The Senior Product Manager (SPM) is responsible for the overall growth and profitability of the assigned Product Line. The SPM will manage the product portfolio, ensuring that the product portfolio is competitive in a global market. In addition, the SPM is responsible for ensuring that sales teams have the necessary training and materials to sell Digital products. The SPM will also act as an executive sales representative and meet with high-level customer executives to show the value of ABS Digital product suites.

• The SPM is responsible for the assigned digital product line’s overall vision, growth, and profitability.
• Responsible for creating, communicating, and maintaining the product roadmap and backlog to ensure visibility and transparency of planned work.
• Responsible for the creation of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). Ability to communicate progress to leadership and explain why key results are/or are not being achieved.
• Manages the identification of business opportunities that can be met through the development of software.
• Make decisions and maintains a value-based prioritized backlog of opportunities for products that align with the business strategy and goals. Exercise considerable judgment to make key tradeoff decisions.
• Develops business cases and economic models backed by data. Use product discovery techniques to move from idea to prototype.
• Maintains awareness of third-party capabilities that provide viable product solutions. Negotiate contracts and manage vendor relationships.
• Partners with Design, Engineering, and Scrum Masters to work within a product team to deliver the product backlog.
• Deliver results for key product metrics and goals that support business objectives.
• Assist the product, engineering, and scrum team during regular ceremonies: feature review, grooming, sprint plans, and demos by being the voice of the customer and communicating the value behind each product and prioritization decision.
• Establishes and maintains relationships with stakeholders across the organization to communicate status, align priorities, and ensure operational support for go-to-market plans.
• Engages in constructive conversations with - and delivers tough messages when needed - to key stakeholders, including senior executives, while continually building professional and productive relationships.
• Stays current with industry trends as well as competitors’ enterprise software capabilities.
• Develops user stories granular enough to be achieved in a single sprint, elaboration of Epics and Features, creating and maintaining the product backlog, supporting user and application testing, and coordinate release activities.
• Other duties as assigned.