Associate Product Manager
Title – Associate Product Manager
It is an EXCITING time to be an IP Pathways employee! If you enjoy a challenge, want to be a part of an award-winning IT engineering team, and would appreciate the opportunity to work with some of the best engineering minds in the Midwest, then continue reading below and apply today!
Summary:
IP Pathways is searching for an Associate Product Manager join our exceptionally talented and growing team! If you are curious and have a constant itch to learn, this may be a great position for you.
This position is based out of our headquarters in Urbandale, Iowa. This role offers the
opportunity to work with several different technologies including in-house IP Pathways
platforms used by customers and partners. This role is a salaried, full-time position and offers a convenient and flexible work schedule as well as an excellent work-life balance.
Responsibilities for Associate Product Manager:
• Willingness to wear multiple hats on a small team
• Work hands-on to deliver new capabilities across the lifecycle of our product, from
initial release and onboarding, through day-to-day improvements
• Distinguish and communicate urgent improvements and important product features
quickly and effectively
• Proactively communicate goals to stakeholders and manage expectations of delivery
• Work with marketing and other business teams to communicate product capabilities
externally
• Develop relationships to bridge the gap between the business and developers
• Build tech alongside prolific engineers and designers, and then take a step back to
cooperate with less technical business teams in order to ensure success
• Define and drive product team culture and best practices
• Identify individual and team strengths and exploit those to elevate the team towards
our product vision
• Independently initiate research, learning, and innovation as continuous improvement of yourself for the benefit of the entire product team
Qualifications for Associate Product Manager:
• Experience in product management or requirements intake
• Experience in building rapport quickly, build team collaboration, etc.
• Provide ongoing communication and follow-up, etc.
• Experience with visual design tools to communicate ideas
• Experience working with basic front-end and back-end web technologies
• Demonstrated ability to focus on the task at hand, despite uncertainty and ambiguity
Nice to have:
• Experience with a Managed Service Provider
• Experience delivering formal and informal presentations
• Experience using Jira, Confluence, and other prioritization and knowledge management tools
• Familiarity with software development frameworks, methodologies, and best practices
• Demonstrated success decomposing a problem into addressable component parts
• Ability to envision vague and developing goals within a large time horizon
• Effective and organized executor of minute tasks for the accomplishment of large goals and initiatives
About IP Pathways:
IP Pathways provides information technology solutions to small, medium and enterprise
customers throughout the Midwest. We have offices in Urbandale, IA; Omaha, NE; and Kansas City, MO. We design, implement, monitor, support and manage private and hybrid cloud solutions.
Next Steps:
If this position sounds like the challenge you have been looking for and if you’d like to join the IP Pathways culture of being the industries finest and most technically skilled individuals who will DO WHATEVER IT TAKES FOR THE CUSTOMER, please send us your resume. Be sure to tell us why you think you’d be a great fit for the role and also IP Pathways.