through release
• Lead new sensor compatibility releases with suppliers, hardware and software engineering, and sales
• Coordinate cross-functional initiatives through process-driven management, clear communication, and effective interpersonal skills
• Work closely with Anova stakeholders and suppliers
• Report to a Senior Hardware Product Manager focused on cross-vertical strategy and major programs

Product Manager – Hardware Platform

• Support the SMPES Product Owner in defining and prioritizing product backlogs
• Translate operational needs into use case diagrams, use case descriptions, activity diagrams, and operational scenarios
• Coordinate with users, requirements managers, program managers, and development teams to clarify requirements and priorities
• Conduct requirements elicitation with users, operators, requirements managers, and PMO personnel
• Refine operational scenarios, problem sets, need statements, and requirements artifacts
• Support product-owner standups, sprint-ahead planning, executive sprint reviews, backlog reviews, and related agile delivery activities
• Lead or support backlog reviews, prioritization sessions, and release-planning activities
• Validate backlog accuracy, clarify operational language, identify dependencies and risks, and align candidate work with operational priorities
• Coordinate near-term actions and synchronize requirements, development, testing, usability, and fielding activities
• Support capability demonstrations, usability sessions, operational assessments, and fielding activities
• Train functional managers, requirements managers, and stakeholders on backlog prioritization, requirements documentation, and collaboration tools
• Identify issues requiring leadership awareness, decisions, advocacy, or cross-organizational coordination
• Track feature progress and ensure timely delivery
• Ensure alignment between mission goals, priorities, and technical execution
• Prepare and present capability updates, reports, and stakeholder briefings

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Product Manager – Hardware Platform

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