Directory Services Product Manager; IAM

Title: Directory Services Product Manager (IAM)

Industry: Entertainment

Duration: 10+ months

Location: Seattle, WA or Orlando, FL

Work Requirements: US Citizen, GC Holders or Authorized to Work in the U.S.

• The Enterprise Technology mission is to deliver technology solutions that align to business strategies while enabling enterprise efficiency and promoting cross-company collaborative innovation. The Enterprise Technology organization drives competitive advantage by enhancing our consumer experiences, enabling business growth, and advancing operational excellence.
• Core Systems & Platforms vision is to design, build, integrate, and deploy highly effective and stable core business systems and platforms for the Enterprise and Corporate Functions. We are responsible for advancing the Business and Enterprise Technology Strategy by creating shareholder value. We lead with a Business Architecture framework and own Core Identity & Access Management (IAM) function domain technology roadmap.
• You will have the opportunity to be part of a team responsible for supporting our Identity & Access Management transformation. Initially, you will be part of the IAM core team and its technology ecosystem of platforms and functionality that is leveraged by all segments and lines of business.
• In this role you will facilitate scope definition to execution of a range of initiatives for the IAM Transformation team. In addition, you will help manage the product backlog as well as facilitate support as we evolve the IAM transformation roadmap. You will lead one of many threads responsible for the successful execution of the overall program. These could range from business analysis, data management, testing, financial integrations, segment integrations, conversion, cutover and hyper care support.
• The candidate must be able to work at the strategic program level and at the tactical project level. The successful candidate will need to mitigate risk while delivering quality throughout the process. Flexibility and the ability to prioritize in a changing business environment will also be key. Our team culture is business/customer focused, goal-oriented, collaborative and driven to achieve results.

• Leads Agile events (Sprint planning, daily standups, backlog refinement, Monthly reviews, and retrospectives).
• Translates customer needs into actionable user stories for the team.
• Collaborates closely with the team to write user stories and manage the backlog, ensuring that each story has clear acceptance criteria.
• Identifies various dependencies (internal and external) for the user stories and epics.
• Prioritizes and manages work items in the backlog.
• Works with architects and Engineers to develop epics
• Works with the team to break down epics into user stories.
• Foster collaboration across teams and with fellow Product Owners to ensure a seamless customer journey.
• Designs and delivers high-quality, scalable and cost-effective technology solutions that meet global business requirements and conform to architectural designs and technology strategies.
• Partners to create and manage product roadmaps.
• Make recommendations on product and process decisions for complex scenarios requiring transformation from existing processes.
• Understanding interdependencies and impacts to other cast members work streams and clearly communicating these impacts.
• Oversees the requirements process; ensures traceability of high-level requirements throughout the program. Participates in data analysis activities as needed.
• Participates in the assessment of potential new opportunities, analyzing scope at a high-level and work with Business, Technology or Functional managers to agree on project approach, business cases, risk assessments, funding requirements, and resource/capability needs.
• Understand the impacts of delays and clearly define the critical path for project go live.
• Make recommendations on tasks that can be performed in parallel to reduce overall business impact.
• Ensures effective, proactive and open communications, horizontally and vertically, in order to achieve transparency and clarity of program goals, progress and issues.
• Supports and actively…