Lead Product Manager

Overview

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Position Summary

Midstream IT is seeking a Lead Product Manager to drive the Pipeline Product Line toward continued success. This product line consists of four teams delivering digital technologies across a critical suite of business capabilities that deliver outcomes across broad and dynamic value chains.

The Lead Product Manager ensures strategic alignment by developing and maintaining a cohesive roadmap that strengthens business capabilities and achieves targeted OKRs and business objectives. By championing efforts across products, platforms, and multiple business units, the Lead Product Manager creates a clear vision that remains focused on the most value-added initiatives and priorities, adapting as needed to accelerate and realize value.

This position places strong emphasis on digital innovation and accountability for measurable outcomes. The Lead Product Manager works collaboratively to generate and evaluate new ideas that bolster competitive advantage and improve the digital experience. The role horizontally connects business leaders, product owners, architects, and experts to plan and execute strategies, fostering relationships that translate concepts into impactful solutions.

This position belongs to a family of jobs with increasing responsibility, competency, and skill level. Actual position title and pay grade will be based on the selected candidate’s experience and qualifications.

• Develops customer and internal facing product development strategies with superior user experience across multiple verticals, including vision goals, and customer needs; accountable for complex/critical product and/or product lines, up to an entire portfolio of products.
• Has accountability for leading the development of product roadmaps, prioritizing feature releases, and aligning them with business objectives. Drives cross-functional collaboration to gather insights, prioritize initiatives, and plan releases effectively.
• Collaborates closely with portfolio teams, stakeholders, and business leaders to proactively identify and address challenges that arise during product development, ensuring successful execution of the product strategy.
• Engages senior cross functional leaders and proactively addressing and resolving issues, fostering effective communication, and promoting alignment between business and operations teams, UX design, product, engineering, analytics, and customer support teams.
• Organizes stakeholder priorities and works with teams in order to align needs with resources ensuring cadence with customer value, business value, and strategic fit. Consults with leadership, and various teams to provide value-driven priority and strategic decision-making.
• Prioritizes the product backlog, processes and release plan for multiple features for a complex or higher profile product and plans the coordination of interdependencies with scrum teams and across lines of business.
• Works with other teams, ensures team is aligned around similar goals and objectives / cross-team prioritization. Carries out ongoing analysis of product capability themes in order to support product direction.
• Delivers product innovation, definition, deliverables planning (roadmap), and design of entirely new products to deliver against team and company goals.
• Interprets and communicates product development builds on cross-departmental knowledge and puts the customer at the heart of all product changes.
• Engages senior cross functional leaders and proactively addresses and resolves issues, fostering effective communication, and promoting alignment between business and operations teams, UX design, product, engineering, marketing, analytics, and customer support teams, as needed.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, related field or equivalent work experience required.
• Product Owner certification or Product Management certification required. MBA or equivalent preferred.
• 7+ years of…