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Product Manager

SMARTHINKING is looking to hire a motivated individual as a Product Manager. A Washington, D.C.-based educational organization, SMARTHINKING provides real-time, online tutoring and learning services to high schools and colleges.

Responsibilities include:

Fully accountable and responsible for Product Life Cycle which includes development of new product concepts, enhancement of existing products, management of the overall product programs and development of product migration strategies. Specific duties include, but are not limited to, the following essential job functions:

• Meet with business stakeholders to discuss, define and capture requirements – User Research
• Consider Market conditions – Market Research e.g. SWOT analysis , Marketing Mix - Product, Price, Promotion
• Manage the Product Management documentation- Product Backlog(s), Release Plan(s), Product Roadmap(s), Release Notes and any other Requirements-level notes/sketches
• Communicate and capture requirements in a way that people can understand them e.g. Themes, Epics, User Stories, Test Cases, UI sketches, Conditions of Satisfaction etc.
• Presentation of new user stories/requirements
• Document feedback from the development team
• Acts as "Product Owner" (Scrum methodology) throughout the development lifecycle, working closely with the ScrumMaster and development, quality assurance teams to deliver a high quality solution
• Responsibility for communicating status of all stories and defects to stakeholders

The ideal candidate will have:

1. Has 3-5 years of product management experience, preferably working within the Education domain
2. Experience working with development teams that use Scrum or other agile development methodologies
3. High degree of both technical expertise and business acumen, including familiarity developing high-scale service delivery infrastructures and implications of SaaS business models.
4. Strong results-orientation combined with excellent judgment and problem solving skills; track record of product success
5. Excellent verbal and written communication skills and presentation skills; is comfortable presenting to executive staff
6. Has experience working in short, iterative development cycles to deliver incremental working software to the market
7. Expertise communicating progress at each phase of development as appropriate, including published roadmaps, user stories, sprint review presentations, burndown charts
8. Bachelors degree or higher; MBA preferred.

It is the policy of SMARTHINKING to recruit, hire, promote and transfer individuals without discrimination on the basis of race, creed, religion, sex, age, national origin, and handicap, veteran, marital or other legally protected status.

For immediate and confidential consideration, please email a cover letter and resume with references to jobs@smarthinking.com. Please put "Project Manager" in the subject heading and attach your documents in .doc, .docx, .rtf or .pdf format.

* Local candidates only, no relocation (Washington D.C. Metro Area).

Please contact SMARTHINKING Customer Support only if you are having difficulties submitting your application. Due to the large volume of applications we receive, SMARTHINKING Customer Support cannot provide any additional information such as application status, pay rate, or hiring manager contact information.